HERODIANS: A Jewish party in the time of Christ. They are mentioned in the Gospels in connection with the Pharisees as enemies of Jesus (Matt. xxii, 16; Mark iii. 6, xii. 13). Those who hold with some of the Fathers (Tertullian, Philastirus, Epiphanius) that they were a separate Jewish sect are certainly wrong. They were probably a political party, "the adherents of Herod," as Josephus called them (Ant. XIV., xv. 10). They were opposed to Christ, since they misunderstood the nature and purpose of his kingdom.

(F. Sieffert.)

Bibliography: C. T. Keim, Jaaw of Nazara, iii. 157 sqq., 6 vols., London, 1873-82; F. Renan, Life of Jesus, chap xxi., London, n.d.; DB, ii. 362; EB, ii. 2043; JE, vi. 360; and, in general, works on the life of Christ.

HERRICK, GEORGE FREDERICK: Congregational missionary; b. at Milton, Vt., Apr. 13, 1834 He was graduated at the University of Vermont (1856) and Andover Theological Seminary (1859

Since that year he has been a missionary of the American Board, and was likewise a professor in the Mission Theological Seminary in 1870-93, president of Anatolia College in 1890-93, and joint superintendent of the publications of the Turkish branch of his society in 1893-1903. He was also a member of the committee for the translation and revision of the Bible in Turkish in 1873-78 and 1883-85, and sole responsible editor of the same undertaking in 1898-1902. Theologically he is a conservative liberal. He has written in English Life of Rev. A. T. Pratt, MD. (Chicago, 1890), and in Turkish and Armenian worb on tt Church History " (Constantinople, 1873; also in ~reco Turkish, 1891); "Natural Theology" (1886); "Belief and Worship" (1886); "Introduction to Old Testament History and Prophecy" (1896; both Turkish and Armenian); Sunday-school notes covering the most of the books of the Bible (1895-1907).

HERRITES. See Mennonites

HERRMANN, JOHANN GEORG WILHELM: German Protestant; b. at Melkow, near Magdeburg, Dec. 6 1846. He studied at the University of Halle 1866-70, and four years later, after serving in

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the Franco-Prussian war, became privet-docent at Marburg. Since 1879 he has been professor of systematic theology in the same university, and has written Gregorii Nysseni sententite de salute adipiscenda (Halle, 1874); Die Religion im Verhdltnia zum Welterkennen and zur Sittlichkeit (1879); Der Verkehr der Christen mit Gott, im Anschluss an Luther dargestellt (Stuttgart, 1886); Ethik (Tübingen, 1901); and Die sittlieben Weissagungen Jesu (Göttingen, 1904).