. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . cture of paperthe Chinese wrote upon thin boards, with asharp tool. Reeds and canes are still usedas writing implements among the Tartars;and the Persians and other Orientals writeon leaves, or the bark of trees. The Greeksand Romans occasionally engraved their lawson tablets of brass. Even before the days ofHomer tablet-books were made of wood cutin thin slices, which were painted and pol- 1 Gen, v., 1; Dan. vii., 10
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . cture of paperthe Chinese wrote upon thin boards, with asharp tool. Reeds and canes are still usedas writing implements among the Tartars;and the Persians and other Orientals writeon leaves, or the bark of trees. The Greeksand Romans occasionally engraved their lawson tablets of brass. Even before the days ofHomer tablet-books were made of wood cutin thin slices, which were painted and pol- 1 Gen, v., 1; Dan. vii., 10; Matt, i., 1; Rev. xx., 12.—2 Exod. xxxix., 30. BOTTLE 129 BOTTLE ished; and the pen was an iron instrument,called a style. In later times, these surfaceswere waxed over, that the writing might beobliterated for further use. Tablet-bookswere not discontinued till the fourteenthcentury of the Christian era. At length thesuperior preparations of paper, parchment,and vellum became general, and supersededother materials in all entirely civilized na-tions. If an ancient book were large, and in-scribed upon tablets, these were sometimesconnected by rings at the back, through. which a rod was passed by which to carrythem; if inscribed upon skins, or other flex-ible materials, a number of them were con-nected together. These were written in smallcolumns,1 upon the inside only, with rare ex-ceptions, and were rolled round a stick orcylinder; if they were very long, round twocylinders, from the two extremities. Hencea book or roll written within and withoutbetokens the fullness of its Theserolls could be easily sealed; hence a sealedbook is an unopened book, whose contentsare secret. Such a book is the one with sev-en seals—the number seven denoting com-pleteness—referred to in Eev. v., 1, whichJohn, in prophetic vision, saw unrolled. The Book of Life is, as it were, a regis-ter of those who are to live forever in thedivine favor — Gods book, which he keepsof his chos
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