LIMBORCH, PHILIP A, was born at Amster dam 19th June 1633, and died there 3oth April 1717. He was a distinguished professor of theo logy among the Remonstrants, and in his Theologia Christiana is presented thc clearest and ablest ex position of the theological views of that body extant. He published also Commentorins in Acta Apostolorum, et in Epistolas Romanos Ile braes, fol., Roterod. 1711. This commentary, though written in the interest of the author's theo logical views, is deservin, of attention for the good sense, clear thought, and'acute reasoning by which it is pervaded.—W. L. A.
LIME (11tV; !coact; calx) was one of the few compacting substances made use of by the Jews. It is first mentioned in Deut. xxvii. 2, 3, where Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people to set up great stones, and to holster them with holster ;' a direction which has been variously interpreted. Some suppose that it simply implied that the plaister should be used as cement, joining the sides of the stones firmly together. The com mon opinion, however, and that which the text itself most obviously suggests, is that the surfaces of the stones were to be covered with plaister, and the law written or inscribed thereon. This is the
opinion which the Jews themselves entertain. It is more than likely that the process was similar to that which the Jews had often seen used in Eg,ypt for receiving bas-reliefs (Kitto's Pict. Bib. ; Dent. xxvii. 2).
In Is. xxxiii. 12, the sudden and utter destruc tion of the people' (C`Ip31), or different races com posing the Assyrian army, is compared to the burnings of lime,' a proof that the Jews were familiar with the use of the lime-kiln. The only other mention of lime in Scripture is in Amos ii. where Moab is charged with the wanton violation of the tomb of onc of the kings of Edom, inasmuch as he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime,' to plaister his palace with, according to the interpretation suggested by the Targum and some of the Rabbins. A similar act of indignity is men tioned in z Kings xxiii. 16.—W. J. C.