HERMIT

one who lives apart from other | exce men. In the carly centuries of the Chris- | Com tian era it was no uncommon thing for | occa a man to retire to some solitary place the | delic better to commune with God. Paul, the) first Christian hermit, and St. Anthony, | impc both of whom lived in the 3rd century, | fairl: are among the most famous hermits. coas' These of course soon found imitators, of Pi whose great aim was to gain notoriety. babl, Among them was Simeon Stylites, who of b lived on the 4 of a pillar, and whose | leng ong followed by numerous fan a be in; as stylites or pillar-saints., to = HERMIT-CR AB, a kind of crab which, | adop having no shell to protect its abdomen, | knov seeks yom in the shells of whelks and other | 30 o: epiral led fish. As~it grows, it has joine from time to time to find a larger abode, | wall and as it docs not always wait to find an | bein: seats sted the proce of taking po esedze sion is sometimes attended with scenes of | find i: violence. See ~- tenant: <2) throt iy oN UNT, the highest summit | head of Anti-Lebanon, a range of mountains | seem in the south of Syria. It is frequently | and ae = a — in aig pale clean as it does, on the extreme | on bs uerthere border of Palestine, Ita height | very is 9,200 feet, and it is now called Jebel- | the c es-Sheikh, [s. 170]