Pallor, a divine personification of paleness or fear, which was regarded by the ancient Romans as a com- panion of Mars.
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Pallorii, a title of the priests of the deitv oi pallor (q.v.).
Pal'lu (Ileb. Pallu', X*^S, disiinfjuished ; Sept. $aX\(ic» 'baWovQ), a son of Keuben, the head of a family (Palluitos) in his tribe (Gen. xlvi, 9 ["Phallu"] ; Exod. vi, 14 ; Nnmb. xxvi, 5, 8 ; 1 Chron. vi, 3). B.C. cir. 1870.
Pallu, Francois, a French ecclesiastic, was bom at Tours in Krlh, and after entering holy orders was called to places of nnich importance in the Church. He re- signed the canonicate of the church at St. Martin to enter the work of foreign missions. The Church recog- nised his fitness for such labors by making him bishop of Heliopolis, and vicar-apostolic of Fo-Kien, in China. As he opposed the Jesuits, he encountered much perse- cution, and was twice obliged to return home. He died in the midst of his work, Oct. 29, 1684, holding the posi- tion of general administrator of missions. He left a work entitled Relation ahregee des 3fissio7is et des Voy- ages des Ereques Frangais envoyes aux Royuumes de la Chine, CocJiincJiine, Tonquin, et Siani (Paris, 1862, 8vo). — Iloefer, Xouv. Biog. Generule, s. v.
Pallu, Martin, cousin of the preceding, was a noted member of the Order of the Jesuits, which so rigidly opposed Fran(^ois Pallu. JIartin was born at Tours in 1661. He took his first vows in 1679, and then began preaching. So successful were his ecclesiastical labors that in 1711 he was made director of the congregation of the Virgin. He died May 20, 1742, at Paris. He wrote, Les Qitatre Fins de I Homme (Paris, 1739, 1828, 12mo) : — Du frequent Usage des Sacraments de Penitence et d'Eucharistie (1739, 1846, 12mo) ; besides his Sermons (1744, 1750, 6 vols. r2mo). — Hoefer, iXouv. Biog. Gene- rale, 8. V.
Pal'luite (Heb. Pallid'. ^X^E, gentile from Pallu [q.v.]; Sept. 6 Sijuog tou (paXXovi), a member of the family in the tribe of Keuben, descendants of Pallu (Numb, xxvi, 5).
Palm is a frequent rendering of the Hebrew C]?, kap/i, properly something curved or hollow, and hence the interior of the hand. It is used as a general word for the hand, both in literal and figurative expressions, e. g. Ezra xxi, 16 ; 1 Sam. iv, 3, as well as for the palms only, as Lev. xviii, 26; Dan. x, 10. It is also applied, like the Latin palma, to the branches of the palm-tree, from their curved form; as Lev. xxiii, 40. But the palm-tree is denoted in Hebrew by the word tamdr, "l^Pl, from a root meaning to stand erect (Joel i, 12; Cant, vii, 9; Exod. xv, 27), and by the word TSPl, tamer, from the same root. See Hand; Palm-thke.
Palm, J. H. Van der, D.D., one of the most famous of modern Dutch theologians, was born at Rotterdam, Jul}' 17, 1763. He was educated at the nniversity in Leyden, where he was noted for purity of morals as well as for diligence in study. He was a particular favorite of the learned Schultens. After the completion of his studies he preached for some time, and gained great celebrity in the Low Countries as a pulpit orator. He possessed the Ciceronian polish, and for many years he was the Dutch orator par excellence ; men ofall profes- sions acknowledged liim as at the head of the art. He was also a jirofessor of Oriental languages and antiqui- ties at his alma m.itcr, and as such likewise excelled his fellow-coimtrymcn. He died Sept. 18, 1840. Van der Palm wrote much; but none of his works have been translated into English, and they are now but in lim- ited circulation even in his own country. His biog- raphy, with ten of his sermons, has been given an English dress by one of our most valued contributors, the Rev. J. P. Wcstervelt, D.I)., under the title Life and Character of J. II. Van der Palm, D.D., sketched by Nicholas Betts, D.D. (N. Y. 1865, 12mo). The ser- mons in this volume exhibit an accuracy of thought and expression rarely met with, and also contain passages of
poetic beauty which one would scarcely expect to find in sermons written amid the fogs of Holland. The style of thought is so thoroughly English that either the work of translation has been done with remarkable skill, or else the character of the Dutch mind must re- semble the English much more closely than is generally believed to be the case. (J. II. \V.)