MEN OF THE BIBLE; SOME LESSER-KNOWN CHARACTERS by GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D. J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. ALFRED ROWLAND, D.D., LL.B. PRINCIPAL WALTER F. ADENEY, D.D. J. MORGAN GIBBON. H. ELVET LEWIS. PRINCIPAL D. ROWLANDS, B.A. W. J. TOWNSEND, D.D. 1904 CONTENTS 1. ENOCH By W. J. TOWNSEND, D.D. 2. ELDAD AND MEDAD By ALFRED ROWLAND, D.D., LL.B. 3. BARZILLAI By GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D. 4. ADONIJAH By ALFRED ROWLAND, D.D., LL.B. 5. HIRAM By W. J. TOWNSEND, D.D. 6. JEROBOAM By ALFRED ROWLAND, D.D., LL.B. 7. ASA By ALFRED ROWLAND, D.D., LL.B. 8. AHAZIAH By J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. 9. GEHAZI By J. MORGAN GIBBON 10. HAZAEL By J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. 11. MANASSEH By J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. 12. AMAZIAH By J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. 13. JABEZ By J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. 14. SIMEON By H. ELVET LEWIS 15. PONTIUS PILATE By Principal WALTER F. ADENEY, D.D. 16. BARABBAS By J. G. GREENHOUGH, M.A. 17. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA By ALFRED ROWLAND, D.D., LL.B. 18. PHILIP, THE EVANGELIST By GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D. 19. ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA By GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D. 20. DEMAS By Principal D. ROWLANDS, B.A. ENOCH, THE DEATHLESS BY REV. W. J. TOWNSEND, D.D. Enoch was the bright particular star of the patriarchal epoch. His record is short, but eloquent. It is crowded into a few words, but every word, when placed under examination, expands indefinitely. Every virtue may be read into them; every eulogium possible to a human character shines from them. He was a devout man, a fearless preacher of righteousness, an intimate friend of God, and the only man of his dispensation who did not see death. He sheds a lustre on the antediluvian age, and he shines still as an example to all generations of steady and lofty piety. It is difficult to realise the exact environment of the early patriarchs. Human society was then in its making. There were giants in those days, both physically and intellectually. They lived long, and unfolded a vigorous manhood, by which civilisation was developed in every direction. Some of them, also, were tenderly responsive to supernatural influences, and thus rose to a spiritual stature which enables them to bulk largely in sacred history. The guiding lines of Enoch's biography are clear though few. "_He walked with God_"; "_he pleased God_"; "_he was translated that he should not see death_." These are the pregnant remnants of his history, from which we may construct a character and career of striking eminence. I. "He walked with God."