The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . 31. COILAE OE AN ASSYRIAN VEST. {Copied hy the Auihorfrom the British Museum)See Illustrations on xxi. 12. ILLUSTRATIONS, JOB XXXI. G.
The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . 31. COILAE OE AN ASSYRIAN VEST. {Copied hy the Auihorfrom the British Museum)See Illustrations on xxi. 12. ILLUSTRATIONS, JOB XXXI. G. 471 JOB XXXI. 6. The idea of mens actions, whether good or bad, being weighed was naturallyenough of early origin : hence we find continually represented on Egyptianmonuments and on mummy cases, the scales in which are being weighed theactions of the deceased individual whose is the monument or the {Copied hy the Author from ChampoUion.) Let him weigh me in an even let God know my integrity. In the picture before us, the good actions of a deceased individual are beingweighed; these are represented by a vase which is supposed to contain them, andwhich is placed in one of the scales ; in the other scale is an ostrich feather, theemblem of Truth or Justice. A report of the issue of the judgment is beingread to Osii-is, who with his crook and flagellum is seated on his throne, atthe foot of which sits the dog Cerberus, the guardian of the portals of theinvisible world. The unhappy individual is evidently found wanting ;sentence is pronounced and is already being executed, for the condemned sinner,in the form of a pig, is being ferried back to earth under the guidance of amerciless monkey. 26, 27. If I should see the sun when it shineth,Or the moon walking splendidly;And my heart should be secretly my hand should kiss my mouth. The religion of Sabeism, or the
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