Chapel (Hastings' Dictionary)

The Prankish kings looked with special reverence on the cnpelln or cloak of St. Martin, which was carried before them in battle and invoked in oaths. The name capella was then used for the sanctuary in whicli its capellani guarded this treasure. By steps which can readily be traced, the same designation came to be given to any sanctuary attached to a palace and containing holy relics, to any private sanctuary, to any room or building for worsliip, not being a church. Our AV em]j!oys its English equivalent chapel at Am 7'^, but the RV lias discarded this in favour of sanctuary. The latter comes nearer the mean- ing of the original, mikdaxh, which signifies a holy place. The former, however, aptly suggests th.at dependence on the king which was one of the characteristics of the sanctuary at Bethel. As an English Chapel Royal is not a parish church belong- ing to the public, but a place of worship under the control and meant for the use of the sovereign, so were such buildings as that at Bethel intended primarily for the kin". Itwas by his permission that the people found a place there. Even at Jerusalem, Solomon built temple and palace in close proximity to each other : cf. Ezk 43*. Chapel occurs also in 1 Mac 1" (RV 'shrine'), 2 Mac lO''' (RV 'sacred in closure '), 11' (RV ' sacred place '). J. TAYLOR. CHAPHEXATHA CHARGER 371 CHAPHENATHA (Xa<pevaei), 1 Mac 12".— Close to Jerus. on the east. Unknown. CHAPITER (from Lat. caput, throngh the FreUL-li) is now displaced, in ordinary speech, by the connate form 'capital,' which the Anierican Revision Company wisli to substitute for tlie older form retained by the IJritish Kevisers. 1. n-;n3, LXX iriSefw., the spherical capital, 5 cubits hi;,'h, of each of Uie two great brazen pillars — J ACUIN and