joggle

[JOGGLE, v.] 1. Arch. ( pl.): Shoulders on a tru -post, support ing the lower ends of struts or braces. 2. Masonry: A joint-piece, or dowel-pin, let into the adjacent faces of two stones to preserve them in proper relative position. It may vary in form, and may approach in its shape either the dowel or cramp (q. v.). The stones of the Par the non at Athens were united by oak-joggles. joggle-beam, 8. name. Johannite Christians, s. pl. Ecclesiol.: The same as Christians of St. John. [JOHN, (1).] John (1), s . [Gr. Ioannes, from Heb. Yohanan = the gift of Jehovah, the name of ten persons mentioned in the Old Testament (2 Kings xxv. 23, 1 Chron. iii. 15, vi. 9, 10, . Cf. also Yonathan = given by Jehovah.] Script. Biog .: The name of four men mentioned in the New Testament. 1. John the Baptist. 2. John the Apostle. His father was Zebedee (Matt. iv. 21), his mother Salome (cf. Matt. xxvii. 56 with Mark xv. 40, xvi. 1). His father was a fisherman who kept hired servants (Mark. i. 20), and was therefore of some position. John was called with his brother James to follow Jesus (Matt. iv. 21). His nature was of that sensitive kind which is the temperament of genius, eloquence, pa ion, and love. In the first three gospels he figures as Boanerges, or Son of Thunder (Mark iii. 17), and in the exce of his zeal he wished to call down fire from heaven on a village of the Samaritans because "they did not receive" Jesus (Luke ix. 54). In the fourth gospel the loving elements of his charac ter alone appear. He was the disciple whom Jesus loved (John xx. 2). He was personally acquainted with Caiaphas, the high priest (John xvii. 15, 16, 19, 28). At the crucifixion the mother of Jesus was entrusted to his care, and he took her to his house (John xix. 27). With Peter he was early at the sepulcher (xx. 2-4). After the resurrection he remained at Jerusalem for at least fifteen years (Acts iii., iv.; cf. xv. 6 with Gal. ii. 9). Tradition a erts that he visited Rome, and was there, before the Latin Gate, plunged into a caldron of boiling oil, from which he was supernaturally delivered, so that he was a martyr though not in deed. The Roman Church commemorates this circumstance on May 6, under the title S. Johannes ante poisoned chalice was given him, he made the sign of the cro over it, and the poison fled from it in the form of an asp. At a later period he was ban vision (Rev. i. 9). Tradition makes his last sphere Ephesus, where he died at an advanced age. [2, joggle-piece, s . Carp.: The upright member in the middle of a 3,4; also REVELATION.] tru ; a king-post. joggle-post, s. Carp.: A post having shoulders to receive the feet of struts.