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this the eunuch frankly acknowledged that he flood in 
need of an interpreter; and, concluding either from 
Philip’s appearance or queltion that he could explain it, 
requefted that he would come up and fit with him in his 
carriage. He then aflced him, whether the prophet, in the 
words which he had read, predicted fufierings which 
fhould happen to himfelf, or to fome other perfon ? Such 
a queftion afforded Philip a fair opportunity of explain¬ 
ing to him the prophecies of the Old Teftament relating 
to the Meffiah, and fhowing how exadlly they were ac- 
com pi idled in the perfon and charafter of Jefus Chrift:. 
This he did with fuch clearnefs and force as fully fatisfied 
the mind of his attentive hearer, who, having learnt that 
baptifm was the rite of initiation into the Ciiriftian com¬ 
munity, when they came to a fpot where there was a 
fpring or ft ream of water, requefted that Philip would ad- 
minifter it to him. With this requeft the evangelift 
complied, after receiving from his convert the fhort and 
fimple confeflion of faith with which the primitive Chrif- 
tians were fatisfied, that Jefus Chrift was the Son of God, 
or the promifed Meffiah, (A£ls viii. 26.) Immediately 
after the ceremony, Philip was removed inftantaneoufly 
out of the fight of the eunuch by an invifible agent ; and 
quickly afterwards found himfelf at Azotus, or Afhdod, 
where he preached the Gofpel with great fuccefs, as well 
as in the other cities on the coaft of the Mediterranean 
Sea, till he came to Csefarea, where Providence diredled 
him to fettle for a confiderable time. Here, feveral years 
afterwards, he received St. Paul and his company when 
travelling from Ptolemais to Jerufalem; and Sir: Luke 
mentions this circumftanee concerning him, that he had 
four unmarried daughters who were all prophetefies. 
(Afts xxi. 8, 9.) How long he lived after this vifit of 
the apollle, or whether he made any more excurfions for 
the propagation of the Ciiriftian faith, we are not inform¬ 
ed. It is probable that he died a peaceable death at 
CaTarea, where his houfe, and the apartments of his virgin 
daughters, were to be feen in the time of St. Jerome. 
PHIL'IP the Solitary, a Greek monk who flouriflied 
about the year 1095. He was the author of a curious 
philofophical treatife, entitled, “ Dioptra, five Amuflis 
Fidei et Vitae Chriftianae ad Callinicum monacum verfibus 
politices, ac Forma Dialog! inter Animam et Camera, 
Lib. V.” with teftimonies from the ancient fathers inter¬ 
mixed with the context. The original of this work is il- 
luftrated with a commentary by a Greek writer, in the 
form of notes. At the perfuafion of Dionyfius, metro¬ 
politan of Mitylene, Jsfrnes Pontanus undertook a Latin 
verfion of this piece, which contains only four of the 
books, and t'nofe greatly interpolated, as well as confuted 
in point of order. It was given to the public in his 
“Verfio et Notae in varios Auctores Graecos,” edited at 
Ingoldftadt in 1604, folio. 
PHIL'IP of HARviNGEN,an eminent abbot of Hainault, 
in the twelfth century, fometimes diftinguifhed by the title 
of the Almoner , on account of his bountiful charities to 
the poof. He was born'a^the village whence he derived 
his furname, and embraced the monadic life at the Abbey 
of Good Hope, one of the principal houfes belonging to 
the Piemontre order, and in the neighbourhood of Binche. 
His merits raifed him to the Ration of prior under the 
abbot Odo; and, while he held this poll, he wrote fome 
fevere letters to St. Bernard, reclaiming a fugitive monk 
whorn the latter had received into the abbey of Clairvaux. 
Thefe letters gave the faint fuch offence, that he preferred 
a formal complaint again ft the writer to Odo, who de- 
pofed Philip, and banilhed him to another monaftery. 
During his exile, he folicited and obtained a reconciliation 
with St. Bernard, with whom he afterwards, maintained 
a correfpondence and intimate friend (hip. In the year 
1155 he was lecalled to his monaftery, and foon after 
promoted to the dignity of abbot. The duties of this 
office he difeharged with great prudence and mildnefs, 
exerting all the means in his power to promote the inte- 
refts of kience and literature, and fetting an example of 
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ftudious induftry to excite the emulation of his monks. 
He died after the year 1180. He was the author of, 1. 
