. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . my, have always been regarded as pe-culiar trophies of victory, and displayed inplaces of honor in churches and public build-ings. We read of them constantly in theO. T.—four Hebrew words being indiscrim-inately translated banner, standard, ensign,flag, or signal. 1. Degel, something conspic-uous—a banner of a large kind, serving forthree tribes together, one of which pertainedto each of the four general divisions. Th
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . my, have always been regarded as pe-culiar trophies of victory, and displayed inplaces of honor in churches and public build-ings. We read of them constantly in theO. T.—four Hebrew words being indiscrim-inately translated banner, standard, ensign,flag, or signal. 1. Degel, something conspic-uous—a banner of a large kind, serving forthree tribes together, one of which pertainedto each of the four general divisions. Thesestandards were worked with , a sign—a smaller flag, or ensign, whichbelonged to single tribes, and perhaps to theseparate classes of families; originally mere-ly a pole or spear, to the end of which abunch of leaves, or something similar, wasfastened. Most modern expositors inclineto the opinion that the ensigns were flagsdistinguished by their colors, or by the nameof the tribe to which each , something lofty. This standard was not, i Nnmb. i., 52; ii., 2, 3; Sol. Song ii., 4; vi., 4,10.—2 Numb, ii., 2, 34. BANQUET 100 BANQUET. Ancient Banners. like the others, home from place to place,hut appears to have heeii a long pole with aflag fastened to its top, erected on eminences,chiefly on the irruption of an enemy, to pointout to the people a place of rendezvous. Itsappearance was thus the signal for the war-cry, and the Mowing of the , from its elevation—a sign or signalgiven by fire. This is supposed by some tohave been a long pole, on the top of whichwas a grate not unlike a chafing-dish, madeof iron bars, denoting by its shape the partyto which it belonged. There appear to beseveral allusions in Scripture to the bannersof ancient nations. A proper knowledge ofthese banners might aid us in understand-ing more clearly the sacred instance, some believe that the he-goatwith one horn refers, through
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