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more easily reached than when the pre of thoughts interrupts communication. In Biblical cases the suspicion of deception is excluded partly by the extraordinary divine force of the impression, partly by its appeal to the conscience; on the other hand, the dream is often represented as a vain and empty thing (Job. xx. 8; Pa. lxxiii. 20). Symbolic dreams are also known to the Bible, the meaning of which is not attainable to the worldly-wise, but only to those to whom God has granted the gift of interpretation. Such dreams came to a Joseph and a Daniel. While many examples confirm the use of the dream as a means of revelation, it is not for the people of God the only means, and it is, besides, used as a medium by which God comes into contact with other than his own people. There were other means of self-revelation of God, however, especially in the word of the prophets who often received their oracles while in possession of full consciousness. A species of revelation standing midway between these two was the dreamvieion (Job iv. 13-21). To this class belong the experiences of Solomon (I Kings iii. 5) and Daniel (Dan. vii. i). The prophets generally do not speak of dreams se the source of their inspiration, and the Arabs distinguish between prophetic insight and the dream. Zechariah's vision (Zech. i. 8 aqq.) was not a dream (cf. iv. 1). Jeremiah speaks of the misuse of dreams and disparages them (Jer. xxiii. 25 aqq.) on the ground that they are often the product of the wish of the heart. Deut. xiii. 2 aqq. gives a criterion for the testing of prophetic dreams. The later Jews paid much attention to these phenomena, and the Eesenea seem to have done the same (Joeephus, Ant., XVII. xiii. 3). See DrvnrATlOrr. (C. VON OREI.LL)

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Knobel, Prophetiamw der Hebrltar, i. 174 eqq., Breslau, 1837; F. Delitaach, Bibliache P syenolopie, pp. 233 eqq.. LeiPeia, 1881, Eng. trsnal.. Edinburgh, 1887: W. B. Carpenter, Mental Physiology, London, 1878; F. E. Honig, Offenbarungebegriff des A. T., ii. 9 eqq., 83 eqq., Leipaic, 1882; G. F. Oehler, Tluokpis den d. T., pp. 218 eQq., 743 eqq.: Stuttgart, 1882, Eng. trsnel., New York, 1883; C. von Orelli, A7tteetamenUichs Weisaagunpes, pp. 17-18, Vienna, 1882, Eng. tranal., Old Testament Prophecy, Edinburgh. 1885; E. Clodd, Myths and Dreams, London, 1886: H. Schultz, ALeteeta· fnenUiche Thsolopia, Gottingen, 1888, Eng. trsnsl., London, 1892; J. W. Reynolds, Natural Hist. of Immortality, pp. 124-139, ib. 1891; DB, i. 822-623; EB, i. 1118-19.

DRELI7YCOURT, drb"Iati"cOr', CHARLES: French Reformed pastor; b. at Sddan July 10, 1595; d. in Paris Nov. 3, 1869. He was educated at Sbdan and Saumur, and was pastor of the Reformed Church of Charenton, near Paris, from 1620 to his death. He was a prolific writer, and two of his works achieved extraordinary success: Consolations de l'Bme ftdb7e contre lee frayeurs de la mort, reprinted, in more than forty editions, as late as Mines, 1819, Eng. tranal.; The Christian's Defence against the Fears of Death (4th ed., London, 1701; 27th ed., Liverpool, 1810; the sale of the translation is said to have been promoted by Defoe's True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to one Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1706, London, 1706, in which the dead lady recommended Drelincourt'e book. Defoe's work is included in many editions

of the translation). Drelincourt's other important work was Yiaixes charitables ou consolations chrbtiennes pour toutea lea Peraonnes affligEes (5 vole., Charenton, 1689, and often, translated into six languages). In English the work appeared in five small volumes, each devoted to a visit upon a particu4ar class of afflicted persons (London, 1785).

BIBLIOGRAPHY- A Memoir is affixed to the ninth and subsequent editions of The Christina's De/sees, London, 171£. Consult E. sad L. Haag, La France proteataats, ed. H. L. Bordier, Paris, 1877-88 (contains imperfect lief of his writings); Lichtenberger, E$ft, iv. 81-84.

DRESS AND ORNAMENT, HEBREW.

In the Old Testament there is no description of clothing and articles of adornment. The archeologist, therefore, has to rely upon ancient Egyptian and Babylonian-Assyrian portraiture and observation of present customs. The most ancient article of dress was the apron or girdle (ezor, h, agor, sak), a simple piece of cloth (Jer. xiii. 1) or leather (Il

Kings i. 8) thrown about the loins. ><. The In all periods it was the moat usual Apron or garment in Egypt, though of course

Egyptian pictures it appears also as the dress of the Bedouin; and it has been preserved in the ihr8m worn by pilgrims in Mecca. The Old Testament mentions the girdle as worn by Assyrian warriors (Ian. v. 27; Ezek. xxiii: 15). Among the Israelites the girdle survived as the dress of those consecrated to God (II Kings i. 8; Is&. xx. 2; Jer. xiii. 1 sqq.) and as the vestment of the high priest. As ask it was worn for mourning (see MOURNING Cusxonts; HEBREW), either alone or under another garment (II Kings vi. 30). Otherwise the kttttoneth, or shirt, took the place of the girdle. In Assyrian art this appears as a tight-fitting undergarment, sometimes reaching only to the knee, sometimes to the ankle. It corresponded to the undergarment of the fellah of to-day: a rough cotton tunic of s faded blue color, open at the breast, with loose sleeves and a girdle around the hips to hold the garment out of the way in walking or working. Such moat have been the Hebrew klartoneth, though it reached only to the knees. The longer coat, with long sleeves, was especially for women, being unusual for men (Gee. xxxvii. 3; II Sam. xiii. 18). A still finer garment was the sadin, a linen shirt that the well-to-do wore under the kuttoneth (Judges xiv. 12; Prov. xxxi. 24; Isa. iii. 23). It was of Cansanitic origin and is mentioned in the Amarna tablets.

The aimla, or overdress, had various fortes. Egyptian representations of Bedouins show it as a loose wrap that leaves one shoulder and both arms free. It was a heavy shawl, such as is still found among Bedouins. The ancient Babylonians wore a similar garment. Among -the Hebrews this was probably the mantle of the common people; later it developed into the present shays, the mantle of the fellaha and Bedouin. Thin is a large quadran-