HUSHIM (n,c3n; Sept.'AT6A; 'Acri.b/.4), a name which occurs first in the catalogue of the descen dants of Jacob, and is used to designate the chil dren of Dan (Gen. xlvi. 23). The form of the word being plural, it is understootl to mean, as obvi ously intended, not an individual member of the family or tribe, but the tribe itself. In the corre sponding catalogue in Num. xxvi. 26 the name is Shuham. We meet with the same name in the genealog,y of Benjamin ; first, as above, in the plural fonn, used to designate the sons of Aher (7 Chron. vii. 72) ; second, as the name of one of the two wives of Shaharim Chron. viii, 8). The name of the other was Baara. Hushim was the mother of his two sons Abitub and Elpaul.—W. J. C.
of a sweet, amiable, loving, and compassionate disposition.' The works which he has left behind him are all of an expository character—A brkf exposition of the twelve small prophets, Lond. 1655 ; Exposition of the Gospel of yesus Christ according to John, 1657 ; An exposition npon yob, being the sum of three hundred and sixteen lectures, 1669 ; and Forty five sermons upon the 13ollz Psalm, 7697. A treatise on the Confession of Faith was never pub lished.
Hutcheson was one of the divines who laboured in concert to produce expositions extending over the whole of Scripture. Considering his associates in the work, Dickson, Ferguson, Nisbet, and others, it is no small praise if we rank him at the head of them. Perhaps the circumstance that he so far conformed as to accept an indulgence, though he still held to the intrinsic jurisdiction of the church so firmly as to have been summoned before the council for his conduct, may have diminished his popularity as an author. At all events, his
works, with the exception of his Commentary on John recently published by Ward, have not been reprinted, though some of them in the author's lifetime ran through three editions. His method is much the same in all his works. He has what he terms a resolution of the context,' followed by an explication of particular sentences,' after which, when needed, there is a general view of the doc trine or principle urged in the passage, on which he comments. His thinking is invariably clear and definite, with a gmcefulness of expression at times quite remarkable for that age. There is no great fervency in his composition, at least in his strictly expository works, probably from his habits of strict adherence to the task of exposition. Ed , mund Calamy speaks strongly in commendation of his labours, and yet not more strongly than his ments as an expositor warrant, when, in a preface to one of Hutcheson's works, that emine.nt divine remarks, His observations are so excellent and suitable, and sometimes so unexpected and yet so natural, that I verily believe they will be very acceptable not only to private Christians, but also and especially to ministers.' With equal justice Calamy gives him credit for a quality which few authors of that day possessed his book, while it breathes out much of God and godliness,' at the same time 'comprehends much in little—NV . H. G.