The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . inguished by itspeculiar costume. Various insignia were worn by them, according to their rank or the ceremony in which they were engag
The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . inguished by itspeculiar costume. Various insignia were worn by them, according to their rank or the ceremony in which they were engaged ; andnecklaces, bracelets, garlands, and other ornaments,were put on during the religious ceremonies in thetemples. (Wilkinson— Ancient Egyptians, , p. 257, he, passim.) God greatly disconcerted this class of persons, aswe know, both in the time of Joseph, and especially inthat of Moses (Gen. ,15,16; Exod. viii. 18, 19).But doubtless there were many other occasions,such as the change of dynasties, &c., when theywere actually disgraced in the way recorded in thetext. It is easily conceivable how great would be thedegradation, to so distinguished a class of men, ofbeing divested of tlieir sacred habiliments, and, ascaptives, gracing the triumphal procession of somehaughty conqueror. 21. Looseneth the belt of the impetuous. By the impetuous I am inclined* tounderstand warriors rushing to the fight, probably in chariots. Castell gives as. PBIEST WEAliING IflS SACKll-DOTAL EGBES. 446 ILLUSTRATIONS, JOB XII. 21. one of the meanings of the Arabic word, swift, outstripping in running, as appliedto a horse.
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