Blindness
Blindness. The Frequent Occurrence Of Blindness Hi The East Has Always Excited The Aston Ishment Of Travellers. Volney Says That, Out Of A Hundred Persons In Cairo, He Has Met Twenty Quite Blind, Ten Wanting One Eye, And Twenty Others Having Their Eyes Red, Purulent, Or Blemished (travels In Egypt, ...
Blood
Blood. There Are Two Respects In Which The Ordinances Of The Old And New Testaments Con Cerning Blood Deserve Notice Here—the Prohibition Of Its Use As An Article Of Food, And The Appoint Ment And Significance Of Its Use In The Ritual Of Sacrifice ; Both Of Which Appear To ...
Blood And Water
Blood And Water (john Xix. 34) Are Said To Have Issued From Our Lord's Side When The Soldier Pierced Him On The Cross. The Only Natural Explanation That Can Be Offered Of The Fact Is To Suppose That Some Effusion Had Taken Place In The Cavity Of The Chest, And ...
Bloody Sweat
Bloody Sweat. According To Luke Xxii. 44, Our Lord's Sweat Was ' As Great Drops Of Blood Falling To The Ground.' Michaelis Takes The Passage To Mean Nothing More Than That The Drops Were As /iv:cc As Falling Drops Of Blood (a Umerk. Fur Unge Lehde, Ad Loc.) This, Which ...
Boanerges
Boanerges (boavepyes, Explained By Viol Bpovls, Sons Of Thunder, Mark Iii. 17), A Surname Given By Christ To James And John, Probably On Account Of Their Fervid, Impetuous Spirit (comp. Luke Ix. 54, And See Olshausen Thereon). The Word Boanelys Has Greatly Perplexed Philologists And Commentators. It Seems Agreed That ...
Book Of Daniel
Daniel, Book Of. This Important And In I Many Respects Remarkable Book, Takes Its Name Not , Mly From The Principal Person In It, But Also And :hiefly From Him As Its Real Author ; There Being No Doubt Whatever That, As The Hook Itself Testifies, It Was Composed By ...
Book Of Enoch
Enoch, Book Of. The Interest That Once Attached To The Apocryphal Book Of Enoch Has Now Partly Subsided. Yet A Document Quoted, As Is Generally Believed, By An Inspired Man, Can Never Be Wholly Devoid Of Importance Or Utility In Sacred Literature. We Shall Allude To The Following Parti Culars ...
Book Of Ezra
Ezra, Book Of The Present Hook Of Ezra, Consists Of Two Parts, Viz., I. -vi. And Vii. -x ; The First Containing A History Of The Company Of Exiles Who Returned Under Zerubbabel And Joshua, From The First Year Of Cyrus Till The Completion Of The Temple In The Sixth ...
Book Of I Esther
Esther, Book Of. I. Contents, Name, And Place In The Canon.—in This Book We Have An Ac Count Of Certain Events In The History Of The Jews Under The Rule Of The Persian King Ahasuerus (achashverosh), Doubtless The Xerxes Of The Greek Historians. [ahasuerus 31 The Writer Informs Us Of ...
Book Of Joel
Joel, Book Of. This Prophet Opens His Com Mission By Announcing An Extraordinary Plague Of Locusts, Accompanied With Extreme Drought, Which He Depicts In A Strain Of Animated And Sublime Poetry Under The Image Of An Invading Army. The Fidelity Of His Highly-wrought Description Is Corro Borated And Illustrated By ...
Book Of Joshua
Joshua, Book Of. The First In Order Of The 1::13$71 Irt:41) In The Hebrew Canon. ". Con Tents. —this Book Contains An Account Of The Fortunes Of The Israelites From The Death Of Moses To That Of Joshua, The Son Of Nun. Beoinning With The Appointment Of Joshua To Succeesmoses ...
Book Of Jubilees
Jubilees, Book Of. Tbis Apocryphal Or Hagadic Book, Which Was Used So Largely In The Ancient Church, And Was Still Known To The Byzan Tines, But Of Which Both The Original Hebrew And The Greek Were Afterwards Lost, Has Recently Been Discovered In An Ethiopic Version In Abyssinia. 1. Title ...
Book Of Judges
Judges, Book Of, The Third In The List Of The Historical Compositions Of The O. T. It Consists Of Two Divisions, The First Comprising Chaps. I. -xvii. ; The Second, Being An Appendix, Chaps. Xvii.-xxi. I. Plan Of The Book. —that The Author, In Composing This Work, Had A Certain ...
Book Of Lamentations
Lamentatio.ns, Book Of, In The Hebrew Cation • 0 How . (a Plaintive Exclam Ation)t ; In The Talmud And Later Authorities R-m+p,1: Elegies, Dirges ; Lxx. Epljpot 'lepektiou ; Vulg. Threni, Id Est Lamentationes Yerentiee Prophetce ; Jerome, Lamentationes Quee Cynoth Hebraice Insert Buntur ; Syr. 1.-4-=..3 C31li-l01, Etc.: ...
Book Of Life
Book Of Life. In Phil. Iv. 3 Paul Speaks Of Clement And Other Of His Fellow-labourers, Whose Names Are Written In The Book Of Life.' On This Heinrichs (annotat. In Ep. Ad Philipp.) Ob Serves That As The Future Life Is Represented Under The Image Of A Roxtreima (citizenship, Community, ...
Book Of Nehemiah
Nehemiah, Book Of. This, Which Bears The Title Morn Nehemiah's Fords, Was An Ciently Connected With Ezra, As If It Formed Part Of The Same Work (eichhorn, Einleitung, Ii. 627). This Connection Is Still Indicated By Its First Word, And It Came To Pass.' It Arose, Doubtless, From The Fact ...
