His brother Thomas translated into English a Hebrew treatise of Manasseh ben-Israel (Of the Term of Life, Lond. 1699, 12mo). (J. H. W.)
Pococke, Richard, an English prelate, was born in 1704 at Southampton. It is believed that he be- longed to the family of the preceding, notwithstanding the slight difference in the spelling of his name. He studied at Oxford, was received doctor, and embraced the ecclesiastical career. In 1734 and 1741 he travelled in the East, and published on his return a narrative of his journey, under the title, A Description of the East and some other Countries (Lond. 1743-45, 3 vols, in 2, folio, with 179 drawings and maps). This work most fully and with care delineates the countries and manners which make its reading interesting even now. Having accompanied lord Chesterfield to Ireland as chaplain, he remained in that country, and was appointed in 1756
bishop of Ossory. He had just been transferred to Meath when he died of apoplexy, in September, 1765. There are some notices of him in the Philosophical Transactions and in the Archceologia. (J. H.W.)
Pocularies is an ecclesiastical term used for drink- ing-cups consecrated in churches.
Poderis or Talaris is another name for the alb (q.v.).
Podico, John de (also called John de Yalladolhl or John Coneersus), a convert from Judaism and noted as a writer, was born about the year 1335. He is the author of two anti-Jewish works, viz. Corcordia legis, cited very often by Alfonso de Spina in his Fortalitium fidei (p. 117, 155, 169, 170 sq.), and Declaratio super A ben Esram in decern prcecepta ; also quoted by Alfonso de Spina. He was permitted by the king, Don Henry, to hold religious disputations with Jews, and in 1375 such a disputation took place in the cathedral of Avila, where Moses Kohen de Tordesillas was the spokesman of the Jews. The main points to be discussed were the dogmas of Christianity, the Messiahshipof Jesus, his di- vinity and incarnation, the Trinity, and the virginity of Mary. Four discussions were held, the result of which was published by Tordesillas in his ni^xn "*3>, or examination of one hundred and twenty-five passages of Scripture usually urged by Christians in favor of their religion. This book, which he designated " The Stronghold of the Faith," he presented to the syna- gogue of Avila and Toledo. See Ftirst, Bibl. Judaica, iii, 435, 467; De Rossi, Dizionario storico degli Autori Ebri i ( ( ierm. transl. by Bamberger), p. 317 ; the same, Bibl. Judaica antichristiana, p. 26; Griitz, Gesch. d. J nihil, viii, 21 sq. ; Lindo, Hist, of the Jews, p. 159; Finn, Sephardim, p. 311 ; Kalkar, Israel und die Kirche, p. 25. (B. P.)
Podoniptas (i. e. Feet-washers) is one of the names by which that branch of the Mennonites, otherwise known as Flemings, are sometimes designated. They maintain that the example of Christ, which has in this instance the force of a law, requires his disciples to wash the feet of their guests in token of their love ; ami for this reason they have been called Podoniptee. But oth- ers deny that this rite was enjoined by Christ. See Mennonitks.
Poe, Adam, D.D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, noted for his devotion to its inter- ests, literary, social, and religious, was born in Colum- biana County, Ohio, July 21, 1804. Such limited ad- vantages as the times and the means of his parents afforded him for acquiring an education were eagerly embraced, and in the schools and by private tuition he secured the elements of a good English education and some knowledge of the classics, and formed a taste for reading and study which he continued through life. He received his early Christian training in the Presby- terian Church, and ever cherished for it a profound re- spect ; but its distinctive doctrines did not find a response in his heart, and after careful examination and many severe spiritual conflicts he preferred the doctrines of religion as taught by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Having decided to give himself to the work of the min- istry, to which he felt called of God, he was licensed to preach, and in 1826 became a travelling preacher in the Ohio Annual Conference. He was effective from that date to the time of the illness which resulted in his death ; and as a pastor, and in the other capacities in which he served the Church and her cause, he was a most efficient laborer of the Master. Dr. Poe entered the travelling ministry when the work involved sacrifices and demanded labors of no ordinary character. The circuits were of vast extent. An absence from home of twenty-eight days, with a sermon and a class or prayer meeting for each and every day, and a horseback ride of six hundred miles through the forests and the rough
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