A dictionary of the . | prurient curiosity, and were accepted byI the credulous. The circumstances re-lated carry their own refutation withthem, as being entirely out of harmonywith the spirit of our Lords life. Theytend to confirm the canonical Gospels asthe counterfeit presupposes the genuinecoin. A harmony of the Gospels is anarrangement of these four biographieswhich displays the chronology of theevents narrated, the variety of events,and the diversity of details. The objectis to present a full account of our Lordslife in the chronological sequence of itsevents. For the several Gos
A dictionary of the . | prurient curiosity, and were accepted byI the credulous. The circumstances re-lated carry their own refutation withthem, as being entirely out of harmonywith the spirit of our Lords life. Theytend to confirm the canonical Gospels asthe counterfeit presupposes the genuinecoin. A harmony of the Gospels is anarrangement of these four biographieswhich displays the chronology of theevents narrated, the variety of events,and the diversity of details. The objectis to present a full account of our Lordslife in the chronological sequence of itsevents. For the several Gospels seeMatthew, Mark, Luke, and John. GOURD. Jon. 4:6- Probably theplant which shaded the prophet waseither the castor-oil plant (Ricinus com-munis), which in the East grows rapid-ly to the height of even 15 feet, or, ac-cording to rapidly-prevailing opinion, itwas a vine of the cucumber family (Cu-curbita pepo), similar to our gourd, and343 GOU GOU still used for shade in Palestine. Inthe gardens about Sidon many an arbor. Castor-Oil Plant. (Eicimts Communis.) of gourds may be seen. But the plantwithers as rapidly as it shoots, and af-ter a storm or any injury to thestem its fruit may be seen hang-ing to the leafless tendrils whichso lately concealed it—a type ofmelancholy desolation. — Tris-tram. Some have regarded the ex-pression, It came up in a nightand perished in a night, as lit-eral, others as indicating merelyrapid growth. The declarationthat the Lord prepared a gourd,and prepared a worm, and pre-pared an east wind, indicatesthe direct and special interposi-tion of his providence to teachthe prophet a lesson of submis-sion to the divine will. Gourd, Wild. The wild gourdseaten by the sons of the prophets,2 Kgs. 4 : 38-41, were doubtlessthe handsome yet poisonous fruitof the colocynth (CitruUus colo-cynihus), from which the medi-cine of that name is vine is not common in Pal-estine, yet may be found aboutGilgal, and bears a fruit resem-bling an orange
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