. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . th the tares orthe wheat, let us put to ourselves the question, Am Ifollowing Christ ? I am the light of the world, said our blessedLord: he that followeth me shall not walk in dark-ness, but shall have the light of life. John viii. honestly with your own hearts when you readthese words. It will be an evidence that they have 18* 198 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. made some
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . th the tares orthe wheat, let us put to ourselves the question, Am Ifollowing Christ ? I am the light of the world, said our blessedLord: he that followeth me shall not walk in dark-ness, but shall have the light of life. John viii. honestly with your own hearts when you readthese words. It will be an evidence that they have 18* 198 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. made some salutary impression on your mind, if youfeel that they contain a depth of meaning which atpresent you cannot comprehend; while you turn tothem again and again, with intense desire, like a minerwho has unexpectedly met with a rich vein in a goldmine, but hoiv rich, how deep he knows not. EEEDS Occur in Job xl. 21; Isa. ix. 14; xix. 15; lviii. 5;Matt. xi. 7; and several other places in the New Tes-tament. Reeds are a tribe of plants including several speciesgreatly differing from each other in size ; they resem-ble the grasses in their mode of growth, and belong tothe same natural family. They have slender, round,. smooth stems, very solid, and hard externally, eitherhollow or filled with pith, and jointed or divided atcertain distances by woody partitions. From thesejoints spring long, narrow leaves, and clusters of chaffyflowers. The plants called in the Bible calamus,cane, and flag, were different species of reeds. REEDS. 199 The calamus is mentioned in Exod. xxx. 23; Cant,iv. 14; and Ezek. xxvii. 19. The same word is ren-dered sweet cane in Isa. xliii. 24; Jer. vi. 20. Inthe New Testament the corresponding Greek word isrendered reed. The calamus aromaticus is a plant of India andArabia. While growing, it scents the air with a fra-grant smell; and, when cut down, dried, and powder-ed, makes an ingredient in the richest perfumes. Thisplant was probably among the number of those
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