. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . ough for a stout club,and it might well be laid on his shoulder. True; and I have seen keys more than twice as material house of David was the stronghold of Zion,and such castles now have enormous wooden locks, withkeys in proportion. I once spent a summer in an old castlewhose great outer door had a lock and key which was al-most a load to carry. This kind of lock is no doubt veryancient. Their construction is such that a false key canscarcely by any poss
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . ough for a stout club,and it might well be laid on his shoulder. True; and I have seen keys more than twice as material house of David was the stronghold of Zion,and such castles now have enormous wooden locks, withkeys in proportion. I once spent a summer in an old castlewhose great outer door had a lock and key which was al-most a load to carry. This kind of lock is no doubt veryancient. Their construction is such that a false key canscarcely by any possible chance fit them, and the diflicultyis increased in proportion to the number and eccentric po-sition of the ivards into which the movable metal drojxs arerequired to fall. The following cut will exhibit its naturemore clearly than any amount of description can do. These locks are ])laeed on the inside of the doors of gar-dens and outer courts, and even on those of inner rooms insome places. To enable the owner to inilock them, a holeis cut in tlie door, thronuh which he thrusts his arm and in- 494 THE LAND AND THE J^ f=^^^ ^ -f^ LOCK AN1> KEY. serts the key. All the garden doors about Sidon are thusarranged, and such must have been the custom at Jerusa-lem in the days of Solomon. In Song v. 4 he makes thebride say, My beloved put in his hand by the hole of thedoor, and my bowels were moved for him; that is, she sawhim thrust in his hand to unlock the door, that he mightenter; and naturally enough, the bowels — that Orientalsymbol of the affections—were moved. Solomon wellknew the perturbations and delightful agitations of love;and a much more trivial thing than the hand of the be-loved, and a much less significant action than the one herementioned, will start the heart leaping and fluttering in ir-repressible ecstasy. But it is time to return, lest Acres in-exorable gate be locked against us, and there is neither holein it through which we can thrust our hand,
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