Storch, NiciioLAS.founderof the religious doctrines of the Analjaptists (q. v.), was born at Stolberg, Saxony, about 1490, and was therefore a young man when Luther commenced preaching the doctrines of the Reformation. He went much further than Luther in proscribing an- cient authorities, for he denounced all external docu- ments and traditions whatsoever, and, accepting no book but the Kiiile, lie taught his disciples to renounce the study of literature ami theology, and trust to the spirit of (iod to enlighten their understandings. He insisted, also, on the necessity of rebapiism when that ceremony had been performed in infancy, on the jirinciplc that it was an act of faith and could not otherwise be valid. Neither Calvin nor Luther could tolerate these doctrines, and they became still more hateful to the princes of (ier- tnany when political ends and the doctrine of the com- munity of goods were associated with them. For years previous the poor half-starved and half-naked serfs of < iermany had been accustomed to assemble in great num- bers, and, with " Bread and Cheese" inscribed on t heir
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banners, had threatened the complete overthrow of the existing state of society. Storch gained many proselytes in Suabia, Thiiringia, etc., wliicli fact led to niucli blood- shed; and at length the elector of Saxony, at the press- ing instance of Luther, banished their spiritual guide, in addition to executing their political, in the person of Miinzer, in 1525. Storch was a man of the roost ami- able disposition ; but the Baptists of the present day deny all connection with his party, to avoiil the odium belonging to these scenes of turbulence. He died in his retreat at Munich in 1530.
Storchenau, Sigismund, a (ierman Jesuit, was born in 17ol at Hollenburg. In 1747 he joined the So- ciety of Jesus, lectured at the University of Vienna on philosophy, and suffered himself to be sometimes influ- enced by the principles of modern philosophy. When his order was abolished he retired to Klagenfurt, where he died in 1797. He wrote, rnstitntiones Loyicm et Mefa- physicm (Vienna, 1769-71) : — Philosophy of Reliyion (Augsb. 1773-81, 7 vols.). See Regensburyer Conversa- tions-Lexikon, s. V. (B. P.)
Store. See Deposit.
Store-city (riDSpia "i"'", ir misl-endih, city of magazines, 1 Kings ix, 19; 2 Chron. viii, 4, 6; xvi, 4; xvii, 12; '' treasure -city," Exod. i, 11; "store -house," 2 Chron. xxxii, 28), a place of deposit, or entrepot, for merchandise. See Stoke-house.
Store-house ("iHiX, otsdr, 1 Chron. xxvii, 25; Psa. xxxiii, 7 ; Mai. iii, 10, a treasury, as elsewhere usu- ally rendered; CDX, ascim, a recejiiade for provisions, Deut. xxviii, 8; " barn," Prov. iii, 10; the modem mat- murat, usuallj' underground in the East; D12N/5, inaa- bus, Jer. 1, 26, a granary ; n33p'3, miskendh, a maga- zine, Exod. i, 11 ; 2 Kings xxxii, 28; elsewhere "store- city ;" raiitiov, Luke xii, 24 , Ecchis. xxix, 12, elsewhere "closet"). According to Gen. xli, 48, 49, Joseph built store-houses in Egypt, in which he laid up the super- abundance of corn against the years of dearth. From the monuments we learn that such store-houses were common. The form of one of those ancient granaries is exhibited in a painting of the tomb of Kotei at Beni- Hassan. It consists of a double range of structures re-
I. hientification of the Sc7-)ptiiral AUiisinris. — The Sept. does not seem to have recognised the stork under the Hebrew term ni^On. otherwise it could scarcely have missed the obvious rendering of irE^apync, or have adopted in two instances the phonetic representation of the original daica (whence, no doubt, Hesych. dati;, ti- £og ofM'fOv). It is singular that a bird so conspicuous and familiar as the stork must have been both in Egypt and Palestine should have escaped notice by the Sept., but there can be no doubt of the correctness of the ren- dering of the A. V. The Hebrew term is derived from the root ion, whence lOn, "kindness," from the ma- ternal and filial affection of which this bird has been in all ages the type.
There are two kinds of stork, the Ciconia alba and the C. nigra. In Egypt the two species collectively are called auaseh, the white, more particularly, belari ; in Arabic uikid, zadig (?), abiihist, heklek, hegleg, and haji luyltig, the three last mentioned expressing the pe- culiar clatter which storks make with their bills, and haji, or pilgrim, denoting their migratory habits. This quality several of the Western names likewise indicate, while our word stork, albeit the Greek oropy/; implies natural affection, is an appellation which extends to the Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, German, Hungarian, Lettish, and Wallachian languages, and is presumed originally to have been stor eger, i. e. migrating heron, with which the Greek agrees in sound but has no affinity of mean- ing, though it corroborates the intar()retation of chasi- diih in the Hebrew, similarly iniidying affcciion, i>iety, mercy, and gratitude. This nan)e results from a belief, general through all ancient Asia, in the attachment of these birds to each other ; of the young towards the old, and of the parents towards their young. But the latter part of this opinion is alone verified by the moderns, in cases where the mother bird has perished while endeav- oring to save her progeny. This occurred in the great fire at Delft, and more recently at the battle of Fried- land, where, a fir-tree with a stork's nest in it being set on fire by a howitzer-shell, the female made repeated efforts to extricate her young, and. at length, as in the other case, was seen to sink in the flames. Without, therefore, admitting the exaggerated reports or the pop- ular opinions of the East respecting the stork, enough is shown to justify the identi- fication of chasidah with that bird, notwithstanding that some learned commentators have referred the word to her- on, and to several other birds, tliough none upon investiga- tion are foinid to unite in the same degree file qualities which are ascribed to the species in Lev. xi, 19; Deut. xiv, 18; Job xxxix, 13; Psa. civ, 17; Jer. viii, 7 ; Zcch. v, 9.