JEVER, a circle of the grand duchy of Oldenburg, in Germany, extending over 165 square miles, and containing, in twenty-four parishes, 4140 houses and 20,105 inhabitants. It is a level country, on the sea shore, and preserved from inundation by powerful dykes and sluices.
1 There are several manuscripts of this epistle, none of them, however, older than the fourteenth century. One of these was brought forward about twenty years ago as newly discovered in the library of the Vatican, and treated as a matter of much importance. The subject was taken up in a work entitled "In disposita Epistolæ Publii Lentuli ad Senatū Romanū de Jesu Christ. scriptæ denuo inquirit J. P. Gables," 1819, in which the whole question is fully discussed. An exposure of the fabrication is also to be found in the American Biblical Repository, vol. ii. p. 367.
2 Boland, ad d. 4 Feb.
3 Hist. Eccles. vii. 18.
4 Soz. v. 21; Philostorg. vii. 3.
5 Giesler's Kirchengeschichte, i. p. 79.
6 De Trin. 4, 5.
The capital, of the same name, is a fortified city, containing two churches, 650 houses, and 3460 inhabitants. There is a gymnasium, and the boards for the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the circle are held here. It has some foreign trade, consisting chiefly in the exportation of corn. Long. 7. 47. 36. E. Lat. 53. 34. 30. N.