THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE E - Fylla by James Strong & John McClintock To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God: Welcome to the AGES Digital Library. We trust your experience with this and other volumes in the Library fulfills our motto and vision which is our commitment to you: MAKING THE WORDS OF THE WISE AVAILABLE TO ALL — INEXPENSIVELY. AGES Software Rio, WI USA Version 1.0 © 2000 2 E Eaba abbot of Malmesbury, in the 8th century. Eadbald (Lat. AEdboldus), 12th bishop of London, A.D. 796. Eadbert (i.e., Albert or Adalbert). (1) Bishop of Lindisfarne, A.D. 688; died May 6 (his day of commemoration), A.D. 698. (2) Ninth bishop of London (sometimes called Filbrith), cir. A.D. 772-788. (3) Abbot of Reculver (called also Heahbert), A.D. 747. (4) Abbot of Mercia, A.D. 747. (5) Abbot of Sherborn, A.D. 803. (6) First bishop of the South Saxons, A.D. 711. (7) Fifth bishop of the Middle Angles at Leicester, A.D. 764-787. Eadburga (i.e., Ethelburga). (1) Daughter of Aldwulf, king of the East Angles, was abbess of Repton, in the 7th century. (2) Widow of Wulfhere, king of Mercia, wjs second abbess of St. Peter's, Gloucester, A.D. 710-73. Eadfrid (i.e., Alfred). SEE EADFRITH. Eadgar (i.e., Edgar). (1) Third bishop of Lindisfarne. cir. A.D. 706-731. (2) Tenth bishop of London, A.D. 787-793. 3 Eadhed a priest of Oswy, king of Northumbria; ordained by Deusdedit in 664, consecrated bishop of Lindsey in 678, and transferred to Ripon soon afterwards. Eadie, John, D.D., LL.D. a distinguished divine of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, was born at Alva, Stirlingshire, May 9, 1810. He graduated from the Universityof Glasgow, studied at the Divinity Hall of the Secession Church (United Presbyterian), and in 1835 was ordained pastor of the Cambridge Street Church, Glasgow, in which he speedily attained great eminence and usefulness. He was regarded as the leading representative of the denomination to which he belonged and of the city which has always been its stronghold. As a preacher he was distinguished for his hard common- sense and occasional flashes of happy illustration, for his masculine piety, deep earnestness, and breadth of sympathy, both intellectual and emotional. He was frequently called to other important charges, but was too strongly attached to Glasgow to leave. In 1836 he removed with his congregation to a new and beautiful church at Lansdowne Crescent, where his influence continued unabated until his death, June 3, 1876. Dr. Eadie bore the reputation of extensive and profound scholarship, and in 1843 was appointed by the Church to the chair of hermeneutics and the evidences of natural and revealed religion in Divinity Hall. As a critic he was acute and painstaking, as an interpreter eminently fair-minded. In the pulpit, as in the professor's chair, his strength lay in, the tact with which he selected the soundest results of Biblical criticism, whether his own or that of others, and presented them in a clear and connected form with a constant view of their practical bearing. If this last fact gave a non-academic aspect to some of his lectures, it rendered them not less interesting and probably not less useful to his auditors. Being engaged in two distinct offices, either of which were sufficient to claim all his energies, he nevertheless found time for an amount of work in a third sphere, of which the same thing may be said. Most of his works were connected with Biblical criticism and interpretation, some of them being designed for popular use and others being more strictly scientific. To the former class belong his contributions to the Biblical Cyclopaedias of Kitto and Fairbairn, his edition of Cruden's Concordianae, Oriental History, and his discourses. The Life of Dr. Kitto obtained a deserved popularity, also his Dictionary of the Bible for the 4 Young, Lectures on the Bible to the Young, etc. His last work, the History of the English Bible (1876, 2 volumes), will probably be the most enduring memorial of his. ability as an author. He is the author of valuable expositions on the Greek text of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. See his Lie, by Brown (Lond. 1878). (W.P.S.) Eadred (or Heardred), bishop of Hexham, consecrated October 29, 797, died in 800. Eadric, second abbot of St. Albans, A.D. 796. Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury, of whose parentage and birthplace nothing seems to be known. The earliest mention of him presents him as one of the chaplains of Canute; he was then a secular, and, of course, in priest's orders. He was consecrated bishop of St. Martin's in 1035; was translated to the see of Canterbury in 1038, and repaired to Rome for the pallium. On his return home, In 1043, he was called upon to officiate at the coronation of Edward the Confessor-the memorable event of his life. He died in 1050. See Hook, Lives of the Abbs. of Canterbury, 1:489 sq. Eadulf (or Aldwulf, Lat. Adulphus). (1) Eighth bishop of Lindsey, A.D. 796-836. (2) Fifteenth bishop of Lichfield, cir. A.D. 803-816. Eagle, In Christian Symbolism Picture for Eagle St. Gregory considered this bird to typify the contemplative life; other fathers regarded it as an emblem of resurrection (<19A305>Psalm 103:5). It is the symbol of St. John the Evangelist, as it soars up to heaven and the sun; and he dwells in his Gospel and the Revelations specially on the divine discourses and the celestial glory of the Sun of Righteousness. It also represented the regeneration of the neophyte; the resurrection of the Saviour (says St. Ambrose); and renewing of the soul on earth, as glory hereafter will renew body and soul; the power of grace when it is portrayed drinking at a chalice, or in combat with a serpent, the type of evil. 5 Eagle, As An Architectural Term is used to designate a branzen or wooden lectern, the upper portion of which; represents an eagle with outstretched wings, on the back of which is a book-rest. Many ancient examples of such lecterns remain in collegiate and cathedral churches, and a great number of new specimens have been made for use after the old models. SEE LECTERN. Eagleton, William, D.D. a Presbyterian minister, was born in Maryville, Tennessee, March 25, 1796. He was educated in Maryville College, and studied theology in the South- western Theological Seminary, at the same place. In 1827 he was licensed by the Union Presbytery, and soon after was elected professor in Maryville College, In 1829 he accepted a call to the Church in Murfreesborough, where he remained till his death, March 28, 1866. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867, page 431. Eames, James Henry, D.D. a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, November 29, 1814. The first two years of his college course were spent at King College, Bristol, Tennessee, and the last two at Brown University, where he graduated in 1839. He pursued his theological studies with Reverend John Bristed, of Bristol, R.I., was ordained deacon in December, 1841, and presbyter in 1842; was rector of Ascension Church, in Wakefield, for about four years, when he took charge of St. Stephen's Church in Providence, remaining there until 1850, and then engaged in missionary labor in Rhode Island; became rector of St. Paul's Church, Concord, N.H., in 1858, and held that position until his death, Which occurred in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, December 10, 1877. For many years Dr. Eames was. chaplain to the asylum for the insane, and performed a large amount of missionary work in New Hampshire. Three times he travelled in Europe, and spent part of several winters in Bermuda. (J.C.S.) Eanbald (or Enbald). 6 (1) The pupil and successor of Albert in the archiepiscopal see of York, A.D. 782. He was very vigorous in the administration of his diocese, and died at a monastery called Etlete (or Edete), August 10, 796. (2) Called also Heantbald, succeeded the, foregoing as archbishop of York, and his history is given with considerable detail by Alcuin. He appears to have died A.D. 812. Eanbert bishop of Hexham, cir. A.D. 800-806. Eanfrith, fifth bishop of Elmham, A.D. 736. Eanswitha (or Enswida), a British saint, commemorated Aug. 31, was the daughter of Eadba, king of Kent, and lived a virgin, in a nunnery founded by her, at Folkestone, where she died, some say in 640, others in 673. Eardulf (Lat. Ardulphus). (1) Bishop of East Anglia (Dunwich) in 747. (2) Twelfth bishop of Rochester, cir. A.D. 762. Earle, Jabez, D.D. an English Independent minister, was born about 1676, and educated among the Dissenters. He was assistant to the Reverend Thomas Reynolds, at the Weigh-House, London, in 1699; and in 1707 removed to Hanover Street, where he ministered more than sixty years, and died in 1768, leaving a number of Sermons and theological treatises, etc. (1706-35; new ed. 1816, 8vo). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Wilson, Dissenting Churches, 1:169; 2:6, 492, 508, 530. Earle (or Earles), John an English prelate, was born at York in 1601, and entered Merton College, Oxford, in 1620. He became chaplain and tutor to prince Charles, and chancellor of the cathedral of Salisbury. On the Restoration he was made deani of Westminster, and consecrated bishop of Worcester in 1662.