Dally (Hastings' Dictionary)

Only Wis 12" ' correction, wherein he dallied with them.' By a bold anthropomorphism God is described as only sporting with the Egyptians in the lighter plagues that fell on them. The Gr. is iraiyvlois ^iriTi^iijfffwt, lit. ' play-games of correction' ; Vulg. ludibriia et increpationibus, Cov. ' scornes and rebukes,' Geneva 'scornful rebukes,' RV ' a mocking correction as of children.'

' Dally ' has now chiefly tlie sense of 'delay,' which easily arose from the older sense of ' sport,' as in Milton, Of Reformation (Prose Works, li. 410), 'Let us not dally with God when he offers us a full blessing ' j and Bunyan, Heavenly Footman (Clar. Press ed. p. 270), ' it is not good dallying with things of so great concernment, as the Salvation or Damnation of thy Soul.' J. Hastings. DALMANDTHA (laKimrovei.) is mentioned only in Mk 8'".

The corresponding statement of Alt (15^ RV) gives Magadan. In Tatian, Vuitessarun (Hill's ed. p. 134), it is Magheda. Rendel Harris (Study of Codex Bezce, p. 178) suggests that Dal- manutha may be simply a corruption from the Syriac ; but see Chase, Bezan Text of the Acts, p. 145 n'. On the variants in Mk see Chase, Syro- Latin Text of the Gospels, p. 97 f. The common reading Magdala is probably a substitution of a better for a less known place.

Ewald suggested that Magadan stands here for Megidon = Megiddj; but Eusebius says this Magadan was near Gera.sa. Thomson placesDalmanutha at Ed-Delemtyeh, one mile N. of the Jarmflk, at the S.E. comer of the Sea of Galilee. As the scene of the second Feeding of the Multitude is uncertain, and as there is nothing said to indicate in what direction the boat into which our Lord went was steered, ilie site of Dalmanutha cannot be determined with certainty.

Tristram sufjgests a site IJ mile from Migdel (Magdala), and Sir C. Wilson thinks it was not far from that. LiTKRATURB. — Besides the worlts mentioned above, consult Keiin. Jesux of A'a2ara(Kng. Tr.), iv. 23«ri.; Ederaheim, JesuM the Mfjsiah' (1887), ii. 07 fl. : Andrews. Life of our Lord, ed. 1»1)2, p. 338 ; Herz and Nestle m Expot. Times, viii. 663, ix. 45, 96. A. Hender-son. DALMATIA (AaX/iarfa) in apostolic times was an Ul-defined mountainous district on the E.

coast of the Adriatic, stretching towards Macedonia. In its more exact use, the name, which is not known DALPIION DAMASCUS 545 to the earlier Greek writers, was used of the S. portion of the Rora. province lUyricum, between the Drinus and the sea. In its more indefinite use it was practically another name for Illyricuiu. St. Paul preached the L'ospel in the district, or, at any rate, in its nei^-libourhood (Ro 15"), and duriuK his last imprisonment in Home it was visited by Titus (2 Ti 4'").

In our ignorance of the place where the apostle was arrested, we cannot determine either the exact time when Titus w as sent to D. or the reason why he was sent ; but it has been conjectured that, having failed to (ind St. Paul at Nicopolis as he expected (Ti 3"), he went on to Dalmatia. W. MuiB. DALPHON (i>eS Est ff), the second son of Haman, put to death by the Jews. In the LiXX