6th century. In his childhood he mounted his pillar
near Antioch, and is said to have occupied it sixty- eight years. The example of Simeon was afterwards followed, to a certain extent at bast, by many p. rsens in Syria .and Palestine, and pillar saints were found in the East even in the r.'tb century, when tin- 5 they we're tinned by the (ireoks. were abolished. This einler of saints never found a footing in the West, and when one' Wulfilaieus attempted to commence the prac- tice' in the' German territory of Treves, the neighboring bishops dc-iroycd his pillar, and prevented him from carrying hi- purpose into effect. See Gardner, Faiths ofth World, ii. 662.
Pilled (Gen. xxx. :i7. 38) is a rendering of ""^2,
patsdl, to strip off the bark, being the same as
"strakes," i. e. streaks, in the' same connection (\ er. 57). Peeled (Isa. xviii. •_'; Ezek. xxix. L8), however, i- a different word in the original, -~ ~ mardt, signifying t.> polish. The' verb -to pill" appear- in ( >ld English as identical in meaning with •■to peel to strip." ami in this sense is used in the above passages from Genesis. Of the n.\t stage in its meaning as- plunder, we have traces in the word " pillage," pilfer. If tin' difference between the' two forms be more than accidental, it would seem as if, in tin' English of the 17th century, "peel" was used for the latter signification. The' "pei , tercel ami peeled" are- generally interpreted !•• mean those that have been pi mule reel of all they havi
Milton, P. n. iv. "To peel lb.' chiefs, tl your."
— Dryden, //■ n irdson).
The soldiers of Nebuchadnezzar's army (Ezek. xxix. 18), however, have their shoulder peeled in the literal sense. The skin is worn off with carrying earth to pile up the mounds during the protracted siege of Tyi T\ m .
PiMmore (also spelled Pilmoor), Joseph, D.D., an earlj Episcopal minister in America, wa- born at Tadmouth, l'orkshire, England, about 1734, and was educated at Kingswood, the' school of John Wesley, un- der whom he' had been previously converted. On com-
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pleting his studies, Pilmore became a lay helper in the Methodist itinerant ministry, and labored in this way for many years through England. Scotland, and "Wales. His ministerial certificate from Mr. Wesley represents him as " having grace, gifts, and success or fruit in the work." His word was blessed everywhere. His ap- pearance and preaching were impressive. Mr. Pil- more's manly form, tall and erect, his sympathizing spirit, earnest zeal and prayers, all united to make strong and lasting impressions. In 1761) he came to America, and preached throughout the colonies. Stevens says Pilmore had many hair-breadth escapes of life and limb in his wide journeys. At Charleston, S. C, he could find no place to use for preaching except the theatre, and while earnestly delivering a sermon, suddenly the table used for a pulpit, with the chair he occupied, all at once disappeared through a trap-door to the cellar. This was a wicked contrivance of the "baser sort." Nothing discouraged, however, the preacher, springing upon the stage, with the table, invited the audience to the adjoining yard, adding pleasantly, "Come on, my friends, we will, by the grace of God, defeat the devil this time, and not be beat by him from our work," and then quietly finished his discourse. The fruits of his Christian labors appeared in the conversion of many souls. Wherever he appeared large crowds attended his ministry, and listened to his Master's message. With the Wesleyan preachers generally, Pilmore re- tired from his ministerial work during the troublesome times of the American Revolution. In 1783 he joined the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was soon after ordained. He now became rector of Trinity (Oxford), All Saints (Lower Dublin), and St. Thomas (White- marsh). After the establishment of peace in this year he returned to America, and next served St. Paul's, Philadelphia, and thence removed to Christ Church, New York, of which he was chosen rector in 1804. Notwithstanding the interdiction of " Old Trinity," he preached with great acceptance and usefulness during ten years, and then was chosen rector of St. Paul's, Philadelphia, in 1814. Mr. Pilmore's congregation in New York became well known for its evangelical piety, and some of its communicants were on terms of inti- mate friendship with the members of the old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church. During the year 1821 this faithful and aged minister's mental powers exhibited evidences of failure, and this, with bodily in- disposition, made it necessary for him to have an as- sistant. The Rev. Mr. Benjamin was chosen. Con- tinuing gradually to fail, Pilmore departed this life July 24, 1825. Dr. Pilmore was a faithful minister of God, and wherever he preached gathered a large body of communicants. He left many bequests for charitable purposes. He is the author of a Narrative of Labors in South Wales (1825), and of a Description ofTranls ami Trial* and Preaching in the Colonies of New York, N< w Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, which was never published. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, v, 266 ; Disosway, in the N. Y. Methodist, No. 178; Lives of Eminent Philadelphiam (1859). p. 801. (J.H.W.)
Pillow is the rendering in the A. V. of three very different Hebrew and one Greek word. The proper term is in the plur. r.'i'N'np, meraashoih (Gen. xxviii, 11, 18, elsewhere "bolster"), which denotes simply a place for laying the head. In that passage we read that "Jacob took of the stones of that place [Haran], and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep." The Hebrew word would be more properly rendered " towards the head." Similarly our Lord employed either the bench or possibly some cush- ion or rug upon it, when asleep upon the boat {irpoa- Ki(pa\aiwv, Mark iv, 38). See Bed. The TD3, ke'- seth (also in the plur.), of Ezek. xiii, 18, 20, however, designates a cushion or soft pad used in some way for magical enticement, perhaps one of the meretricious