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THE JEWISH EXCYCLOPEDLl

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harness auy of lliese would not be reckoned an infringement of Dent. xxii. 10. Therc was a legend to the ellect that of the three elas.ses of men that built the Tower of IJabel. one wa.s turned into A|ies(Sanh. 109'( compare Yalk.. Gen. <>'Z). Apes wen' used asa method of disadvantageous comparison tlius, Sarali was to Eve as an ape to man; Eve to Adam; and



Adam

to Coil (H. li. '>xpear to be of the same category as the ape since its resemblance to man was so great

Damascus by

iUiab, king of Israel (I Kings, xx. 29 See Ai'iiEK, B.vtti-e of. The site is disputed. The common opinion is that the town lay east of the Jordan and that the name is preserved in the moilern Fek, three miles east of the Sea of Galilee, on the edge of the i)laiu of Jordan. Latterly the opinion has gained credence that it wa.s the same Apliek as that mentioned in Josh. xii. IH and I Sam. iv. 1, in the north of the i)lain of Sharon, the supposition being that the Syrians were invading Israel from the western side as being the most vulnerable. In the same place Joa.sli also gained a victory over the Syrians under Ben-hadad III. (II Kings, .xiii. IT). See also illustration, p. (iG4. BniLiomui'nv Smith. HMoriral Grimraiiliji of the Hutu ctmii.).



L(i/i((. iuilex, s.v.



Hulil.

(Jrnfinnihk

ilrK

P--'l-'.

Allen PaliMiiia, J. F. -Met".

APHEK, THE BATTLE

OF: This event. described in I Kings, xx. '2ii-'-i4, was one of the most notable in the prolonged warfare between northern

LKO and rARRIF.D

APE.S

Aphraates

.IS

TKIBLTK.

(From L«yar<), " NlDrvth.")

that

dead body,

its

liki'

that of a

man, would render

name

mCM 'JHS

has been interpreted variously as a chinipan/ee or orangutan; while some rigard the animal as altogether fabidous and identical willi 'J3N. "stones of the field " (Sammter, Jlishnayot [iranslation], i. 77; Job, V. 2:i).

at<'nt unclean (Kil.

viii. 5).

Its

mCH

Ii7.;i.^l:

W-

I-ewlwilm, 7)iV /.unlnaii .;.» Tulminlf. pp. Hiiilmrt. J/i< r bulliling of the Temple by the Jews, and brought Ihe matter to the attention of

Darius(E/.ni, liorled to

iv.

!l,

v.

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vi.

(i).

They

bail

Samaria by .snapper (Ezra,

been

iv,

il).

liiiiis-

Their

It appears idenlity has not been fully established. and probable that the term has been niisundi rst designates in reality certain ollicials. Sie AfliAltsiiKs. G. B. L. I

APHARSITES

As.syrian subjects Ininsplanted In E/.ni. iv. !l. they are into Sanmilii by Asnapper. found intriguing against the Jews, and lliis led Ar tiixerxes to issue orders for the building of the Tem(}. B. L. ple to cease.

APHEK in the



The name of several places menlioned Old Testament, of which the most famous

was the scene

of a severe defeat of

Ben

liadail II. of

The SyriIsrael and the Aramcans of Damascus. ans, who, under Ben hadad II., had been defeated by Israel the year before in a conltict among the hills of Samaria 1 Kings, xx. 215), stationed themselves in (

the lowland, which they believed a more advan-

tageous position. Their rendezvous was probably Aphek, in the north end uf the great plain of Sharon, They were again ilefealed. and after being blockaded in .pliik they surrendered to Ahab, who treated them mereifullv and allowed them to return to Diunasciis, One result of the victory was tiiat a truce, lasting over two years, was concluded between Israel ami Damasi-us, so that the following year (H.")4 n.i.) .Mail) and lieu hadad were foinid lighting .side by side War, howi'Ver, broke out against the A.s.syrians. airain in

M3, when Ahab was

killed at J.

Cileail.

F.

HamothMcC.

APHORISMS. M.WIMS. APHRAATES, THE PERSIAN SAGE name lp « liii was known.

il :i

S

li.iii li.imili--l

of

ilu-

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The

•iirlheeiilury

w ritteii between the years are valuable to Ihe Jewish historian; for it may be conlidently asvrled that no church father was ever so strongly inlluenced by rabbinical Judaism as this defender of Christianity against Ihe .lews. Georgios. bishop of the Arabs (about 7S(n, notes .Aphraates' dependence upon Jewish diH'trine
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(SCO

and

Ilis

Ilis iioinilies,

'M'l.

letter

about Aphnuites in Wright, "The