Post {stationary) is the rendering in the A. V. of the following words:
1. ?^X, ayil (Sept. rb aiSpiov, Vulg. frons), proper- ly a ram (as in Gen. xv, 9, and often) ; hence perhaps a pilaster or buttress (Ezek. xl, 9-49; xli, 1,3; "lin- tel," 1 Kings vi, 31). In the Sept. it is sometimes left untranslated (a'i\, alXsv, alXdfi); and in the Chaldee version it is represented by a modification of itself. Throughout the passages of Ezekiel in which it occurs the Vulg. uniformly renders it by frons : which Gese- nius quotes as favorable to his own view, provided that by frons be understood the projections in front of the building. The A. V. of 1 Kings vi, 31, "lintel," is supported by the versions of Aquila, Symmachus. and Theodotion of Ezek. xl, 21; while Kimchi explains it, generally by "post." The Peshito-Syriac uniformly renders the word by a modification of the Greek TvapaaraCtQ, "pillars." Jarchi understands by ayil a round column like a large tree; Aquila (Ezek. xl, 14), having in view the meaning " ram," which the word elsewhere bears, renders it icplu/ia, apparently intending thereby to denote the vol- utes of columns curved like ranis' horns. J. D. Mi- chaelis (Si/pj). ad Lex. s. v.) considers it to be the tympanum or triangular area of the pediment above a gate supported by columns. Gesenius himself, after reviewing the passages in which the word occurs, arrives at the conclusion that in the singular it denotes the whole projecting frame- work of a door or gateway, including the jambs on either side, the threshold, and the lintel or ar- chitrave, with frieze and cornice. In the plural it is applied to denote the projections along the front of an edifice ornamented with columns or palm- trees, and with recesses or intercolumniations be- tween them sometimes filled up by windows. Un- der the former head he places 1 Kings vi, 31 ; Ezek. xl, 9, 21, 24, 26, 29, 31, 33, 34, 36-38, 48, 49; xli, 3; while to the latter he refers xl, 10, 14, 16; xli, 1. Another explanation still is that of Bott- cher (quoted by Winer, Real/e. ii, 575), who says that ayil is the projecting entrance and passage wall— which might appropriately be divided into compartments by panelling; and this view is adopted by Fiirst (Handle, s. v.). Akin to this is cb^X, eyldm, "an arch," only used in the plur. (Ezek. xl, 16, etc.), probably a portico, and so ren-
tost
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dered by Symmachus and Syriac versions (Gcscn. The- swir. p. 18 I.
2. r."£N. ammah i Sept. virtpSvpov, Yulg. mperlimi- nan i, literally, mother,ox cubit, aa the fundamental re- lation: a foundation (Isa. vi, 4).
:;. P1T1T52 Si pt irra^fioc, <p\ia; Vulg.po*-
i;,i, the door-post (the usual term). See Mezuzah. I mony of boring the ear of a voluntary bonds-
man was performed by placing 1 1 j « - car againsl the door- posl of the house (Exod. xxi, 6 ; see Juven. Sat. i, 103, and Plant. Pcen. v. •-'. 21). The posts of the doors ol the Temple were of olive-wood (1 Kings \ i. 33 I.
1. r~. saph I Sept. (j)\id, TrpoTrvXor; Vulg. limen, su- perliminart I, the threshold (2 Chron. iii. 7: Ezek. xli, 16; Amos ix, l: elsewhere "threshold," -door," or "gate"). See Door.
Post, Christian Frederick, a distinguished but somewhat erratic Moravian missionary, was born in 1710 at Conitz, in Polish Prussia. He immigrated to America in 1742. He preached, after his arrival in this country, among the Indians, with whom he was con- nected by marriage, his firsl wife, Rachel, having been a baptized Wompanoag, and his sec. .ml wife, Agnes, a baptized Delaware. His earliest missionary labors ex- tended over parts of New England and New York. In 171.'), while among the Mohawks, he was arrested on the false charge of being a French spy. sent to New York, and there confined for seven weeks in the jail of the City Hall. His companion, David Zeisberger (i|. v. i. shared the same lot. The protest of Governor Thomas and other influential Pennsvh anians at last seeiire.i their release. Alter the death of his second Indian wife -his third wife was a white woman — he returned to Europe, and thence, in 1752, sailed to Lab- rador, attempting to bring the Gospel to the Esqui- maux. Having come back to Pennsylvania in 17f>4, In' established himself in the Wyoming Valley, where he instructed the Indians and entertained travelling missionaries until the breaking oul ol the French and Indian War. In the course of this war, in the summer of 1758, ai the instance of the government of Pennsyl- vania, he undertook a perilous journey through the Indian country as far as Ohio, inducing the Western tribes which were in league with France to bury the
hatchet and send deputies to a < gress at Easton.
This congress resulted in a general pacification, which embraced all the nations ex :epl the Twightwees. Un- daunted by the dangers of his first tour, he thereu]
visited the Indian country a second time, and induced the Twightwees also to conclude peace. Post thus conferred an incalculable benefit upon the colonies, and indirectly helped to bring the North American conti- nent under the sway of the Anglo-Saxon race. The journal of his lir-l lour, which caused a great sensation at the time, was published in London in 1759, in a work eniiiled An Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation *•/ the Delawart and Shawnee Indians from th< British Interest, etc. It is also found in the Perm. Archives, iii. 520 "'II. After the war Tost began (1761 I an in- dependent mission on the Tuscarawas, Ohio. The breaking oul of the Pontiac conspiracy compelled him to retire. lie went to the South, and in the beginning of 1764 sailed from Charleston to Mosqnitia, where he ; to the natives. In I7ii7 he visited the colo- nies, but returned again to Mosquitia. After thai we lose sight of him until 1784, when he is found residing in Germantown, Pa. There he died. April 29, 1785, and was buried in the Lower Graveyard of that place by the Rev. William While (afterwards bishop White), rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia. (E. de S.)