There are many references to “lily” in the Bible, including Lilium candidum, Anemone coronaria, Hyacinthus orientalis, Iris pseudacorus, Lilium chalcedonicum, and Nymphaea alba. When exploring the wilds of nature, you may stumble upon Lilium candidum – known best as `the lily of the dark w...
He was also the angel of Jehovah who appeared in fire to Gideon (Lightfoot on Joh 1:21; Eisenmenger, 1:686). Arab tradition places his birthplace at Gilhad (Jalud), a few miles north of es-Salt (Irby, page 98), and his tomb near Damascus (Mislin, 1:490). The common assumption ...
The evidence of Josephus is very important; for, besides general references to the sacred books, he gives a formal account of the Canon as it was acknowledged in his day, ascribing five books, containing laws and an account of the origin of man, to Moses, thirteen to the Prophets, and ...
This could be considered a trial of supreme magnitude. Yet scripture commands we consider joy in the midst of it. The word joy evokes smiles and laughter, peace and satisfaction. It brings to mind Jesus resting in the boat in the midst of a raging storm, tossed about on high waves while...
Even although we had not the references in Herodotus, and the tradition ascribing to, Osiris the invention of wine, the frequency with which the plant or its fruit is figured on Egyptian monuments shows how important it must once have been. SEE VINEYARD. The vine, however, was not a ...
1:4). Though we may not be able to rely upon either his dates or his facts, yet we may infer from his words and references that the Medes were one of the great primeval races which established themselves in Central Asia. Herodotus gives a very graphic and circumstantial account of the ...
How far the ancient Hebrews were acquainted with the processes at present in use for extracting copper from the ore, it is impossible to assert, as there are no references in Scripture to anything of the kind, except in the passage of Job already quoted. Copper smelting, however, is in ...
All the distinct references to the Lord's Supper which occur within the limits of the N.T. have, it is believed, been noticed. To find, as a recent writer has done (Christian Remembrancer, April 1860), quotations from the Liturgy of the Eastern Church in the Pauline Epistles involves (...
7. "Such quotations of places to be marginally set down as shall serve for the fit references of one Scripture to another." 8. "Every particular man of each company to take the same chapter or chapters; and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he think good, al...
In this way, the parallelism/continuity between the visible references to the Old Testament (Abraham’s meeting with Melchizedek, Moses) and the New Testament (Epiphany) makes plausible the hypothesis of imagining that the invisible content of a closed cupboard contains books and perhaps a papyrus ...