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Carolingian house. Amid all his dignities, he longed for the peace of the contemplative life; probably in 627 he resigned his see and retired into the wilderness of the Vosges, where he lived as a hermit near his friend Romarich, the founder of the abbey of Remiremont. His body rests in the church at Metz which bears his name. (A. Hauck.)
Bibliography: Vita,by unknown author, in MGH, Script, rer. Merov., ii. (1888) 426-446; and by another author in MPL,xev. Consult Rettberg, KD, i. 488; Friedrich, KD, ii 236- Begel, Histoire de S. Arnoul, Bar-le-Duc, 1875; Wattenbach, DGQ, i. 144; Hauck, KD, i. 127, 161, 295, 316.
ARROWSMITH, JOHN: Puritan and Presbyterian; b. near Newcastle-on-Tyne Mar. 29, 1602; d. at Cambridge and was buried Feb. 24, 1659. He was educated at Cambridge, where he became fellow of St. Catherine's Hall (1623). He was successively incumbent of St. Nicholas's Chapel, King's Lynn (1631); master of St. John's College, Cambridge (1644); rector of St. Martin's, Ironmonger Lane, London (1645), and member of the sixth London classis; vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (1647); regius professor of divinity there (1651); master of Trinity College (1653). He sat in the Westminster Assembly of Divines (1643). Robert Baillie describes him as " a man with a glass eye in place of that which was put out by an arrow, a learned divine, on whom the Assembly put the writing against the Antinomians." He was on the committee to draw up a confession of faith, and preached thrice before Parliament, the sermons being published: The Covenant- Avenging Sword Brandished [Lev. xxvi. 25] (London, 1643, 4to, pp. 28); England's Eben-ezer [I Sam. vii. 12] (1645, 4to, pp. 34); A Great Wonder in Heaven ; or, a lively Picture of the Militant Church, drawn by a Divine Penman [Rev. xii. 1, 2] (1647, 4to, pp. 44). While at Cambridge he published Tactica sacra, sive de milite spirituali pugnante, vincente, et triumphantedissertatio (Cambridge, 1657, 4to, pp. 363), containing also three Orationes anti-Weigeliana. After his death there were published: Armilla catechetica, A Chain of Principles ; or, an orderly Concatenation of Theological Aphorisms and Exercitations, wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved (Cambridge, 1659, 4to, pp. 490), an unfinished work designed to form a complete body of divinity in thirty aphorisms, only six of which were completed, covering for the most part the ground of the first twenty questions of the larger Westminster Catechism, in essentially the same order; also deav- &pmor or God-Man (London, 1660, 4to,pp. 311), an exposition of the Gospel of John i. 1-18, discussing the divinity and humanity of Christ, and maintaining the Catholic doctrine against all heresies. C. A. Briggs.
ARSENIUS, ar-si'ni-us: 1. Egyptian monk; Q-, nearly or more than one hundred years old, at Troe (Troja), near Memphis, about 450. He was a Roman of distinction, served as tutor to the sons of the emperor Theodosius, and retired into the desert of Scetis in Egypt under Arcadius. He is commemorated in the Greek Church on May 8 and in the Latin on July 19. He wrote a book of " In- L— 20
struction and Exhortation " for his monks, and an
exposition of Luke x. 25 (ed. A. Mai, Classici
auctores, x., Rome, 1838, 553-557; MPG, lxvi.
1615-26). G. Kruger.
Bibliography: Vita, in ASB, July, iv. 605-631; DCB, i. 172-174.
2. Patriarch of Constantinople 1255-67; d. 1273. On the death of the emperor Theodore Lascaris II. in 1259, Michael Palseologus usurped the throne, seized upon the legitimate heir, John Lascaris, a boy of six or seven years, and deprived him of his eyesight. Arsenius manfully espoused the cause of the young prince and was banished to an island in the Propontis in consequence. He had followers who for a number of decades remained in irreconcilable opposition and formal schism against the government. His will, in which he anathematized the emperor and his helpers, is in MPG, cxl. 947-958. G. Kruger.
Bibliography: KL, i. 1447-50.