. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . h is highly aro-matic. It is used by the orientals as a perfume, and was employedby the Egyptians for embalming. It must not be confounded withthe herb which produces the aloes used in medicine.—RobinsonsGreek and English Lexicon for the New Testament, p. 36, dxo». t At Herods funeral, Josephus informs us, the procession was fol-lowed by five hundred of his domestics carrying s
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . h is highly aro-matic. It is used by the orientals as a perfume, and was employedby the Egyptians for embalming. It must not be confounded withthe herb which produces the aloes used in medicine.—RobinsonsGreek and English Lexicon for the New Testament, p. 36, dxo». t At Herods funeral, Josephus informs us, the procession was fol-lowed by five hundred of his domestics carrying spices. SPIKENARD. SAFFRON. CINNAMON. 209 save, when you are dead, he will be your Lord tocondemn. SPIKENARD. Cant. i. 12; iv. 13, 14. This is a species of valerian,a native of India, and found in great abundance onthe Himalaya mountains. It was known to the Jewsthrough the Persians and Ara-bians. Its name in Sanscrit isjatamansi. The ointment ofspikenard/ mentioned in Markxiv. 3; John xii. 3, is the essen-tial oil of this plant. The classi-cal writers bear witness to itscostliness; Horace,for instance,represents asmuch of it as couldbe contained in a small box ofprecious stone, as equivalent toa cask of SAFFRON Occurs only in Cant. iv. 14. The crocus, or saffron,is a small plant with a bulbous root, and long, narrow,pointed leaves. The flowers are funnel-shaped, insix parts, of a blue or violet colour, with differentshades; some varieties are yellow. The pistil isdivided at the top into three threads of a bright yellowcolour; when dried and pressed into cakes, they formthe substance formerly much used in medicine. CINNAMON. An-agreeable aromatic; the inward bark of the canel-la, a species of laurel. It is mentioned, Exod. , among the materials in the composition of the holyanointing oil; and in Prov. vii. 17; Cant. iv. 14; andRev. xviii. 13, among the richest perfumes. The cinna-mon of commerce is the inner bark of a tree of the same19* 210 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HIS
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