The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . er. ix:i5) is symbolical ofaffliction, misery and servitude. It was for this reason that, in the celebration ofthe Passover, the servitude of the Israelites inEgypt was typically represented by bitter herbs. 1. On the day of bitterness in Amos viii:io,Comp. Tibullus, ii 14, 11— Nime et ainara dies, et noctis amarior umbra Habak. i :6 the Chaldeans are called thatbitter and swift n
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . er. ix:i5) is symbolical ofaffliction, misery and servitude. It was for this reason that, in the celebration ofthe Passover, the servitude of the Israelites inEgypt was typically represented by bitter herbs. 1. On the day of bitterness in Amos viii:io,Comp. Tibullus, ii 14, 11— Nime et ainara dies, et noctis amarior umbra Habak. i :6 the Chaldeans are called thatbitter and swift nation, which Schultens illus-trated by remarking that the root Merer in Arabic(answering to the Hebrew word for bitter) isusually applied to strength and courage. 2. The gall of bitterness (Acts viii 123) de-scribes a state of extreme wickedness, highlyoffensive to God, and hurtful to others. 3. A root of bitterness (Heb. xiins; xxix:i8) expresses a wicked or scandalousperson or any doctrine contrary to cruth, or anydangerous sin leading to apostasy. BITTER HERBS (bitter erbz), (Heb. D^™, mer-o-rim, literally bitters). There has been muchdifference of opinion respecting the kind of herbs. Gates of Nicaca, the Capital of Bithynia. BITHYNIA (bi-thyni-a), (Gr. Ktfvpla, bithynia),a province of Asia Minor, on the Euxine Sea andthe Propontis; bounded on the west by Mysia, onthe south and cast by Phrygia and Galatia, and east by Paphlagonia. The Bithynians were a rude and uncivilized peo-ple, Thracians who had colonized this part ofAsia, and occupied no towns, but lived in villages(KWfxoiroXth, Strabo, p. 5661. That Christian con-gregations were formed at an early period inBithynia, is evident from the Apostle Peter hav-ing addressed the first of his Epistles to them(i Pet. i:i). The Apostle Paul was at one timeinclined to go into Bithynia with his assistantsSilas and Timothy, but the Spirit suffered himnot (Acls xvi .7). denoted by this word. On this subject the
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