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moral, or social character found in him a cordial sup- porter. He died Jan. 2G, 1873, in Fayetteville, N. Y. See Appleton's Annual Cycloji. 1873, p. 560.
Noble, Mark, an English divine, was born about the middle of the 18th century, and flourished from 1784 as rector of Barming, in Kent, where he died, JMay if), 1827. He published Memoirs of the House of Medici (1797). Lives of the English Regicides (1798), and other secular historical works. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a contributor to the Archtsologia. See Appleton's Annual Cyclop. 1873, p.
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Noble, Oliver, an American divine of some note, was born at Hebron, Conn., about 1742, and was edu- cated at Yale College, class of 1757. He was ordained to the work of the ministry in 1759, and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Coventry, Conn., where he remained until 1761. In 1762 he accepted a call to the pastorate at Newburj', INIass., and in 1783 resigned this place to accept the same position at Newcastle, N. H., where he labored until his death in 1792. He published a discourse on Church Music (1774), and on The Boston Massaor (1775).
Noble, Samuel, an English Swedenborgian min- ister, was born in London in 1779. In his early life he practiced engraving, and earned quite a reputation for artistic skill. Brought to a knowledge of Swedenbor- gianism, he became a most enthusiastic adherent and advocate, and about 1820 entered the ministry. He preached with much success, but is noted especially by his writings. He died in 1858. He is the author of a work on The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures, ami the Principles of their Composition (Lond. 1828). The author's object is to meet the objections urged against the divine origin of the sacred volume. The work con- sists of six lectures, greatly enlarged ; originally deliv- ered at Albion Hall, London. Like other Swedenbor- gian writers, he contends for a double sense of God's Word, founded on the immutable relations of things natural to things spiritual. A subsequent publication of his, entitled An Appeal in behalf of the Doctrines of the NeiD Church (2d ed. 1838), is made up of another course of lectures, embodying pretty much the same views. He also published Important Doctrines of the Christian Religion (1846, 8vo) : — Divine Law of the Ten Commandments (1848, 8vo) : — Book of Judges (1856, 8vo) : — a volume of his Sermons (1848) and a volume of Lectures, and translated into English Swedenborg's Beaven and Hell. (J. H. W.)
Nobleman is the rendering of the A. V. at John iv, 4G, of /3a(TiX(Kc)c, which is somewhat various in sig- nification: 1, descended from a king; 2, one belonging to the court; 3, a soldier of the king, in which sense it often occurs in Josephus. The second signification seems, however, to be the prevalent one; and the Greek interpreters also favi.r it. See Robinson, iV.-T'. Lex. s. V. Mlinter found it likewise in inscriptions. The Syriac has here "a royal servant;" the Ethiopic, "a royal house-servant." This person was, therefore, probably of the court of Herod Antipas, who reigned over Galilee and Pera?a (Tholuck, Commentnr zum Johan. iv, 46). Some writers have conjectured that this "nobleman" was Chuza, Herod's steward, whose wife afterwards became an attendant on Jesus (Luke viii, 3), and is thought to liave been converted on this occasion ; but of this there is no evidence.
Nocca, a false god of the ancient Goths, Getcs, etc. He is tlie same as Neptune of the Greeks, and was sup- posed to preside over tlie sea. Wormius relates that in some parts of Denmark they call him Nicken, and pre- tended that he appeared sometimes in the sea and in deep rivers, like a sea-monster having a human head, especiallj' to those unhappy wretches who were in im- minent danger of being drowned. They said likewise that persons drowned, being taken out of the water.
were found to have their noses red, as if some one had squeezed their faces and sucked the blood, which they ascribed to Nocca. See Broughton, Hist, of Religions, s. V.
Noceti, Carlo, an Italian litterateur, was born about 1695 in Pontremoli. Admitted among the Jes- uits, he taught theology in the Roman College, and in 1756 became coadjutor of P. Turano in the functions of penitentiary of St. Peter and examiner of bishops. He cultivated with success Latin poetry, and held relations with several savans and litterateurs of his time. He died in Rome in 1759. We have of his works, Eclogce, printed with those of Rapin (Rome, 1741, 8vo) : — De Iride et Aurora boi-eali carmina (ibid. 1747, 4to) ; this edition, given by Boscovich, has been reproduced with- out the notes in the Poemata didascalica of P. Oudin ; Roucher, in his Mois, has imitated the second of these poems: — Veritas vindicaia (ibid, and Lucca, 1753, 2 vols.) ; this is a criticism upon the Theologia Christiana of P. Coucina, a Dominican monk, who had declared war against the probabilism and remissness of the doctrines of the Jesuits: — some Latin and Italian Poesies in a collection of the Academy of the Arcades. See Budik, Hist, des Poetes Latins depuis de la Renaissance ; Tira- hoschi, Stoiia della letter. Ital. — Iloefer, Kouv. Biog. Generate, xxxvili, 156.