1. One of the relatives of Heman who were ajipoint- ed door-keepers and musicians to tlie tabernacle bj- Da- vid (1 Chron. XV, 18. 20). B.C. 1043.
2. One of those appointed to a similar service on the return from Babylon (Neh. xii, 9). B.C. 535.
Unni, an archbishop of the 10th century who made a missionary tour into Denmark, and was instrumental in establishing Christianity throughout the kingdom. He was greatly aided by Harald, son of king (Jurm, and a convert to the Christian faith, although the king him- self remained a pagan. See Neander, Hist, of the Church, iii. i^><.
Unnifer, a very common funeral title of Osiris (q. v.), sigMif'yiiig the " Good Being."
Unpardonable Sin, or " Sin against the Holy Ghost" (Matt, xii, 31, 32. ami parallels), appears in the first instance to have been the ascription of the benefi- cent miracles of Jesus to Satanic power; and it seems to be unpardonable because it argued such an utter per- version of moral sense as to place the person capable of it beyond the province of divine grace. Similar cases of spiritual hardening or judicial blinding are elsewhere referred to in Scripture (Eph. iv, 18. 19; Ileb. vi, 6). See the Latin monograjths on the subject by Deutsch- mann (Yiteb. 1668), Heidegger (Tig. 1675), Fastenau (Hal. 1751), and others cited by Hase, Leben Jesu, p. 152. See Blasphemy; Sin.
Unselt, Sajiuel F'kikdrich, a Protestant theolo- gian of Germany, was born in 1742 at Dantzic. He studied theology at Leipsic, where his accpiaintance with (iellert had the greatest influence upon him. FVom Leipsic he returned tt) his native city, where he was appointed rector of St. Mary's. For twelve years he labored as a teacher, when he was called as pastor to Praust, not far from Dantzic. A few years later he was called to GlUtland', where he died. May 1, 1790. He wrote, Dissertatio de Natura Conversionis (Gedani, 1763): — Dissert, de Locorum Veteris Testamenti in Nova Accommodatione Orthodoxa (Lips. 1766). See Doring, Deutsche Kanzelredner, p. 552 sq. (B. P.)
Unterberger, 1(;natus, a German painter, was born at Karales, in the Tyrol, in 1744. After ac(piiring the elements of design from his father, he went to Rome, at the age of twenty, and studied with a brother. In 1776 he settled at Vienna, and became the favorite painter of the minister Kaunitz. He died in 1797. Among his principal works are, the Descent of the Holy Spii-it, in the principal church of Konigsgriitz ; and Peace and Lore, represented by a young girl caressing a lamb. See S|)ooner, Biog. Hist, of the Pine A ris, s, v. UnTvin, William Jordan, LL.D., a Church of England divine, was born at Great Coggeshall, F3ssex, Nov. 29, 1811. He was educated at Totteridge; pre- pared for the ministry at Rothwell, Highbury College, entering in 1830, and Glasgow University, which he entered in 1833, and where he graduated in 1835, tak- ing the two degrees of bachelor and master of arts. On leaving (ilasgow he became pastor of Cutting Lane (now Beaumont) Chapel, Woodbridge; and in 1842 tniu-
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ister of the Independent Congregation, St. Hellers, Jer- sey. In both spheres of hibor he adorned his profession by the consistency of his life, and benefited his people by the earnestness of his preaching. Being eminently fitted by his attainments and predilections for ednca- tional work, he was, in lSf8, appointed by the Congre- gationalists principal of the Training Institution, tirst established in Liverpool Street, and afterwards removed to Homerton College. In these two places, with quiet industry, unflagging zeal, conscientious attachment to Congregational principles, and fervent devotion to the Church, he labored until 1875, when failing health obliged him to relinquish his favorite employment. Numerous works useful for elementary schools proceeded from his pen ; also an able letter on Education the Work of the People. Dr. Unwin was remarkable for his con- scientiousness, integrity, his vigorous mind, accurate scholarship, firm purpose, and domestic affections. He diet! in 1877. See Evarif/elicul Magazine, April, 1877, p.-2-_'3.
Unwritten Word. " That authority' to which the Romish Church could lay no claim from the purity of its members it endeavored to support during the Dark Ages by its arrogant pretensions. The Scriptures, even in the Latin version, had long become a sealed bot)k to the people ; and the Roman see, in proportion as it extended its supremacy, discouraged or proscribed the use of such vernacular versions as existed. This it did, not lest the ignorant and half-informed should mis- take the sense of Scripture, nor lest the presumi)tuous and the perverse should deduce new errors in doctrine, and more fatal consequences in practice, from its dis- torted language, but in the secret and sure conscious- ness that what was now taught as Cliristianity was not to be found in the written Word of God. In mainte- nance of the dominant system, tradition, or the unwrit- ten Word, was set up. This had been the artifice of some of the earliest heretics, who, when they were charged with holding doctrines not according to Script- ure, affirmed that some things had been revealed which were not committed to writing, but were orally trans- mitted down. The Pharisees before them pleaded the same supposititious authority for. the formalities which the}' added to the law, and by which they sometimes superseded it, ' making the Word of God of none effect,' as our Saviour himself reproached them. Upon this ground the Romish clergy justified all the devices of man's imagination with which they had corrupted the ritual and the faith of the Western Church" (Southey, Book of the Church). See Tradition.