JOURNEY (jur'ny.), (Heb. deh'rek, a re moval from one place to another).
A day's journey is reckoned about sixteen or twenty miles. To this distance, around the He brew camp, were the quails gathered for food for the people (Num. xi :31). Shaw computes the eleven days' journey from Sinai to Kadesh-barnea to be about one hundred and ten miles (Dent. i 2). A Sabbath, day's journey is reckoned by the Hebrews at moo cubits, or nearly seven hundred and thirty paces; and it is said, that if any Jew traveled above this from the city on the Sabbath, he was beaten; but it is probable they were al lowed to travel as far to the synagogue as was necessary (Acts I:12 ; 2 Kings iv:23). The He brews seem to have had fifty-two journeys or marches from Rameses to Gilgal (Num. xxxiii).
JOY (joi), (generally some form of Heb.
gheel, to spin round, or leap with pleasure); a stronger term than 710.7,F, siin-khaw' (Ps. xxx:5, etc.); Illaw-soce' (tit'.?, Job viii:19, etc.), rejoic ing; khar-ah' (Gr. xapti., Matt. ii:to), gladness; the cause or occasion of joy (Luke ii.to; Thess. ii:2o). Joy or gladness in general, is an agreeable mental sensation arising from conscious possession of,or from hope of enjoying,something pleasant or valuable; and the expression thereof in praise, etc.
1. Natural Joy, Etc. We may discriminate between natural joy, gladness and mirth as fol lows: What creates joy and gkdness is of a per manent nature; that which creates mirth is tem porary; joy is the most vivid sensation in the soul; gladness is the same in quality, but inferior in degree ; joy is awakened in the mind by the most important events in life ; gladness springs up in the mind on ordinary occasions; the return of the prodigal son awakened joy in the heart of his father ; a man feels gladness at being relieved from some distress or trouble; public events of a gratifying nature produce universal joy; relief from either sickness or want brings gladness to an oppressed heart ; he who is absorbed in his private distresses is ill prepared to partake of the mirth with which he is surrounded at the festive board. Joy is depicted on the countenance. or expresses itself by various demonstrations; glad ness is a more tranquil feeling, which is enjoyed in secret, and seeks no outward expression. (Crabbe's Synonyms.) 2. Spiritual Joy. Spiritual joy is excitea by the Holy Ghost, and arises from union to, pos session of, and hope to enjoy forever, a God rec onciled in Christ. This joy produces an 'agree
able earnestness in promoting his honor (Gal. v 22). Thus the saints rejoice in Christ, or in God ; they take pleasure in and boast of their connection with him ; they praise him for his kindness to them, and for what he is in himself (Luke 1:-17)• Their rejoicing in hope, is their delightful views, holy boasting and cheerful praise, on account of their infallible perseverance and eternal happiness (Hcb. iii:6). A saint's rejoicing in himself, means his inward satisfaction in the testimony of a good conscience (Gal. vi:4)• Objects and Sources of Spiritual Joy.
The ground or object of one's rejoicing, is called his joy; thus God is the joy, the exceeding joy, of his people; he, as theirs, and as enjoyed by them, is the cause and ground of their eternal and superlative joy (Ps. xliii:4). Christ's ex altation, promised to him, to encoarage him in his work, is the joy set before hint (Heb. xii :2). Thc heavenly blessedness is called the joy of the Lord. It consists in the delightful enjoyment of God in Christ, and it much resembles that pleasure he has in our redemption (Matt. XXV :21, 23). Con verts are the "joy" of ministers, who are instru mental in bringing them to Christ (t Thcss. ii:2o). Jerusalem and Zion were the "joy of the whole earth:" as God was there present, and peculiarly worshiped, there was more ground of toy than elsewhere; or the words may signify, that they were the joy of the whole land; as all the Jews took pleasure therein, and boasted thereof (Ps. xlviii:2; Lam. ii:15). The church is created .a. "rejoicing," and her people a "joy," when she is so reformed, settled, purged. and blessed, as to abound with spiritual gladness, and to rejoice the heart of every pious beholder (Is. lxv :18). Fall ing into temptations, or troubles, is to be ac counted "all joy;" as troubles work exceedingly for our real good (James i:2). The "joy of God's salvation," is the heart-exhilarating bless ings therein contained, and the spiritual gladness that issues therefrom (Ps. li:t2). Spiritual glad ness is called "joy in the Holy Ghost." as it pro ceeds from his dwelling and working in our heart (Rom. xiv :17). Brown.