ELI
       Embedded LISP Interpreter (Andrew mail system)

	

	ELI

   1.  An early system on the IBM 705 and IBM 650.

   [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].

   2. Embedded Lisp Interpreter.

	

	Eli
   ascent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3,
   9). He was the first of the line of Ithamar, Aaron's fourth son
   (1 Chr. 24:3; comp. 2 Sam. 8:17), who held that office. The
   office remained in his family till the time of Abiathar (1 Kings
   2:26, 27), whom Solomon deposed, and appointed Zadok, of the
   family of Eleazar, in his stead (35). He acted also as a civil
   judge in Israel after the death of Samson (1 Sam. 4:18), and
   judged Israel for forty years.
   
     His sons Hophni and Phinehas grossly misconducted themselves,
   to the great disgust of the people (1 Sam. 2:27-36). They were
   licentious reprobates. He failed to reprove them so sternly as
   he ought to have done, and so brought upon his house the
   judgment of God (2:22-33; 3:18). The Israelites proclaimed war
   against the Philistines, whose army was encamped at Aphek. The
   battle, fought a short way beyond Mizpeh, ended in the total
   defeat of Israel. Four thousand of them fell in "battle array".
   They now sought safety in having the "ark of the covenant of the
   Lord" among them. They fetched it from Shiloh, and Hophni and
   Phinehas accompanied it. This was the first time since the
   settlement of Israel in Canaan that the ark had been removed
   from the sanctuary. The Philistines put themselves again in
   array against Israel, and in the battle which ensued "Israel was
   smitten, and there was a very great slaughter." The tidings of
   this great disaster were speedily conveyed to Shiloh, about 20
   miles distant, by a messenger, a Benjamite from the army. There
   Eli sat outside the gate of the sanctuary by the wayside,
   anxiously waiting for tidings from the battle-field. The full
   extent of the national calamity was speedily made known to him:
   "Israel is fled before the Philistines, there has also been a
   great slaughter among the people, thy two sons Hophni and
   Phinehas are dead, and the ark of God is taken" (1 Sam.
   4:12-18). When the old man, whose eyes were "stiffened" (i.e.,
   fixed, as of a blind eye unaffected by the light) with age,
   heard this sad story of woe, he fell backward from off his seat
   and died, being ninety and eight years old. (See ITHAMAR.)
   
     Eli, Heb. eli, "my God", (Matt. 27:46), an exclamation used by
   Christ on the cross. Mark (15:34), as usual, gives the original
   Aramaic form of the word, Eloi.

	

	Eli, Eli, my God, my God

	

	Eli, the offering or lifting up