A dictionary of the . seen. But the plantwithers as rapidly as it shoots, and af-ter a storm or any injury to thestem its fruit may be seen hang-ing to the leafless tendrils whichso lately concealed it—a type ofmelancholy desolation. — Tris-tram. Some have regarded the ex-pression, It came up in a nightand perished in a night, as lit-eral, others as indicating merelyrapid growth. The declarationthat the Lord prepared a gourd,and prepared a worm, and pre-pared an east wind, indicatesthe direct and special interposi-tion of his providence to teachthe prophet a lesson of submis-sion to th
A dictionary of the . seen. But the plantwithers as rapidly as it shoots, and af-ter a storm or any injury to thestem its fruit may be seen hang-ing to the leafless tendrils whichso lately concealed it—a type ofmelancholy desolation. — Tris-tram. Some have regarded the ex-pression, It came up in a nightand perished in a night, as lit-eral, others as indicating merelyrapid growth. The declarationthat the Lord prepared a gourd,and prepared a worm, and pre-pared an east wind, indicatesthe direct and special interposi-tion of his providence to teachthe prophet a lesson of submis-sion to the divine will. Gourd, Wild. The wild gourdseaten by the sons of the prophets,2 Kgs. 4 : 38-41, were doubtlessthe handsome yet poisonous fruitof the colocynth (CitruUus colo-cynihus), from which the medi-cine of that name is vine is not common in Pal-estine, yet may be found aboutGilgal, and bears a fruit resem-bling an orange in size and shape,but very hard and having its yel-low rind marbled with green and. 344 Colocynthus, or Wild Gourd. {CitruUus Colocynthut. After Tristram.) GOV GRA white. The plant resembles the water-melon, and belongs to the same various reasons it is thought thatthe knops used in the ornamentalwork of Solomons temple were imita-tions of the colocynth. 1 Kgs. 6:18. GOVERNOR. Matt. 27:2. Af-ter Judaea became a province of theRoman empire, governors or procuratorswere appointed and sent thither fromRome. This was the office held by Pon-tius Pilate at the time of our Saviourscrucifixion. Sometimes the word gov-ernor is used as a general title for aruler or presiding officer. Gen. 42 Feast. GOZAN, a district of Mesopotamia,2 Kgs. 17:6; 18:11; 19:12; 1 Chr. 5:26; Isa. 37:12; probably identical withGauzanitis of Ptolemy, and Myydonia ofother writers. It was watered by theHabor, the modern Khabour, a largebranch of the Euphrates in Mesopotamia. GRACE denotes the love of God asdisplayed in his free favor toward menas sinners an
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