. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . f his The Booh of the Wars of theLord, alluded to in Numb, xxi., 14, appearsto have been an ancient document knownto Hebrews, but not preserved in the sacredcanon. It was probably a collection of sa-cred odes commemorative of the triumphantprogress of Gods people. Bottle. Several words are used in Scrip-ture which our translators have rendered bottle. The skins of kids and goats, andsometimes of oxen, were an
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . f his The Booh of the Wars of theLord, alluded to in Numb, xxi., 14, appearsto have been an ancient document knownto Hebrews, but not preserved in the sacredcanon. It was probably a collection of sa-cred odes commemorative of the triumphantprogress of Gods people. Bottle. Several words are used in Scrip-ture which our translators have rendered bottle. The skins of kids and goats, andsometimes of oxen, were and are still usedfor holding liquids. When the animal iskilled, the head and feet are cut off, and thebody drawn out without any further incis-ion, The skin is tanned with acacia bark;the legs then serve for handles, and the neckas the month of the bottle, being tied upwhen the wine or water has been poured hairy side is outward. These bottlesare in constant use in Syria and the ad-jacent countries, and are very common alsoin Spain. Hence we may easily understandthe wine-bottles of the Gibeonites, old and 1 Jer. xxxvi., 23 » Eev. v., 1 3 Phil, iv., 3; Eev. ill., Ancient Italian Skin-bottles. From the delineationsin Herculaueum and Pompeii. rent and bound up, and also comprehend theallusion of our Lord to the danger of put-ting new wine, brisk and fermenting, into oldbottles, which it was likely would then the single bottle of wine brought byZiba,2 instead of being out of proportion tothe bread and fruits, contained, very prob-ably, a large quantity. The comparison,moreover, of a bottle in the smoke,3 shriv-eled and dried up, is very intelligible. Be-
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