Pa'giel (Heb. Pof/iel', ^X'^i'^Q, chance or event of God; Sept. <I>rty(f;/\, Numb, i, 13; elsewhere $ay£>y\), son of Ocran, and chief man of the tribe of Asher at the time of the Exode, appointed with others to com- mand in war (Numb, i, 13; ii, 27; vii, 72, 77; s, 26). B.C. 1658.
Pagit (or Paget), Ephraim, an English divine, son of Eusebius, was born in London in 1585, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He obtained the living of St. Edmund the King, in Lombard Street, London, of which he was deprived at the Kebellion. He retired to Deptford, where he died in 1647. Pagit was noted as a linguist. He wrote Christianoyraphia, or a Description of the Sundrie Sorts of Christians in the World not subject to the Pope, etc. (London, 1635) : — llceresior/raphia, or a Description of the Heresies of Later Times (1645) : — Sermon on St. Mattheiv vii, 15 (1645). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, S. V. ; Hook, Eccles. Biog. s. v.
Pagit (or Paget), Eusebius, an English Puritan minister and writer, was born at Crawford, in North- amptonshire, about 1542. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. After taking holy orders in the Church Establishment he became successively vicar of Orundle and rector of Langton, in his native county; afterwards he removed to the living of Kilhampton, in Cornwall ; and lastly to St. Anne and St. Agnes, London, in 1604. He died in 1617. He published some sermons and the- ological works, of which the following are the best known : A Ifarmonie upon the Three Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Lulce (London, 1584), translated from Calvin : — The History of the Bible, briefly collected by way of Question and A nswei; printed at the end of several old editions of the Bible. See A then. Oxon. ; Brook's Puri- tans ; Fuller's Worthies ; Lloyd's Worthies ; Strj'pe's W hit gift ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. ; Thomas, Diet, of Biog. and Mythol. s. v. ; Hook, Eccles. Biog. s. v.
Paglia, Francesco, an Italian painter, was bom at Brescia in 1636. He was a scholar of Guercino, whose manner he imitated. Lanzi says he was excellent in laying on his colors, admirable in his chiaroscuro, but he displayed little spirit, and his proportions were fre- quently too long and slender. His best work is an altar-piece in the church of La Caritfi. He excelled in portraits, which are distinguished for truth of char- acter, great purity of color, and uncommon relief. Or- landi says he was living in 1700 ; others, that he died about 1700; and Zani, that he died in 1713. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rfs, ii, 642.
Pagni, Bp:nedetto, an Italian painter, was a native of Pescia, and studied in the school of Giulio Komano at Rome. He accompanied that master to IMantua, where he assisted him in his works. He acquired con- siderable distinction as a historical painter, and exe- cuted some works for the churches. Lanzi says his picture of the Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo, in the church of St. Andrea, at Mantua, is worthy of the school of his master. Many pictures are claimed to have been executed by him in his native city, but Lanzi thinks that the Marriage at Cana, in the collegiate church, and the fac^ade of the house of the Pagni family, are the only genuine ones. Zani says he painted from 1525 to 1570. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rts, ii, 642, 643.
Pagninus, Sanctes, an Italian monk, noted as a Hebraist and excgete, by Buxtorf called "Vir lingua- rum Orientalium peritissimus," was born at Lucca in 1466. He became a Dominican in 1486, and was the pupil of Savonarola and others famous in tlieologj^ and Oriental learning at Fiesoli, where his rapid progress won the esteem of cardinal de Medici, afterwards Leo X. Having received holy orders, Pagninus devoted himself to the duties of the pulpit, and the persuasive earnest- ness of his preaching made many celebrated converts.
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Under Leo X he was professor of a scliool of Oriental literaliirc, fouiuled by that pontiff at Kome : but after Leo's decease he accompanied the cardinal-legate to Avignon, and subsequently removed to Lyons, where he became a zealous opponent of the Keformed religion, and was the means of founding a hospital for the plague. He died there iu 1541, honored and regretted by rich and poor.
The learned works of Pagninus have been higlily esteemed by some, severely criticised by others. (1.) He published at Lyons, in 1528, Veieris et nori Testa- nienii nova iranslatio, which had been the labor of thirty years, and was to have been published at the expense of Leo X had he lived to see it finished. In the preface he details the care which he had taken to make the work perfect. It is the first Latin Bible in which the verses of each chapter are distinguislied and numbered as in the original, and is remarkable for the extreme closeness with which the Latin is made to fol- low and take the shape of the Hebrew idiom. Kicliard Simon charges him with this as a fault, saying that it not only makes his language obscure and barbarous, but sometimes changes the sense of the original. Ser- vctus published a folio edition of this work, which he infected with his own errors, at Lyons in 1G42. That of Arias Montanus, in the Antwerp Polyglot, exagger- ates the peculiarities of his Latin style. Still the edi- tions of 1599 and lGlO-13, in 8vo, which give an inter- linear and word-for-word translation of the Hebrew Avith the vowel-points, is to this day the most conven- ient Hebrew Bible for beginners. (2.) His Thesaurus Linguce Sanctce (Lyons, 1529, in folio) is much esteem- ed. The folio edition of Geneva, 1614. b}' J. Mercier and A. Cavalleri, is verj- inferior, and in many places corrupt. There is also a Paris edition, in 4to, of 1548. (3.) An abridgment of the Thesaurus in 8vo, with the title Thesauri Pagnini Epitome, was printed at Ant- werp in 161G, and often reprinted. He also published (4.) Isagor/es sen inU-oductionis ad sacrus litteras liber Wilis (Lyons, 1528, 4to; ibid. 153G, fol.). (5.) Ilehrai- canim institutionum libri quaiuor ex Ruhhi David Kim- chi priore parte fere transcripti (ibid. 1526; Paris, 1549), both 4tos. (6.) An abridgment of this gram- mar, also in 4to, was published at Paris in 1546 and 1556. (7.) Catena Argentea in Pentateuchuni (Lyons, 1536, folio), in six volumes. This is a collection of the comments of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin writers on the five books of Moses. He also produced several other learned Avorks. See Ilistoire des hommes illuslres de Vordre de St. Dominique, by Touron ; Bibliotheca Sancta, by Sixtus of Siena. — Kitto, s. v.