Zachari'ah («, 2 Kings xiv, 29; xv, 8, 11 ; b,2 Kings xviii, 2). See Zechakiah.
Zachari'as (Zfl^opiof ), the Greek form of the Heb. name Zechariah ; applied to several men in the Apocrypha and New Test., besides those mentioned in the Old Test. : the priest in Josiah's reign (1 Esdr. i, 8), the lesser prophet ( vi, 1 ; vii, 3), the adviser of Ezra (viii, 44; comp. Ezra viii, 16), the "son" of Pha- rosh (1 Esdr. viii, 30 ; comp. Ezra viii, 3). the "son" of Bebai (1 Esdr. viii, 37 ; comp. Ezra viii, 11), a "son" of Elam (1 Esdr. ix, 27 ; comp. Ezra x, 26), and one (1 Esdr. i, 15) who is properly called Heman (2 Chron. xxxv, 15), and another C^apmnc. 1 Esdr. v, 8) properly called Aza- riah, or Svraiah (Ezra ii, 2 ; Neh. vii, 7).
1. Son of Barachias, who, our Lord says, was slain by the Jews between the altar and the Temple (Matt, xxiii, 35; Luke xi, 51). There has been much dispute who this Zacharias was. There is no reason to identify him with the Zechariah son of Jeberecbiah mentioned in Isa. viii, 2. It is singular that Josephus ( War, iv, 5, 4) men-
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tions another Zacharias, son of Baruch, who was slaiaby the Jews in the Temple shortly before the last siege of Jerusalem began ( see Whiston's note, (id loc. ). From the time of Origen, who relates that the father of John the Baptist was killed in the Temple, many of the Greek fathers have maintained that this is the person to whom our Lord refers. The name of the father of Zacharias not being mentioned by Luke, some unwarrantably suppose that the name of Barachias crept into the text of Matthew from a marginal gloss, a confusion hav- ing been made between Zacharias, the son of Jehoiada, and Zacharias the prophet, the son of Barachias (Bere- chiah). There can be little or no doubt that the allu- sion is to Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada (2 Chron. xxiv, 20, 21). As the book of Chronicles— in which the mur- der of this Zechariah occurs — closes the Hebrew canon, this assassination was the last of the murders of righte- ous men recorded in the Bible, just as that of Abel was the first (see Renan, I'ie (ie Jesus, p.353). See Zecha-
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2. Father of Joseph, a leader in the first campaign of the Maccabffian war (1 Mace, v, 18, 5()-G2).
3. Father of John the Baptist (Luke i, 5, etc.). B.C. ante 8.
Zacharias, pope from A.D. 741 to 752. He induced the Lombard king Luitprand to restore the cities taken from Rome in 739, to conclude a truce for twenty years, and subsequently to desist from the siege of Ravenna and restore all the territory taken from the exarchate. He was equally successful in influencing Luitprand's successor, Rachis, as respects the interruption of his con- quests, and even received that monarch and his queen and daughter into the number of his clergy (749) after their abdication of the throne. He also consecrated Car- loman to the clerical office (747). He advised the By- zantine emperor Copronymus to replace the images in the churches. Boniface, the apostle to the Germans, found in Zacharias an energetic and able manager of the interests of Rome, and became his agent in the elevation of the Carlovingian dynasty. Zacharias held a synod in 743 at which fifty-nine bishops were present, and which dealt with questions of discipline. He translated the Dialogues of Gregory the Great into Greek, and pur- chased the liberty of many slaves destined by the Ve- netians for Africa. See Jaffe, Rer/esta Pontijician ; Migne, Patro/orjie, tom. 89; Wiirtwein and (iiles, collections of Boniface's letters, St. Bonif. Opera (Lond. 1845), vol. i ; Herzog, Reul-Encyklop. s v.
Zacharias, Daniel, D.D., an esteemed minister of the (ierman Reformed Church, was born in Washington County, Md., in 1806. He united with the Church un- der the Rev. James Ross Reily, and soon afterwards com- menced his classical studies, preparatory to the ministry, at the Hagerstown Academy, and finished the same in Canonsburg, Pa. Subsequently he entered the Semi- nary of the Reformed Church, then located in Carlisle, where he completed his theological course under the Rev. Lewis Mayer, D.D. He was licensed and ordained in 1828, and located in York County. In 1830 he took charge of the Reformed Church in Harrisburg, where he continued to labor until 1835, when he removed to Fred- erick City, Md. Here he labored with great acceptance and success to the close of his long and useful life. He died March 31, 1873. Dr. Zacharias was a man of supe- rior natural endowments, high culture, amiable dispo- sition, and more than ordinary pulpit abilities. "Few men have been so loved by their congregations, or have so grown into the affections of the communitj' in which they lived." As a public speaker he was greatly ad- mired, and universally esteemed as a most excellent pastor, genial companion, and trusty friend. He was chosen president of the District Synod in 1835, and of the General Synod in 1866. He aided materially in compiling the hymn-book of the Reformed Church, and also in getting up its present Order of Worship, See Ref. Church Mess. April 9. 1873. (D.Y. H.) X.-X X X