Commentarius Myfticus in Cantica Canticorum. 2. Mo- 
ralitates in Cantica Canticorum. 3. Quseftiones Theo- 
logicse in xxi. Literis Tradlatae. 4. De Clericorum, 
Dignitate, Scientia, Juftitia, &c. Tradlatus VI. 5. De 
Somnio Nebuchodonoforis. 6. De Lapfu primi Hominis. 
7. Vita S. Auguftini Hipponenfis. 8. Vita S. Amandi, 
Abbatis Tungrenfis; and various other lives, poems,&c. 
all of which were collefted together, and publilhed by 
father Chamart, one of his fuccelfors in the abbey, under 
the title of “D. Philippi Bonas Spei, Sacri Ordinis Prae- 
monftratenfis Auftoris Difertiflimi, &c. Opera Omnia,” 
1623, folio. Gen. Biog. 
PHIL'IP I'SLANDS, two i(lands in the South Pacific 
Ocean, difeovered by Capt. Hunter, in the year 1791,011 
his return from New South-Wales to England. He fays, 
“ On the 14th of July, in the morning, we law land, bear¬ 
ing north 5 this we found to be two i(lands, joined toge¬ 
ther, or nearly fo, by a long fandy fpit, above water, u'hich 
reached for about two-thirds of the diftance from the 
eaftmoft or largeft iftand, to the weftmoft, which is (mall. 
All round the largeft is a fand-bank above water, which 
extends from the foot of the higher land about half a 
mile into the fea, and may have (lioal-water from it. We 
faw on the beach a few natives running along (bore, as 
the (hip failed pad. Thefe illands are dangerous to (hips 
in the night, on account of the fandy (pits which project 
from them; they were covered with (liru'os, and had but few 
tall trees on them, and the land is but low ; the latitude 
of the large or eaftmoft iftand is 8° 6' S. and longitude 
140 0 3' E. I did at firft fuppofe them to have been a part 
of the New Carolines, but they feem to lie quite alone, 
and are about five miles afunder. I called them Philip 
Illands, after Arthur Philip, the governor of New South 
ill cs • 19 
PHIL'IP’s NORTON. See Norton St. Philip. 
PHIL'IP SZA'LAZ. See Szalaz. 
PHIL1PHAU'GH, a village of Scotland, near Selkirk. 
In 1646, the brave Montrofe was defeated here by 
Leftey, 
PHILIPPEAU', an iftand, twenty-four miles in cir¬ 
cumference, fituated in the north-weft part of Lake Su¬ 
perior, in North America. Late 48 12. N. Ion. 88. 58. W. 
PHILIPPEAU', a bay of the gulf of St. Laurence, near 
the Straits of Bellifle. Lat. 51. 20. N. Ion. 55.40. V/. 
PHILIPPEVIL'LE, a town'of the kingdom of the Ne¬ 
therlands, in the province of Namur. It was built in 
1555, on the fite of the village of Corbigny; and Charles 
V. named it after his fon Philip, who fucceeded him on 
the throne of Spain. It was ceded to France by the treaty 
of the Pyrennees in 1659, and the fortifications were 
ftrengthened by Louis XIV. It was handed over to the 
newly-created kingdom of the Netherlands by the treaty 
of Paris, Nov. 20,1815. It is five leagues from Charleroi, 
and (even from Namur. Geographic ties Pays Bus, 1819. 
PHILIP'PI, in ancient geograph}', a town of Macedo¬ 
nia, at a fmall diftance towards the eaft from Mount 
Pangseus, near the fea. Its firft name was Credinas, and 
(race Datus. It occupied the fummit of a fmall eminence. 
Philip, the father of Alexander, having taken pofielfion 
of it, fortified it and gave it his own name. The Romans 
eftablifhed in it a colony. It was fituated on the great 
route from Thefl’alonica. It is mentioned in the Adis of 
the Apoftlts. St. Paul preached here, and wrought mira¬ 
cles; and addrefted an Epiftle to its inhabitants. It is 
alfo remarkable for being the birth-place of Adraftus, the 
Peripatetic philofopher, and difeipie of Ariftotle. The 
town is dill in being, and is an archbifhop’s fee; but 
greatly decayed and badly peopled. Plowever, there is 
an old amphitheatre, and feveral other monuments of its 
ancient grandeur. Laf. 41. o. N. Ion. 44. 55. E. 
Some have thought it was on a plain near this town 
that Brutus and Caftius were defeated by Auguftus and 
Mark Anthony ; as to which, fee the article Rome. 
A a PHILIP'PI, 
