NORWICH, urban district, Westhoughton parliamentary di vision, Lancashire, England, 18 m. N.W. of Manchester by L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931) 15,680. Rivington reservoir of Liverpool corporation is near. It has important locomotive works for the L.M.S. railway as well as large stone quarries. Other industries are cotton spinning, bleaching and finishing and the manufacture of fire-bricks and tiles.
A word cried in salutation of Christ when He en tered Jerusalem (Mk. xi. 9 sq.; Mt. xxi. 9, 15; John xii. 13) . We find in Ps. cxviii. 25 Hoshi'ah na, "Save, Oh!" and in Ps. lxxxvi. 2 the shortened form Hasha`. In Zech. ix. 9 the Messiah is said to be nosha` "saved" or "victorious," and thus to enter Jerusalem on an ass. Perhaps the multitudes, and certainly the primitive Christians (Matt. xxi. 5, 9), connected the cry of Hosanna with this. In John xii. 13 it may have to do with the palm branches in the hands of the multitude who went out to meet Him. For the term Hosanna is used (Bab. Talmud Sukka 3o b) of the festive posy (lulab, a palm-shoot, myrtle and willow) carried with a citron (ethrog) on the Feast of Tabernacles, and possibly at the original Feast of the Dedication (2 Macc. x. 7). The origin of this custom is unknown, and perhaps goes back to a primitive celebration in nature-worship.
See further F. C. Burkitt, J. Th. St., xvii. (1916), pp. 139-152.
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