. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . of Lysias (b. c. 163)against the Jews given in 2 Mc. xi., four letters areintroduced, of which the last purports to be from Quintus Memmius, and Titus Manlius, ambassadorsof the Romans (ver. 34-38), confirming the con-cessions made by Lysias. There can be but littledoubt that the letter is a fabrication. (Apocrypha. )No such names occur among the many legates toSyria noticed by Polybius; and there is no room forthe mission of another embassy between two re-corded shortly before and after the death of Anti-ochus Epiphanes. If, as seems likely, the tru
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . of Lysias (b. c. 163)against the Jews given in 2 Mc. xi., four letters areintroduced, of which the last purports to be from Quintus Memmius, and Titus Manlius, ambassadorsof the Romans (ver. 34-38), confirming the con-cessions made by Lysias. There can be but littledoubt that the letter is a fabrication. (Apocrypha. )No such names occur among the many legates toSyria noticed by Polybius; and there is no room forthe mission of another embassy between two re-corded shortly before and after the death of Anti-ochus Epiphanes. If, as seems likely, the true read-ing is Titus Manius (not Manlius), the writer wasprobably thinking of the former embassy when CaiusSulpicius and Manius Sergius were sent to Syria. Man na (Heb. man). The most important pas-sages on this topic are—Ex. xvi. 14-36; Num. ; Deut. viii. 3, 16; Josh. v. 12; Ps. lxxviii. 24,25; Wis. xvi. 20, 21. From these passages welearn that the manna came every morning except theSabbath, in the form of a small round seed resem-. French Tamarisk (Tamarix Gallica). bling the hoar frost; that it must be gathered early,before the sun became so hot as to melt it; that itmust be gathered every day except the Sabbath;that the attempt to lay aside for a succeeding day,except on the day immediately preceding the Sab-bath, failed by the substance becoming wormy andoffensive; that it was prepared for food by grindingand baking; that its taste was like fresh oil, andlike wafers made with honey, equally agreeable to all palates; that the whole nation subsisted upon itfor forty years; that it suddenly ceased when theyfirst got the new corn of the land of Canaan; andthat it was always regarded as a miraculous giftdirectly from God, and not as a product of natural products of the Arabian deserts andother Oriental regions, which bear the name ofmanna, have not the qualities or uses ascribed tothe manna of Scripture. They are all condiments ormedicines rather than food, pr
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