20 Gachals=1 cab (2 Kings vi. 25; Rev. vi. 6), 1.8 Cabs =1 omer (Exod. xvi. 36), 3.3 Omers =1 seah (Matt. xiii. 33), . 3 Seahs 1 ephah (Ezek. xlv. 11), 5 Ephahs=1 letech (Hos. iii. 2), pks. gals. pts. 0 0 0.1416 0 0 2 Letechs = 1 kor or homer (Num. xi. 32; Hos. iii. 2), 32 N.B.-The above Table will explain many texts in the Bible, especially those which are placed within brackets. They also make the following, from Isa. v. 10, much more clear : "Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah." The curse upon the covetous man was, that 10 acres of vines should produce only 7 gallons of wine-i.e., 1 acre should yield less than 3 quarts, and that 32 pecks of seed should only bring a crop of 3 pecks, or in other words, nine-tenths of the seed sown should die in the ground, and so produce nothing, only one-tenth sprouting up into plants. N.B.-A Shekel would probably purchase nearly ten times as much as the same nominal amount will now buy. NOTES. From these tables we learn the following lessons:Naaman offered Elisha 6000 pieces (shekels) of gold, i.e., more than £10,000. The debtor had been forgiven 10,000 talents, i.e. £3,000,000. He refused to forgive his fellow-servant 100 pence, i.e. £3, 2s. 6d. TIME. The natural DAY was from sunrise to sunset. But the civil day was from sunset one evening to sunset the next,-"for the evening and the morning were the first day." N.B.-Our Lord's words predicting his resurrection are the usual expressions for the civil, not the natural day. Thus, three "days and nights" is in the Greek all one word, which would be more correctly translated three "civil days," implying that the intervening nights were included, and that He did not mean that He should be in the grave by day and not by night. N.B.-The SACRED Year reckoned from the moon after the Vernal Equinox. The CIVIL Year began in September (the fruitless part of the year). The prophets used the Sacred Year; those engaged in secular pursuits the Civil. The year was divided into 12 lunar months, with every third year a thirteenth. William Collins, Sons, & Co.'s Educational Works. THE ACADEMIC PROGRESSIVE READERS. Edited by CANON RIDGWAY. Illustrated by DALZIEL BROTHERS, FIRST BOOK, 106 pp., Illustrated, Extra Fcap. 8vo, cloth, EXTRA READING BOOKS. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By F. A. LAING. 256 pp., gvo,cl., S. D. 0 7 09 1 0 1 3 1 6 20 20 2 6 OUTLINES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, By B. SIMPSON, London. 192 pp., Illustrated, Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 1 0 OUTLINES OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY FOR GIRLS. By J. HASSELL, 1 0 By Dr. A. 1 0 ELOCUTION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. By J. A. Mair. 1 6 1 0 HISTORY. 1 0 HISTORY OF ENGLAND, for Junior Classes. By L. SCHMITZ, Extra Fcap. 8vo, cloth, OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. By Rev. C. İVENS. 1 1 09606 600 1 10 |