vols.): — Wissenschnfdiche Aphorismen der Jcathol, Dog- matik (ibid. 1816). See Winer, Hdndb. der theol. Li- terutiir, i, 306; ii, 800; Kegensburger Real- Encyklop. s. v. (B. P.)
Tha'ra (Luke iii, 34). See Teraii.
Thar'ra (Vulg. Thara, for the Greek fails here), a corrupt form fomid in the Apocryphal addition to the book of Esther (xii, 1) for Tkkesh (q. v.).
Thar'shish, a less exact form of Anglicizing the word Tarshish (q. v.), applied in the A. V. to {a) the place (1 Kings x, 22; xxii, 48) and (h) the man (1 Chron. vii, 10).
Thas'si (Qaacri, Gairaif; Vulg. Thnsi, ffassii), the surname of Simon the son of Mattathias (I Mace, ii, 3). The derivation of the word is uncertain. Michaelis suggests "^T^""!!!! (Chald.), " the fresh grass springs up," i. e. " the spring is come," in reference to the tranquillity first secured during the supremacy of Simon (Grimm, Comment, adloc). This seems very farfetched. Winer ( 7?«(^(i'6. s. V. " Simon" ) suggests a connection with DDri,y«ri»e?'e, as Grotius («ci loc.) seems to have done before him. In Josephus (.4«/. xii, 6, 1) the surname is written Mar^j/f! v. r. 9ac)/y(.', HaSZ/f. — Smith. See Maccabee.
Thauniatopoei (^avpaToiroioi), a term applied by the early tireek writers to those who pretended to work miracles by the power of magic, such as James and Jambres, Simon Magus, and Apollonius Tyanaeus. See Bingham, Christ. Antiq. bk. xvi, ch. v, § 7.
Thaumaturgy. See Miracles, Ecclesiastical.
Thaxter, Joseph, a Unitarian minister, was born at Hingham, ]\Iass., April 23, 1742. He g;^aduated at Harvard College in 1768, ex])ecting to enter the medi- cal profession, but, deciding upon the ministry, he stud- ied theology under Dr. Gay, and began to preach in 1771. On Jan. 23, 1776, he received a commission as chaplain in the army, and probably held that positi(m for two or three years. He was installed pastor of the Church in Edgarton, Martha's Vineyard, in 1780. The last Sunday that he preached he fell in the pulpit, was assisted home, and dieil July IS, 1827. I\Ir. Thaxter acted as chaplain at the laying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill monument, July 17, 1825. His only publication, so far as known, was a Catechism for Sab- bath-schools, See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, viii, 83.
Thayer, Elihu, D.D., a Congregational preacher, was born at Braintree, Mass., March 29, 1747. He was, as a child, very forward in his studies, having read the Bible through three times at the age of seven years. He entered Princeton College, one year in advance, in 1766, and graduated in 1769. His theological studies were prosecuted partly under Rev. John Searle, Stone- ham, and partly under Rev. i\Ir. Weld, Braintree. Li- censed to preach, he supplied for nearly a year the church in Newburyport, He was then (Dec. 18, 1776) set apart to take the pastoral care of the Church in Kingston, N. H. He was chosen president of the New Hampshire Missionary Society in 1801, and continued to hold the office till i81 1. He died April 3, 1812. A volume of his Sei-mons was published after his death (1813. 8vo). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, ii, 104.
Thayer, Nathaniel, D.D., a Unitarian minister, was born at Hampton. N. II., July 11, 1769, studied at the Phillips Academy, Exeter, and graduated from Har- vard College in 1789. He immediately took charge of the grammar-school in IMedford, and at the same time commenced the study of theology under Dr. Osgood. At tlie end of a year he returned to Cambridge, and continued to study under Dr. Tappan, divinity professor in the college. He held the jiosition of tutor in col- lege for about a year, and, being licensed to preach, spent the greater part of a year at Wilkesbarre, Pa., supplying a congregation there. On his return to Mas-
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sachusetts, lie preached to the New South Church, Bos- ton, and at Doreliester. lie was ordained and installed colleague pastor of'the Church in Lancaster, Oct. 9, 1793. The pastor, Hev. Timothy Harrington, lived about two years, and at his death i\Ir. I'hayer succeeded to the sole charge of the Church. He was a man whose services were greatly esteemed and frequently employed; he was a memhor of no loss than 150 ecclesiastical coun- cils; preached the Artillery Election sermon in 1798, and the annual sermon before the Legislature of Massa- chusetts in 1823. lie received his D.D. in 1817 from Harvard. When Lafayette made his tour through the I'nited States in 1825, jNIr. Tliayer addressed him in be- half of t lie people of Lancaster. Being somewhat debili- tated, he, in June, 1810, set out to travel. He reached Kochester on the 22dof tiiat month, retired to rest at his usual hour, and died at two o'clock the next morning. His remains were carried back to Lancaster. Mr. Thayer published a ninnber of sermons anil discourses, for a list of which see Sprague, Annah oj the Atiier. I'ulpit, viii, 24G sq.
Theandiic Operation (QiavcpiKt) trkpynn), a theological term (irst used in the 7th century, and in- tended to express tliat unity of operation in the two natures and the two wills of our Lord Jesus Christ by which they act as the nature and will of one invisible Person, (Jod and man. It was called a novel term by the Council of Latcran (A.I). 049), and discouraged as such in ils I5th canon, which speaks of the " heretics" who had introduced it {Tt)v tw' avTij Qictv^piKy Kaivi)i> pi]aiv), which makes it seem likely that it has been used by some of the Monothelite sect in justification of their ])rinciples. .lohn Damascene (^De Orthod. Fide, cli. Ixvi) thus explains the term : " The Theandric oper- ation, then, siguilies this, that when God became man both his human operation was divine, that is, deified, and not void of participation in his divine operation, and his divine operation was not void of participation in his human operation, but either is contemplated in connection with the other. And this manner is styled ' periphrasis' when a person embraces any two things by one expression; for as we call the divided cauterizing and tlie iiifiamcd incision of a heated knife the same thing, but call the incision one operation and the cau- terizing another — calling them operations of different natures, the cauterizing of fire and the incision of iron — so, also, speaking of one Theandric operation of Christ, we understand of the two natures to be two — the divine that of his divinity, and the human that of his humani- ty." See Blunt, Lid. of Theol. s. v.