The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . l student, and will attract his close atten-tion to the subject. In the above descriptionthree objects are distinguished: (1) The stand. (2) The boat or ark. (3) The canopy. Thislast is not, as the extract would suggest, an alter-native for the second; but is most generally seenwith and in the boat. This is shown in the firstcut, which exhibits all the parts together, and atrest. The poi
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . l student, and will attract his close atten-tion to the subject. In the above descriptionthree objects are distinguished: (1) The stand. (2) The boat or ark. (3) The canopy. Thislast is not, as the extract would suggest, an alter-native for the second; but is most generally seenwith and in the boat. This is shown in the firstcut, which exhibits all the parts together, and atrest. The points of resemblance to the Jewish arkare many and conspicuous, as in the stand,which, in some of its forms, and leaving out thefigures represented on the sides, bears so close aresemblance to the written description of the He-brew ark that it may safely be taken as an authen-tic illustration of its form. Then the cherubimof the Hebrew ark find manifest representativesin the figures facing each other, with wings spreadinwards and meeting each other, which we findwithin a canopy or shrine which sometimes restsimmediately upon this stand, but more generallyin the boat, which itself rests thereon. We direct. attention also to the hovering wings above, whichare very conspicuous in all Egyptian representa-tions. (See Cherubim.) Other analogies occurin the persons who bear the shrine—the priests;and in the mode of carrying it, by means ofpoles inserted in rings; and it is observable that,as in the Hebrew ark, these poles were not with-drawn, but remained in their place when theshrine was at rest in the temple. Such are theprincipal resemblances. That the Israelites during the latter part oftheir sojourn in Egypt followed the rites and re-ligion of the country, and were (at least many ofthem) gross idolaters, is distinctly affirmed inScripture (Josh. xxiv:i4; Ezek. xxiii 13, 8, 19),and is shown by their ready lapse into the wor-ship of the golden calf, and by the striking factthat th
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