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niches for lamps: the trailing boughs of the bushes above hang down pictures(juely, and half cover the cn- i ranee. ^Vitllin are three kokim. or cells, and through the central one it is possible to creep into a second cham- ber witii only a single grave. C)ther tombs exist far- ther east, one having a sculptured facade; but the tomb described is the one popularly supposed to be that of Joshua (Conder, ut svp. p. 228). See Joshua.
Tim'nite (Heb. Timni', ''3'2ri; Sept. Qai.iva^dloc V. r. Ba^ti'i). a designation of Samson's son's father-in- law, from his residence in Timnah (Judg. xv, 6).
Ti'mon (Ti'/jon', a common (Jreek name), the fourth named of the seven, commonly called "deacons" [see Dkacon], who were appointed to act as almoners on the occasion of complaints of partiality being raised by t he Llellenistic Jews at Jerusalem (Acts vi, 5). A.D. 29. l.ike his colleagues, Tinion bears a Greek name, from which, taken together with the occasion of their ap- pointment, it has been inferred with much probability that the seven were themselves Hellenists, Nothing further is known of him with certainty; but in the Sy- iKipsis de Vila et Moiie Prophefciritin, Aposfolornm, ct Jfiicipulnrum Domini, ascribed to Dorotheus of Tyre (fiibl. Max. Patnim, iii, 140), we are informed that he was one of the "seventy-two" disciples (the catalogue of whom is a mere congeries of New-Test, names), and that he afterwards became bishop of Bostra (? " Bostra Arabum"), Avhere he suffered martyrdom by lire. — Smith.
Tiniotheans, a section of the Alexandrian iVIo- i#)physites (q. v.), so named from Timotheus /Elurus, a bitter ojjponent of the canons of Chalcedon. During the patriarchate of Proterius, Timotheus established schismatical asseiTiblies in Alexandria, having persuad- ed a few bishops and monks to join him in his secession from the communion of the patriarch. On the death of the cinperor JIarcian, he succeeded in obtaining con- secration from two heretical and exiled bishops, and Proterius was murdered by' the partisans of the usurp- ing patriarch on (iood-Friday, A.D. 457. After main- taining his position for three years, he was banished to the ancient Cherson, near Sebastopol, but was recalled by the emperor Basiliscus, and took possession of the patriarchal throne of Alexandria in 470. The opinions of Timotheus and his party went the full length of ex- treme Eutychianism. In some fragments of a work of his which still exist (Jlai, Nova Collect, vii, 35, 277, 304, 305), he is found saying that the nature of Christ is one only — that is, divine; that in the first starting-point of concey)tion by his mother he had one substance with biunau nature, liut that he was not born of the Blessed Virgin in the ordinary wav of birth, or her virginity could not have been preserved. This form of Eutychi- anism thus repudiated the reality of Christ's human nature, and was practically iilentical with the opinion of the Docetffi. See Blunt, Did. of Sects, s. v.
Timo'thelis (Ti^ui^foc, honoring God, a frequent name in (!reek and Koman history; see Athen. x, 419 ; xiv, ti2(); Eivy, xlii, 67; Pliny, vii, 57; xxxiv, 19, 34: xxxvi, 4, 9), the name of three Jews (such, at least, by association).
1. A " captain of the Ammonites" (1 Mace, v, G), who was defeated on several occasions bv Judas Maceabicus (ver. 6, II , 34-44). B.C. 1 64. He was probably a (Jreek adventurer (comp. .losephus. Ant. xii, 8. 1) who had gained the leadership of the tribe. Thus Josephus (ibid, xiii, 8, 1, quoted by (5rimm, On 1 Mace, v, 6) men- tions one '■ Zeno, surnamed Cotylas, who was despot of i;aliliah" in the time of Johannes Hyrcaiuis.
2. in 2 Mace, a leader nameil Timotheus is mention- ed as having taken part in the invasion of Nicanor (viii, 30; ix, 3). B.C. 160. At a later time he made great preparations for a second attack on Judas, but was driven to a stronghold, Ciazara, which was stormed by Judas, and there Timotheus was taken and slain (x.
24-37). It has been supposed that the events recorded in this latter narrative are identical witli those in I ^lacc. V, 6-8, an idea rendered nK)re plausible by the similarity of the names .lazer and (Jazara (in Lat. Ga- zer, Jazare, Gazara). But the name Timotheus was very common, and it is evident that Timotheus the Ammonitish leader was not slain at Jazer (1 Mace, v, 34) ; and Jazer was on the east side of Jordan, while Gazara was almost certainly the same as (iezer. See (iAZAKA; Jaazici!. It may be urged further, in sup- port of the substantial accuracy of 2 ]\Iacc., that the second campaign of Judas against the first-named Timo- theus (1 Mace, v, 27-44) is given in 2 JMacc. xii, 2-24 after the account of the capture of Gazara and the death of the second-named Timotheus there. Wernsdorf as- sumes that all the differences in the narratives are blim- ders in 2 iMacc. ( l>e Fide fAhr. Mace. § lxx),and in this be is followed by (irimin {On 2 Mace, x, 24, o^2^. But, , if any reliance is to be placed on 2 Jlacc. the differences of place and circumstances are rightly taken by Patri- cius to inark different events (De Libr. Mace § xxxii, p. 259).— Smith.
3. The (ireek form of the name of Timothy (q. v.), the special follower of Paul (Acts xvi, 1 : xvii, 14, etc.). He is called by this name in the A. V. in every case ex- cept 2 Cor. i, 1 ; Pldlem. 1 ; Heb. xiii, 23, and the epis- tles addressed to him (I Tim, i, 2,18; vi, 20; 2 Tim. i,2\