Book Of Psalms
Psalms, Book Of. This Collection Of Sacred. Poetry Received Its Name, •ka)44,31, In Consequence Of The Lyrical Character Of The Pieces Of Which It Consists, As Intended To Be Sung To Stringed And Other Instruments Of Music. The Word (from Ijnivico, To Touch Or Strike A Chord) Is Thus Aptly ...
Book Of Revelation
Revelation, Book Of, I, Authorship. — The Prevailing Opinion Has Always Been That John The Apostle, The Son Of Zebedee, Wrote The Book Before Us. In Favour Of This View Both External And Internal Evidence Unite To Speak. In Relation To The Former, Some Begin The Series Of Witnesses With ...
Book Of Ruth
Ruth, Book Of, Is Inserted In The Canon, According To The English Arrangement, Between The Book Of Judges And The Books Of Samuel, As A Sequel To The Former And An Introduction To The Latter. Among The Ancient Jews It Was Added To The Book Of Judges, Because The Transactions ...
Book Of Tobit
Tobit, Book Of, One Of The Deutero-canonical Books, Detailing The Wonderful Dealings Of God With A Pious Man Of This Name. 1. Title Of The Book.—the Book Is Called—i. Tospir, From The Words With Which It Begins, And Which Are An Abbreviation Of The Super Scription (tobit T, 2). Ii. ...
Books Of Kings
Kings, Books Of. The Two Books Of Kings Formed Anciently But One Book In The Jewish Scriptures. The Present Division, Following The Septuagint And Latin Versions, Has Been Common In Hebrew Bibles Since The Venetian Editions Of Bom Berg. That The Book Was Originally An Unbroken Treatise Is Affirmed By ...
Books Of Samuel
Samuel, Books Of. The Two Books Of Samuel Were Anciently Reckoned As But One Among The Jews 6;,..;17x.:fr -to. That They Form Only One Treatise Is Apparent From Their Structure. The Present Division Into Two Books, Common In Our Hebrew Bibles Since The Editions Of Bomberg, Was Derived From Tbe ...
Borith
Borith (7p13) Occurs In Two Passages Of Scripture, Jer. Ii. 22, And Malachi Iii. 2. From Neither Of These Passages Does It Distinctly Appear Whether The Substance Referred To By The Name Of Borith (a. V. Sape'), Was Obtained From The Mineral Or From The Vegetable Kingdom. But It Is ...
Botany Biblical
Botany (biblical). The Study Of Biblical Botany Is Not An Extensive One, And Mainly Consists In The Identification Of Trees And Plants Mentioned In Scripture. The Whole Number Of Vegetable Pro Ductions Specifically Alluded To In The Bible Does Not Exceed 2so. With Botany As A Science The Jews Were ...
Botnim
Botnim (ntn) Occurs Only In Gen. Xliii. T 1, Where Jacob, Wishing To Conciliate The Ruler Of Egypt, Desires His Sons On Their Return To Take Of The Best Fruits In The Land In Their Vessels, And Carry Down The Man A Present,' And Along With Other Articles Mentions Nuts ...
Bottle
Bottle. Natural Objects, It Is Obvious, Would Be The Earliest Things Employed For Holding And Preserving Liquids ; And Of Natural Objects Those Would Be Preferred Which Either Presented Themselves Nearly Or Quite Ready For Use, Or Such As Could Speedily Be Wrought Into The Requisite Shape. The Skins Of ...
Bozrah
Bozrah ' An Or 'fortifica Tion ;' Sept. B6cr4 And Boo-op). There Are Two Cities Of This Name Mentioned In The Bible. I. A Chief Town Of Edom, And One Of Its Prin Cipal Strongholds (gen. Xxxvi. 33 ; Is. Lxiii. 1). Though Referred To In Various Parts Of Scripture, ...
Bracelet
Bracelet. This Name, In Strict Propriety, Is As Applicable To Circlets Worn On The Upper Part Of The Arm As To Those Worn On The Wrist ; But As It Has Been Found Convenient To Distinguish The Former As Armlets, The Term Bracelet Must Be Restricted To The Latter. These ...
Bread
Bread. The Sword 'bread' Was Of Far More Extensive Meaning Among The Hebrews Than With Us. There Are Passages In Which It Appears To Be Applied To All Kinds Of Victuals (luke Xi. 3); But It More Generally Denotes All Kinds Of Baked Farinaceous Articles Of Food. It Is Also ...
Brian Walton
Walton, Brian, D.d., Was Born In 1600 At Seamer, In The District Of Cleaveland In Yorkshire ; In I 616 He Was Admitted A Sizar Of Magdalen Col Lege, Cambridge, Whence He Removed To Peterhouse In 1618, And Took His Degree Of M.a. In 1623. He Left College For A ...
Brick
Brick. [the Bricks Mentioned In The Bible Are Of Two Sorts. ,. Brick Formed Of A Whitish Chalky Clay, Compacted With Straw And Dried In The Sun (mz$, From To Be White. Sept. Arxivoos.] It Is This Sort Which Is Chiefly Men Tioned In The Scriptures; And The Making Of ...
Bridge
Bridge. It Is Somewhat Remarkable That The Word Bridge Does Not Occur In All Scripture, Although There Were Without Doubt Bridges Over The Rivers Of Palestine, Especially In The Country Beyond The Jordan, In Which The Principal Perennial Streams Are Found. There Is Mention Of A Military Bridge (2 Maccab. ...