Identifier: illustrationsofh00bush (find matches)
Title: Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Bush, George, 1796-1859
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Brattleboro', Vt. : Brattleboro' typographic company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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the world,the latness of this tree signally displayed the divine gooil-ness and benignity; and since the fall of man, it symbolizesthe grace and kindness of our heavenly Father, and theprecious influences of the Holy Ghost, in healing the spir-ilual diseases of our degenerate race, and in counteractingthe deadly poison of moral corruption. Hence, the peopleof Israel were commanded lo conslrud their booths, at thefeast of tabernacles, partly wilh branches of olive; and allthe nations of the civilized world were secretly directed, bythe overruling providence of Heaven, to bear them in theirhands as emblems of peace and amity. The olive is men-tioned as the sign of peace, by both Livy and Virgil, inseveral parts of their works, but one instance from thelatter shall suffice. ■Tuin pntrr .T:ne.is pnppi sic fttur ab nl(aTaciferxrpic iiianu rainuin pretendit olivee. jEn. h. viii. 1. 116. The celebrated navigator. Captain Cook, found thatgreen branches, carried in the hands, or stuck in the
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(CuprutUM SimptrvirenM) Gen. 6: II. OLIVE. iOUaEurnpta) Geo 8: II. Oore. The nearest approximation 1o truth will be. perhaps, to consider the oritjinal word Yonah as a counterpart toColumba, the generic term for all the variuii-s kindb of dove. The fondness whicli ihesc birds exhibit fnr hnnie is wellknown, and for this reason, probably, the patriarch made choice of the dove for the purjiose nlUided lo in the sacrednarrative. Gopher IVnorl. The ejiiress possessed unrivalled ihirability and compactness, renderine it peculiarly adapted to sacredpurposes. The .\thenians used it for cofTins, and the Eifjptiaus for mummy cases. Tne straight, elegant tree of thecut seems best entitled to have furnished the wood for the ark. A very lone lived tree. See, also, quite 0 full description of it, and a view of those verjancient olives of Othse-mane. iu Or, Jeiikss Comprrhr^sirr Comincnhjnj, vol. ii. Tins is one of those trees, as the terebinth, &c. to whose roots. Olire. at least, naturalists

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