eleven times, and Alhamdo lilldhi \ praise to God] eleven times." Compare this puerility with the sub- lime instructions of our Saviour. Bul again: " Who- ever says Suhhan Allah and Bihamdihi a hundred times in a day. his faults shall be silenced, though they be as great as the waves of the sea. Whoever says, morning and evening. Sub/tan Allah and Bihamdihi a hundred
times, i ne will brine,- a better dei, l than his on the
day of resurrection, except one who should have said like him. or added anything thereto." To these instruc- tions the Mohammedans have been most attentive. There are those among Christians, especially Roman Catholics, who repeal the Lord's I'rayer and other forms a greal number of times, and vainly think that the ,,ft- ener the prayer is repeated the more efficacious it is, i. e. if repeated two hundred times it will be twice as
good as if repeated only one hundred times. (See tl o literature in Volbeding. Index Programmatum, p. :'.:'•; Hase, l.ihui Jesu, p. 229.) See Ave Maria; Pater- noster; Ros \i:v.
Repetitions in the Liturgy. An objection has been made i,, the Liturgy of the English Church that it Involves vain repetitions and a useless prolixity. It is
replied, repetition is one t hi tig. bul a rain repetition quite
another. The repetitions in the Liturgy are principally in the cry "Have mercy upon us." and in the use of the Lord's Prayer twice, or at most thrice, in the long- est services, and in the responses in the Litany ami the Decalogue. Reference is also made to the example of our Saviour who prayed thrice in Gethsemane, " saving the sanu words" (Matt. xxvi. 44). further, the peti- tions which we address to Heaven must, fat the most part, have the same general drifl : and there can be no advantage in arranging them in a perpetuallv changing
dress, nor will they he the hetter received because ol their novelty.— Staunton, Diet, of the Church,*. v. Re'phael (Heb. RephaiV, bKfil, healed of God;
REPHAH
1043 REPHAIM, VALLEY OF
Sept. 'Pa<pariX), a son of Shemaiah the Levite, of the house of Obed-edom, an able-bodied porter in the ser- vice of the house of God in David's reign ( 1 Chron. xxvi, 7). B.C. cir. 1015.
Re'phah ( Heb. Re'phach, 1~IB"1, riches ; Sept. 'Pa<pi)),a. son of Beriah, of the tribe ofEphraim, ances- tor of Joshua (1 Chron. vii, 25). B.C. post 1618.
Rephai'ah (Heb. Rephctyah', !"^EH, healed of Je- hovah ; Sept. 'Patyaxa v. r. 'PoHpaia, etc.), the name of five Israelites.
1. The second named of six sons of Tola, head of a family in Issachar (1 Chron. vii, 2). B.C. ante 1658.
2. Son of Binea, and eighth in lineal descent from Saul's son Jonathan (1 Chron. ix, 43). B.C. long post 1000. He is also called Rapha (1 Chron. viii, 37).
3. Son of Ishi, and one of the chieftains of the tribe of Simeon, in the reign of Hezekiab, who headed the ex- pedition of five hundred men against the Amalekites of Mt. Seir and drove them out (1 Chron. iv, 42). B.C. cir. 725.
4. Son of Hur, and ruler of "the half" of Jeru- salem. He aided in rebuilding the wall (Neh. iii, 9). B.C. 445.
5. Son of Hananiah and father of Arnan, among the descendants of Zerubbabel (1 Chron. iii, 21) ; the same with Rhesa (q. v.) of the genealogy of Christ (Luke iii, 27).
Repha'im [many Reph'aivti] (Heb. usually with the art. ha-Repha'im' , C^XS"!!! [see below]), a name which frequently occurs, and in some remarkable pas- sages, as that of a race of unusual stature, who originally dwelt in the country east of the Jordan. The earliest mention of them is the record of their defeat by Chedor- laomer and some allied kings at Ashteroth Karnaim (Gen. xiv, 5). They are again mentioned (xv, 20); their dispersion recorded (Deut. ii, 10, 20), and Og the giant king of Bashan said to be "the only remnant of them" (iii, 11; Josh. xii,4; xiii, 12; xvii, 15). Extir- pated, however, from the east of Palestine, they long found a home in the West ; and in connection with the Philistines, under whose protection the small remnant of them may have lived, they still employed their arms against the Hebrews (2 Sam. xxi, 18 sq. ; 1 Chron. xx, 4). In the latter passage there seems, however, to be some confusion between the Rephaim and the sons of a particular giant of Gath, named Kapha. Such a name may have been conjectured as that of a founder of the race, like the names Ion, Dorus, Tent, etc. (Bottcher, De Jnferis, p. 96, note) ; Rapha occurs also as a proper name (1 Chron. vii, 25 ; viii, 2, 37). It is probable that they had possessed districts west of the Jordan in early times, since the "valley of Rephaim" (icoikdc rwv Tvravuv, 2 Sam. v, 18; 1 Chron. xi, 15; Isa. xvii, 5; k. tCov yiydvriov, Joseph. Ant. vii, 4, 1), a rich valley south-west of Jeru- salem, derived its name from them. That they were not Canaanites is clear from there being no allusion to them in Gen. x, 15-19. They were probably one of those aboriginal peoples to whose existence the tradi- tions of many nations testify, and of whose genealogy the Bible gives us no information. The few names re- corded have, as Ewald remarks, a Shemitic aspect (Gesch. des Volkes Is?: i, 311); but from the hatred existing be- tween them and both the Canaanites and Hebrews, some suppose them to be Japhethites, " who comprised espe- cially the inhabitants of the coasts and islands" (Kalisch, on Gen. p. 351). See Canaanite.