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perpetual covenant, becaufe he has made atonement for 
the crime of the children of Ifrael.” This promife that 
the Lord made to Phineas, to give him the priefthood by 
a perpetual covenant, interpreters obferve, evidently 
included this tacit condition, that his children ftiould 
continue faithful and obedient; fince we know that the 
priefthood palled out of the family of Eleazar and Phineas 
to that of Ithamar, and that it returned not to the polte- 
rity of Eleazar till after about 150 years. 
This is what we find concerning the tranflation of the 
high-priefthood from one family to the other. This 
dignity continued in the race of Phineas, from Aaron 
down to the high-prieft Eli, for about 335 years. The 
manner and caufes of this change are unknown. It re¬ 
entered again into the family of Eleazar, under the reign 
of Saul, when this prince having put to death Abimelech, 
and the other priefts of Nob, he gave the high-priefthood 
to Zadok, who was of the race of Phineas. At the fame 
time, David had Abiathar with him, of the race of Eli, 
who performed thefunCiions of high-prieft. So that, after 
the death of Saul, David continued the priefthood to 
Zadok and Abiathar conjointly. But towards the end of 
David’s reign, Abiathar having efpoufed the intereft of 
Adonijah, to the prejudice of Solomon, he was in difgrace, 
and Zadok only was acknowledged as high-prieft. The 
priefthood continued in his family till after the captivity 
of Babylon, and even to the deftruCiion of the temple. 
But from the beginning of Zadok’s priefthood alone, and 
the exclufion of Abiathar, to the ruin of the temple, is 
1084 years. 
We read of another memorable a&ion of Phineas, in 
■which he ftill fhowed his zeal for the Lord. This was 
when the Ifraelites that were beyond Jordan had 
raifed upon the banks of this river a vaft heap of earth; 
(Joflt. xxii. 30, 31.) Tiiofe on the other fide, fearing that 
they were going to forfake the Lord, and fet up another 
religion, deputed Phineas and other chief men among 
them, to go and inform themfelves of the reafon of ereCt- 
ing this monument. But, when they had found that it 
was in commemoration of their union and common 
original, Phineas took occafion from thence to praife the 
Lord, faying, “We know that the Lord is with us, fince 
you are not guilty of that prevarication we fufpefted you 
were.” 
We do not exaflly know the time of the death of 
Phineas. But, as he lived after the death of Jofhua, and 
before the firft fervitude under Chnftian-riftiathaim, during 
the time that there were neither kings nor judges in the 
land, and every one did what was right in his own eyes, 
(Judges xvii. 6. xviii. 1. xxi. 24.) his death is put about 
the year of the world 2590. It was under his pontificate 
that the ftory of Micah happened, as alfo that of the 
tribe of Dan, when they made a conqueft of Lriifh; and 
the enormity that was committed upon the wife of the 
Levite of the mountain of Ephraim; (Judges xx. 28.) 
Phineas’s fucceffor in the nigh-priefthood was Abiezer 
or Abifttuah. 
PHINE'US, in fabulous hiftory, was a fon of Agenor, 
king of Phoenicia, or according to fome of Neptune. He 
became king of Thrace, or, as the greater part of the my- 
tbologifts lupport, of Bithynia. He married Cleopatra 
the daughter of Boreas, whom fome call Cleobula, by 
whom he had Plexippus and Pandion. After the death 
of Cleopatra, he married Idsea, the daughter of Dardanus. 
Idaa, jealous of Cleopatra’s children, accufed them of 
attempts upon their father’s life and crown, or, according 
to fome, of attempts upon her virtue ; on which they were 
condemned by Phineus to be deprived of their eyes. This 
cruelty was foon after puniftied by the gods; Phineus 
fuddenly became blind, and the harpies were lent by 
Jupiter to keep him under continual alarm, and to fpoil 
the meats which were placed on his table. He was fome 
time after delivered from thefe dangerous monfters by 
his brothers-in-law Zetes and Calais. He alfo recovered 
his fight by means of the Argonauts, whom he had re- 
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ceived with great hofpitality, and inftrufled in the eafieft 
and fpeedieft way by which they could arrive in Colchis. 
