Son of Perdition (The), Judas Iscariot.--John xvii. 12.
Son of Perdition, Antichrist.--2 Thess. ii. 3.
Son of a Star (The), Barcochebas, or Barchochab, who gave himself out to be the “star” predicted by Balaam (died A.D. 135).
There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.--Numb. xxiv. 17.
Son of the Last Man. Charles II. was so called by the parliamentarians. His father, Charles I., was called by them “The Last Man.”
Son of the Rock, echo.
She went. She called on Armar. Nought answered but the son of the rock.--Ossian, The Songs of Selma.
Sons of Phidias, sculptors.
Sons of Thunder, or Boanerges, James and John, sons of Zebedee.--Mark iii. 17.
Sonderby (John), a school-teacher who, after dallying with an evil temptation all through one summer, shakes himself free of it, and resolves “to make a man of himself, to go where human life is thick and the push keen and strong, to earn a place there by using the talent given him, and to work with hope, courage and belief, with a heart open to his humankind.”--Bliss Perry, The Broughton House (1890).