These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Judas, Judas Iscariot, Judd.
the 4th son of Jacob and and Leah, and the head of the tribe of that of that Judah that Jacob de name. It was to Judah that Jacob declared that the scepter should not depart ter should not depart from it till the coming of the Messiah; the Messiah; a prediction fulfilled in the advent of the advent of ed Christ.
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or JUDE, brother of James, one of the 12 apostles. Matthew and Mark call him Thaddæus surnamed of bie Lebbæus. Nothing is known of his life. The General Epistle of Jude. - A short epistle thought by many to have been penned by Judc. So much of Jude's epistle is like II Peter, that portions of the one seem to have been transcribed from the other.
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one of the 12 oftbis Master, apostles, and betrayer of his Master. For the paltry sum of about $ 15 he engaged with the Jewish Sanhedrim to guide them to a place where they could seize his Lord by night without danger of a tumult. But when he learned the result, a terrible remorse took possession in wundoing his of him; not succeeding in undoing his he cast fatal work with the priests, he cast down before them the price of blood, crossed the gloomy valley of Hinnom, and hanged himself (Matt. xxvii: 3-10); or fell headlong and burst asunder (Luke xxii.; in Acts i: 18). Sea MAG- JUDAS MACCABÆUS. See MAC- CABEES. ther of James,
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a genus of trees of the natural order Leguminosæ, sub-order Cæsalpinex. The common Judas' tree is of a native of the S. of Europe and of the warmer temperate parts of Asia. It has almost orbicular, very obtuse leaves. The flowers, which are rose-colored, ap- There is pear before the leaves. There is a legend that Judas hanged himself on a tree of this kind. The American Judas' tree is very similar, but has acuminate leaves. The flower buds are frequently used in salads and pickled in vinegar. The wood of both species is very beautiful, veined with black, and takes an exshoots of the cellent polish. The young shoots of the sed in dormes American Judas' tree are used in domestie dyeing and impart a fine color to wool. as American
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SYLVESTER, an American novelist and theologian; born in West- 1813. He hampton, Mass., July 23, 1813. He Margaret" Margare wrote a remarkable novel " and "Richard Edney," another romance, "Philo" a poem, and "The Church," dista, Mn., Jan. He died in Augusta, Me., Jan. courses. 20, 1853. JUDE. See JUDAS.
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the head of the bureau of justice in the Army. He is, in the United States, the legal adviser of the Secretary of War and holds the rank of brigadier general . He keeps the records of all trials by court-martial, and of all the reports of military commissions. Unlike the United States, the Judge -Advocate-General in England is selected from the civil one to
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BOOK OF, the 7th book in order of the Old Testament . It was named Judges because at the period to which it refers Israel was ruled by men of that designation (See JUDGE). It consists of five sections : a first introduction (i-ii:5), a second one (ii: 6iii: 6), the main portion or consecutive narrative (iii: 7-xvi: 31), the first appendix (xviixviii.), and the second one (xix-xxi.), Two authors seem to have been at work on it, each falling back on ancient documents. It has been always accepted as canonical. In the New Testament it is referred to in Acts xiii: 20 and Heb xi: 32.
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in law, a determination, decision, or sentence of a judge or court in any case, civil or criminal. In logic, the comparing together in the mind twe of the notions, or ideas, which are the objects of apprehension, whether complex or incomplex, and pronouncing that they agree or disagree with each other, or that one of them belongs or does not belong to the other. Judgment is therefore af firmative or negative; as, snow is white ; all white men are not Europeans. In metaphysics, that faculty of the human mind by which judgments are formed. Kant defines it as "the faculty by which the particular is conceived as contained under the universal ." In Scripture, (1) Singular: (a) The sentence of a judge. (b) Justice (Is . xxxiii: 5) . (c) The punishment which justice inflicts; specially, a calamity sent by God as a penal infliction on account of national or other sin (Exod. xii: 12; II Chron. xx: 9, xxii: 8). (2) Plural: The civil and criminal enactments of the Mosaic code, as distinguished from the ceremonial and the moral laws (Exod. xii: 12; Ps. cxix: 7, 13, 20, 39 , 43, 62 , etc.) Judgment of God, a term applied to several of the old forms of trial by ordeal, as single combat , walking upon red-hot plowshares, etc. as a
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whom a court of law has awarded a certain sum of money as damages , etc., payable by the other party in the case.
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a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order, and in respect of which he can at any time attach the debtor's goods and chattels. Such debts have the preference of being ecured to paid in full, as compared with simple contract debts.
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the 4th of the apocryphal books. The narrative opens with the "twelfth year in the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineve, the great city." That potentate, finding his armies thwarted in their progress to the W. resolved to take signal vengeance. His chief opponents were the Israelites, who fortified themselves in Bethulia. While Holofernes, his general, was besieging this stronghold, the heroine of the book, China Medical Board, 1914. Judith, the beautiful widow of Manasses, include: " Cæsar's Army, went forth to the Assyrians, pretending the Military Art of the Bethulle that she had deserted her people. She (1885); "Europe in the Nineteenth Assyrian fascinated Holofernes, who after a time Century"; "The Growth of the Ameriinfii took her to his tent, where, as he was can Nation." book lying drunk, she cut off his head, escap-
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