Port-Royal (q.v.) community, the closing of the abbey in the October following, and the removal of its inmates accompanied by circumstances of great cruelty, though he himself had long befriended the I'ort-Royalists, and was really in sympathy Avith them. That he ordered this work of destruction simply from weakness, he ac- knowledged himself in after-life ; and the memory of these unjust deeds no doubt plunged him into great depths of anguish. In solemn testimony of his repent- ance he went to the ruins of Port-Royal, that he might there mourn as a penitent, exclaiming, '-I will see my enormous sin in all its horrors ! Here in the midst of this miserable devastation, here will I unburden my mind" (comp. Tregelles, J«»<sp?«V«, p. 40 sq.). Nothing that Noailles could now do to repair the injury of liis for- mer acts would he leave undone; but alas tiiat his first work was so well done that it could never be changed for better or for worse ! He had lived to please the master who gave him bread, and he had wronged those who had hoped to find in him a friend and protector ; once their life destroj-ed, he had not the power to resus- citate them, and there remained for hira only a hoary age, full of remorse for unjust acts and an inconsistent life. Jervis has well summed up Noailles's life and work : " His moral character Mas stainless, his piety unques- tionable, his pastoral zeal universally acknowledged; but he was of an irresolute temper, and deficient in in- tellectual depth and solidity of judgment. He labored, consequently, under great disadvantages as an adminis- trator" {Hist. Ch. of France [Lond. 1872, 2 vols. 8vo], ii, 89). Cardinal Noailles died May 4, 1729. See S. Pere Avrigny, Mimoires chronoloyiqves et dogmatiques (Paris, 1730) : Bausset, Histoire de Fhielon (ibid. 1808); Picot, Jlemoires pour servir a Vhist. eccUsiust. pen- dant le 18we siede (180G and 1815); Journal de Vuhhe Dorsanne (Rome, 1753); Villefore, Anecdotes ou me- moires sur la constitution Unigenitus (Paris, 1730) ; Journal historiqiie dii r'egne de Louis XV (ibid. 1766, 12mo) ; Baron d'Espagnac, Hist, de Maurice, comte de Saxe (1775, 2 vols. 12mo); Le Bas, Diet, encyclope- dique de la France; Le Moniteur universel (from the 7th to the 9th Thermidor, an. ii, No. 310) ; Voltaire, Pre- cis du r'egne de Louis XV, ch. Ixvii ; Chronologie mili- taire, v, 390 ; Waroquier, Tableau histor. de la noblesse de France, p. 274; Guettee, Hist, de I'Eglise de France, xi, 144 sq. ; Jervis, Hist. Ch. of France, vol. ii (see In- dex) ; De Felice, Hist. Ch. of France, p. 350 sq. ; Wes- senberg, Gesch. der Kirchencersammlungen, iv, 348, 402 ; Cartwright, Hist. Papal Conclaves, p. 225-228; Migne, Nouv. Encyclop. theologique, iii, 93; Gallia Chi'istiana, vol. i, viii, ix; Saint-Simon, Histoire de Port Royal. (J. H. W.)
No-Amon. The manner in which this ancient city is mentioned in the several passages of the Bible is deserving of the notice of the student of Scripture geography. The first passage in which it occurs is Jer. xlvi, 25, " I will punish the multitude of No ,-" "ii^X'bx NS73) el Avion min-N6, literally " to the Amon from No" (Sept. Tov 'A/.ti.iuj'i' Tuv v'luv avrijc; Vulg. super tumul- tu7n Alexa7idria:'),^vhere the reference seems to be rather to the Egyptian deity A mon, who was worshipped at No, than to the people of that citj^ (which would make '|T2X = "T2n, "multitude"). The next passage is Ezek. XXX, 14, 15, 16, " I will execute judgments in No" (XIS, be-No ; iv AioawoXn ; in A lexandria') ; " I will cut off the multitude of No" (X3 'p'CilTN, eth hamon No; TO TrXij^oc 'Mip(pt(i>c; multitudinem Alexandrice) ; "A'b shaU be rent asunder" (XD, No; tv AioffrroXii; Alex- andria). The different rendering in the Sept. here is remarkable. Memphis was identical with the Nojih of the Bible. The Hebrew word rendered "multitude" in ver. 15 is different from that in Jeremiah; perhaps it may be a corruption of ^1/«oh. Diospolis was the Greek equivalent oi No- Amnion, and identical with Thebes, The last passage is Nahum iii, 8, and is very important,
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not mt^rely as giving the full name of the city, but also describing its position. It is thus rendered in the A. V., " Art thou better than iwpulous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?" " Populous No" is in Hebrew ',i^i< X3, Nu-A mon (Sept. fupica 'Ajxi.iwv; Vulg. Alexandria jiopulorum) , that is, " No of Amon," in which Amon was the supreme deity, and of which he was protector. See Amon.
Critics are not agreed as to the meaning of the word No ; but it would seem from this passage that the trans- lators of the Sept., who were them- selves resident in Egypt, regarded it as equivalent to the Egyptian noz, that is, axolivoe, "a measuring- line," and then = jU£p(V, "a part or portion" (see tJesen. T/ies. p. 835). The second part of the first form is the name of amen, the chief divin- ity of Thebes, mentioned or al- luded to in connection with this place in the passage of Jeremiah, and perhaps also alluded to in that of Ezekiel. The second part of the Egyptian sacred name of the city, ha -amen, "the abode of Amen," is the same. But how are we to explain the use of A'b alone? It thus occurs not only in He- brew, but also in the language of the Assyrian inscriptions, in which it is written Ni'a, according to Sir Henry Rawlinson (" Illustrations of Egyptian History and Chronol- ogy," etc.. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. 4WUJU, [2d ser.] vii, ICC). Sir Henry