SIT, SITTING (sit, sit'ting), (Heb. yaw shab' ; Gr. kath-ed'zom-ahee), the favor ite position of the Orientals, who sit upon the floor with their feet crossed under them.
"In Palestine people sit at all kinds of work ; the carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze sitting upon the ground or upon the plank lie is planing. The washerwoman sits by the tub, and, in a word, no one stands where it is possible to sit" (Thomson, Land and Book, 1, 191).
Figurative. (1) To sit with one, denotes inti mate fellowship with him (Ps. xxvi :5). (2) To sit in dust or darkness, imports great poverty, con tempt, ignorance, and trouble (Is. xlvii :1 ; Luke i :79 ; Mic. vii:8). (3) To sit on thrones, im ports confirmed glory, and authority (Matt. xix: 21). (4) Sitting, ascribed to God, or Christ as Mediator, imports their undisturbed rest and au thority (Ps. xlvii :8 and xxix:to), or their judg
ing and punishingg of men (Dan. vii :9, 26; Joel iii: r2; Matt. xxvi:64)• (5) Christ's sitting at God's right hand, denotes his fixed and peaceful posses sion of the most intimate fellowship with God, and his continued power of governing the church and her concerns (Ps. cx :1 ; Eph. i :2o). (6) The saints sit together in heavenly Maces; in Christ their head, they are already possessors of the celestial glories, and shall quickly enjoy them in their own person (Eph. ii :6). (7) Anti christ's sitting in the temple of God, imports his residence in the church, and his pretense to rule the conscience of her members (2 Thess. ii:4)• $1TH (sith), (Heb.",eem, Ezek. xxxv :6), since, corruption of Old English. Latimer has "sithens" and Shakespeare has "sithence."