The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . sumedthat the children of Israel would, during theirsojourn in Egypt, learn, among other arts prac-ticed by their masters, that of working in pottery- ware. Thus, as early as the days of the Judges(iv:ig; v:25), bottles or vases composed of someearthy material, and apparently of a superiormake, were in use, for, what in the fourth chap-ter is termed a bottle, is in the fifth designateda
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . sumedthat the children of Israel would, during theirsojourn in Egypt, learn, among other arts prac-ticed by their masters, that of working in pottery- ware. Thus, as early as the days of the Judges(iv:ig; v:25), bottles or vases composed of someearthy material, and apparently of a superiormake, were in use, for, what in the fourth chap-ter is termed a bottle, is in the fifth designateda lordly dish. Isaiah (xxx:i4) expressly men-tions the bottle of the potters as the reading inthe margin gives it, being a literal translationfrom the Hebrew, while the terms which the pro-phet employs show that he could not have in-tended anything made of skin—he shall break itas the breaking of the potters vessel that isbroken in pieces, so that there shall not be foundin the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from thehearth, or to take water out of the pit. In the19th chapter, verse 1, Jeremiah is commanded:Go and get a potters earthen bottle; and (verse10) break the bottle; Even so, saith the Lord. Assyrian Glass Bottles (from the British MuseumCollection). of Hosts (verse 11), will I break this people andthis city as one breaketh a potters vessel, thatcannot be made whole again. (See also .-12-14.) Figurative. (1) Metaphorically the wordbottle is used, especially in poetry, for the cloudsconsidered as pouring out and pouring downwater (Job xxxviii .37), Who can stay the bot-tles of heaven? (2) Put thou my tears in abottle—that is, treasure them up—have a re-gard to them as something precious (Ps. lvi:8).(3) David was like a bottle in the smoke, whenhe was wasted with grief and trouble, and ren-dered almost useless (Ps. ). (4) Theinhabitants of Jerusalem were like bottles, whenGod poured into them the wine of his wrath andburst and ruined them (Jer. x
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