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W'ith examples like this before us, it would be ab- surd to doubt that John (not greatly removed in time from the Christian forgers of the Sibylline verses) in- tended some name as an answer to the number 6GG. The true answer must be settled by the Apocalyptic commentators. Most of the fathers supposed, even as far back as Ireufeus, the name Acituvoq to be indicated. A list of the other very numerous solutions, proposed in different ages, may be found in Elliott's Ilurie Apocu- lypticce (iii, 222-234), from which we have quoted sev- eral of these instances. — Smith; Kitto. See Numbku OF THE Beast.
Riddle, John, D.D., a minister of the Associate Reformed Cliurch, was born in Monaghan County, Ire- land, in 1758. He graduated at the University of Glasgow April 10, 1782, and entered upon the study of theology, under the supervision of John Brown, of Had- dington. He was licensed to preach June 14, 1788, and was installed pastor of the congregation in Donaghlo- ney. County Down, Nov. 18. In this connection he re- mained till the spring of 1794. when he came to the Ufnited States. In August of the same year he was in- stalled at Robinson Run as pastor of the united congre- gations of Robinson Run and Union, in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. After a few j-ears the congregations so in- creased that, at his request, he was released from Union, and settled for the whole of his time at Robinson Rim. Here he continued to labor the remainder of his life, and died, after a month's illness, Sept. 4. 182!t. Dr. Riddle took an active part in the management of the affairs of the Associate Reformed Church, which was in its infancy when he became a member of it. He was among those who opposed the proceedings of the (ien- eral Assembly Reformed Synod, and who finally, in 1820, resolved to constitute themselves into an inde- pendent synod, to be known as the "Associate Reformed Synod of the West." He was a close student, argumen- tative iu his preaching, and an excellent pastor. None of the productions of his pen were ever printed, though he left behind a large MS. on the subject of Reliyioiis Covenanting, which, had he lived a little longer, it is thought he would have published. See Sprague, An- nals of the Amer. Pulpit, ix, 57.
Riddle, Joseph Esmond, an English clergy- man, of St. Kdnumd's Hall, Oxford, was curate of Har- row, and subsequently incumlient of St, Pliilip's, Lcck- hampton. His death occurred Aug, 27, 18,59. He was the author of manv works, both theological aud educa-
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tional, among which are, Luther and his Times (Lond. 1837, \2mo) :— Kcclesiuslical Chronology, or Annuls of the Christian Church (ibid. 1840, 8\o) ^. — ^fanual of Christian Antiquities (ibid. 1839, 8vo; 2d ed. 1843):— Natural /listory of Injidelity (eight Hampton Lectures; 1852, 8vo) :— besides Sermons, Manuals, etc. :— also a Complete Km/lish- Latin and Latin -Enr/ligh Dictionary (ibid. 183G, 8vo), of which several editions have been f lublished. See ^Ulibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A u- thorg, s. V. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bihliog. s. v.
Riddoch, James, a minister of the Episcopal Church, Scotland, <luring the last century, was born at (Jrange, Bamffshire. lie was first minister of a chapel at Glasgow, and afterwards became one of the ministers of St. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, in 1757, in which charge he continued twenty years. His sermons are distin- guished for pathos, persuasion, eloquence, and piety. He published Sermons on Several Subjects, etc. (Lond. 1799, 3 vols. 8vo; a fifth edition was published in 1831, 2 vols. 8vo). See Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s. v.
Rideout, Uriel, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born in Bowdoin, Me., July 2G, 181G. He joined the Maine Conference in 1846, and labored until 1849, when he located for the purpose of attending the Concord Biblical Institute. He resumed his place in conference in 1850, and continued in active service until the session of 1868, when he received a supernu- merary relation. After an illness of ten days, he died at Cape Elizabeth Ferry Aug. 30, 1868. His labors wero characterized by zeal and discretion, by ability and ministerial fidelity. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, 1869, p. 141."
Rider (33i"i, rokib). It is uncertain at what time, or in what place, horses were first used for riding, but there is every reason to believe that it was not until a period long after their having been employed for draught. In- stead of cavalry, the Egyptians and Babylonians, and the Greeks of the Homeric age, used war-chariots, the drivers of which are in the earlier books of the Old Test, called '■ riders," as in Miriam's song of triumph for the overthrow of the Egyptian host (Exod. xv). The book of Job, however, clearly intimates a " rider," in our acceptation of the word, in the description of the chase of the ostrich: "She scorneth the horse and his rider" (Job xxxix, 18). White asses were used as steeds by the nobles in the land under the Judges, and instead of these we find that mules were used in the age of the Kings, horses being almost exclusively re- served for chariots. The Persians appear to have been the first Oriental nation that discovered the superiority of a flexible body of cavalry over a cumbrous and un- wieldy corps of chariots. Many of their early victories may fairly be ascribe<l to tlieir skill in horsemanship. On the other hand, the Jewish armies were always defi- cient in cavalry, and their alliances with foreign states were generally designed to obtain a supph' of auxiliary horse. It is not one of the least proofs of Solomon's po- litical wisdom that he exerted himself to sui)ply this national deficiency. See Hoksk.