. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . )le, Martha must guide to the tomb,some must remove the stone from the caves mouth, andothers loose the risen Lazarus from his grave-clothes. So,when Jonah was to be sheltered from the burning sun, that JONAH—GOURD. 97 which was best adapted to the purpose, and which grewwith the greattst rapidity, was selected to make the AUHOE COVKBED WITH A GOLIU). Is there any reason to suppose that, after all, it was not agourd, but some other plant, that of the castor-
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . )le, Martha must guide to the tomb,some must remove the stone from the caves mouth, andothers loose the risen Lazarus from his grave-clothes. So,when Jonah was to be sheltered from the burning sun, that JONAH—GOURD. 97 which was best adapted to the purpose, and which grewwith the greattst rapidity, was selected to make the AUHOE COVKBED WITH A GOLIU). Is there any reason to suppose that, after all, it was not agourd, but some other plant, that of the castor-bean, for ex-ample, as many learned critics have concluded ? It would be impertinent to say, or imply, that there is noreason for this, or for any other opinion adopted by learnedand impartial men, after careful examination; but their ar-guments do not for a moment disturb my settled convictionthat It was a gourd. The cause of their mistake may prob-ably be found in the fact that, in these modern Shemiti^-dialects, the word kurah—gourd—closely resembles, bothm form and sound, khurwah—castor-bean—just as the kikicm—gourd—of Jonah resembles the Egyjito-Greek /LvX-?—cas-tor-bean—according to Dioscorides. These accidental re-semblances may have led Jerome and others into the opin-ion that they were the same plant. But Orientals neverdream of training a castor-oil plant over a booth, or for a shade, and they would have but smal
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