Egypt, but because it was necessary in order to preserve it from corruption, till it could be carried to the place of sepulture. The same reason existed for dealing in a similar manner with the body of Joseph. He was accordingly embalmed and put in a coffin, but not buried. Where the body was kept in the interval prior to the exodus from Egypt we are not informed; but being dead, he yet spake to the Israelites. His venerable mummy, waiting for the time of its removal, cried aloud to his kinsmen, 'Here is not your rest; you are in a strange land; but God will surely visit you and bring you into the land which he sware to your fathers to give you.' Joseph's dying When hopes were not disappointed. Moses left Egypt in haste, neither the hurry of the departure, nor the immense load of business and care which then lay upon his mind made him forget the bones of Joseph. He would have thought himself guilty of the basest ingratitude, and even of perjury, if the oath made to the dying patriarch had not been observed. Not one, it may be presumed, of those persons to whom the oath had been administered, was then in the land of the living. But the oath which they had sworn survived their own dissolution, and lived in its binding power upon the consciences of their descendants. Abrek, or bow the knee, meaning of the term considered, Accepting the face, what meant by it, According to the mouth of, what meant by the phrase, II. 287 I. 313 II. 356, 311 Adam, import of the name, I. 109 how he is said to have begotten a son in his own likeness, I. 109 Adultery, how punished, II. 243 Almighty, or All-sufficient, Shaddai, a title of the Most High, I. 268 I. 147 Animal food, not an ordinary diet among the Orientals, I. 286 I. 64 Archers wounding Joseph, how phrase to be explained, II. 412 Barter, how carried on in ancient times, Bearing upon the knees, what to be understood by, Before the Lord, the sense of the phrase, Begin, sometimes means to continue an action, Believing in God, the phrase explained as applied to Abraham, ing, Benjamin, import of the name, Bethel, why called Beth-aven, in what sense called God's house, Bethlehem, account of the modern, Vol. Page. I. 132 I. 172, 218 I. 160 II. 252 I. 242 II. 85 II. 206 II, 112 II. 113 II. 207 II. 269 II. 67, 68 Bishop, peculiar sense of the original term, II. 281 Bless, what the term imports, I. 39 Blessing, used in the sense of gift, or an act of liberality, II. 182 Blindness, applied to signify the effects of vertigo of the brain, I. 306 Bottles, eastern, described, I. 353 Bowing down, common token of respect in the East, Bricks, what kind employed in the building of Babylon, I. 181 II. 19 Building one's house, equivalent to raising up children, I. 257 I. 147 1 Burying-place, what implied by the purchase of one, nature of the most ancient, Butter, the use of it as an article of diet in the East, C. Cain and Abel, account of their respective offerings, Cakes, how speedily baked in the East, Calling upon the name of the Lord, what meant by it, Cannot, used not unfrequently to express moral inability, II. 22, 27 1. 287 II. 302 I. 96, 97 I. 285 II. 165 IT. 117 I. 351 Child, used in the sense of lad, stripling, Commanding one's household, what implied by it, Comparative, for absolute expressions, not unfrequent in the Concubine, what kind of connexion implied by the term, Counting for righteousness, phrase explained, Covenant, scriptural sense of the term, Covenant of salt, what Covering of the eyes, how Abraham was a to Sarah, Creation, the true import of the term Cursing, how to be understood when spoken of God, in what sense the serpent was cursed, in what sense the ground, Cutting off a soul, what implied in that punishment, D. Day, in what sense the term used in the Mosaic narrative, in what sense said to be great, Dead man, used for one in imminent danger of death, Vol. Page. I. 354 II. 55 I. 272 II. 222 I. 88 II. 426 I. 295-296 II. 317 II. 336 I. 257 II. 17 I. 124 I. 123 I. 243 I. 128 I. 328 I. 344 I. 27 I 81 I. 82 I. 86 I. 277 I. 254 Dead woman, in what sense Rachel affirmed that she should be I. 31 II. 116 I. 337 one, Deborah, how honored as a nurse, Dews, their copiousness in the East, Die, how Adam was to in the day of his disobedience, II. 128 II. 203 II. 92, 154 I. 63 II. 421 Dividing one's self, in military movements, what meant by it, Drinking, at feasts, how the phrase to be understood, Eating the forbidden fruit, design of the prohibition considered, 1. 62 I. 175 Edar, tower of, passage respecting explained, II. 208 Enmity, how put between the seed of the serpent and the seed of Everlasting covenant, everlasting possession, how the phrase to Falling out by the way, what meant by the expression, II. 343 I. 269 Fatness of the earth, how used as a symbol of spiritual blessings, II. 92 Fifth part of the land, what meant by Joseph's taking it, II. 282 Fulfilling one's week, what meant by the expression, II. 125 Full of days, what the import of the phrase as applied to Abra- II. 56 G. Gates, how said to be possessed, usual place of ratifying contracts, Gates of hell, how said not to prevail against the church, Gathered to one's fathers, what meant by being, Generations, original term how used, Getting a man from the Lord, how Eve's words respecting to be Getting or making souls, what meant by the expression, Giants, the antediluvian, term explained, II. 15 II. 25 II. 195 II. 57 I. 51 I. 95 I. 198 I. 118 |