The fecond wife of Phineus is called by fome Dia, 
Eurytia, Danae, and Idothea. Phineus was at length 
killed by Hercules. 
PHINE'US, brother of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia. He 
was going to marry his niece Andromeda, when her father 
was obliged to give her up to be devoured by a fea-mon- 
fter, to appeafe the refentment of Neptune. She was, 
however, delivered by Perfetis, who married her by the 
confent of her parents, for having deftroyed the fea-mon- 
fter. This marriage difpleafed Phineus: he interrupted 
the ceremony, and, with a number of attendants, attacked 
Perfeus and his friends. Perfeus defended himfelf, and 
turned into (tone Phineus and his companions, by.ihowing 
them the Gorgon’s head. See Perseus, vol. xix. p. 654. 
PHINTO'NIS IN'SULA, in ancient geography, an 
iftand of the Mediterranean, between Sardinia and Cor- 
fica. 
PHIPPS (Conftantine-John), Lord Mulgrave, an emi¬ 
nent Englilh circumnavigator, was born in 1746, and 
died in 1792. See the article North Pole, vol. xvii. 
p. 191. 
PHIPPS’s I'SLAND, an iftand in the Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago ; about eight miles in circumference. Lat. 10. 
8. N. 
PHIRSO'VA, a town of Ruftia, in the government of 
Tobolfk: twenty miles eaft-north-eaft of Ifchim.—A 
town of Ruftia, in the government of Irkutlk, on the 
Amur : twenty miles north of Stretenlk. 
PHI'SON, in ancient geography, a town of Alia, in 
Armenia : eight miles north-weft of Martyropolis. 
PHITIU'SA, or Pitiusa, an iftand of the Aigean Sea, . 
in the vicinity of the Peloponnefus. 
PHIZ, f [formed by contraction from phyjiognomy ; 
and Ihould therefore, if it be written at all, be written 
phyz.~\ The face, in a fenfe of contempt: 
His air was too proud, and his features amifs. 
As if being a traitor had altered his phiz. Stepney. 
PHLA, an iftand of Africa, in the Triton Lake, in 
Libya, according to Herodotus. 
PHLAGU'SA, a town in the neighbourhood of Troy, 
fituated in the Cherfonefus. 
PHLEBOCARY'A, f. [from <£>As\J/, (pAs/Sos, a vein, and 
y.xpvcu, a nut. Brown's Prodr. Nov. Holl. i. 301.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs hexandria, order monogynia, 
natural order of hasmodoraceas. Generic eflential cha¬ 
racters—Petals fix, luperior, beardlefs,permanent; ftamens 
inferted into the bafe of each petal; antherae fquare, 
nearly feftile; germen of one cell, with three feeds; ftyle 
thread-ftiaped; ftigma fimple; nut coated, crowned, 
fingle-feeded. 
Pblebocarya ciliata, the only fpecies. Gathered by 
Mr. Brown on the fouth coaft of New Holland. A pe¬ 
rennial herb, with fcarcely any Item. Leaves in two 
rows, narrow-fword-fhaped, fringed. Flowers fmall, with 
a folitary braCte to each. 
PHLEBOLI'THIS,/. [from <pAei<pAej 3 oj, a vein, and 
AiOi;, a little ltone; fo called by Gaertner, on account of 
the numerous white veins lining the hard fhell of the 
nut.] A plant of which Gaertner took his defcription and 
figure from a fpecimen in the collection of feeds at the 
Amfterdam garden, without knowing any thing of the 
plant, or even the entire fruit to which it belonged. 
Juflieu obferves, that this feed feems akin to Mimusops, 
and indeed the author himfelf had already advanced the 
fame opinion. See Gasrtn. i. 201, 202. t. 43. f. 2. 
PHLEBORRHA'GIA,/. [from the Gr. (pAsifo a vein, 
and ^rrympi, to break.] The burfting of a vein. 
PHLEBOT'OMUM,yi An inftrument to let blood. 
PHLEBOT'OMUS, f. A furgeon that lets blood. 
Phillips. 
PHLEBOT'OMIST, f. [from phlebotomy .] One that 
opens a vein ; a blood letter. 
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