. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . vi., 5. probably from Gath, a wine-press, hence n vintage song, betokens a light joyous air; and shu/ionoth, in Hah. iii., 1, a wild ami 1 1 Sam. xviii., 6. MUSTARD 671 MYRRH mournful strain. Sometimes the melodyappears to be indicated by the first wordsof a song then generally known. This,without doubt, is the explanation of thewords al-tasoliith, destroy not; aijeleth-sha-har, hind of the dawn; jonath-elem-reclw-Ici
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . vi., 5. probably from Gath, a wine-press, hence n vintage song, betokens a light joyous air; and shu/ionoth, in Hah. iii., 1, a wild ami 1 1 Sam. xviii., 6. MUSTARD 671 MYRRH mournful strain. Sometimes the melodyappears to be indicated by the first wordsof a song then generally known. This,without doubt, is the explanation of thewords al-tasoliith, destroy not; aijeleth-sha-har, hind of the dawn; jonath-elem-reclw-Icim, the dumb dove of distant places;muth-labben, probably on the death of ason; shushan-eduth, lily of the testimony;ahoshannim, lilies; shosiiannim-eduth, lil-ies of the testimony. Maschil, however, asong, a poem; michtam, a writing, apoem ; and shiggaion, which indicates a wildand mournful ode, serve rather to describethe composition than to direct in its per-formance. Mustard. Mustard, with us, is an annualplant. It is always small, and is properlyan herb. The Hebrew writers speak of themustard-tree as oue on which they couldclimb, as on a fig-tree. All plants of that. nature grow much larger in a warm climate,like that of Palestine, than in colder seeds of this tree were remarkably small,so that they, with the great size of the plant,were an apt illustration of the progress of theChurch and of the nature of faith. I haveseen, says Dr. Thomson, this plant, on therich plain of Akkar, as tall as the horse andhis rider. To furnish an adequate basis forthe proverb, it is necessary to suppose that avariety of it was cultivated, in the time ofour Saviour, which grew to an enormous size,and shot forth large branches, so that thefowls of the air could lodge in the branches of it. It may have been perennial, and havegrown to a considerable tree; and there aretraditions in the country of specimens solarge that a man could climb into having seen red pepper bushes
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