A dictionary of the . or the storing of earthen jarsor other vessels of wine. Among theHebrews and Greeks these jars wereburied up to the neck in the word wine-cellars in the passagecited probably denotes the patches ofground used to bury wine. See Wine. CELO-SYRIA. See Ccelo-Syria. CEiVCHREA (accurately ), the eastern harbor of Cor-inth, on the Saronic Gulf, and the em-porium of its trade with the Asiaticshores of the Mediterranean, about 9miles east of that city; the westernharbor was Lechasum. A church wasformed at Cenchrea, of which Phebewas a deaconess. Rom. 1
A dictionary of the . or the storing of earthen jarsor other vessels of wine. Among theHebrews and Greeks these jars wereburied up to the neck in the word wine-cellars in the passagecited probably denotes the patches ofground used to bury wine. See Wine. CELO-SYRIA. See Ccelo-Syria. CEiVCHREA (accurately ), the eastern harbor of Cor-inth, on the Saronic Gulf, and the em-porium of its trade with the Asiaticshores of the Mediterranean, about 9miles east of that city; the westernharbor was Lechasum. A church wasformed at Cenchrea, of which Phebewas a deaconess. Rom. 16 : 1. Paulsailed from thence to Ephesus. Acts CEN CEN 18 : 18. The town was full of idolatrousmonuments and shrines. It is now call-ed Kikrie*. CENSER. Lev. 10:1. A vesselused in the temple-service for the pur-pose of carrying the fire in which theincense was burned, taken from the per-petual supply on the altar of burnt-offering. It was sometimes made ofpure gold. 1 Kgs. 7 : 50; 2 Chr. 26 :10, 19. The censer was held in one. S^ Egyptian Centers. (Wilkinson.)hanrl. and the incense was carried inthe other hand. The priest strewed thepulverized incense upon the fire, andthe cloud of smoke ascended up in adark volume and filled the apartmentwith its fragrance. The word ren-dered censer in Heb. 9 : 4 means agolden altar of incense. CENSUS. In the 0. T. there ismention made of twelve censuses. 1. The earliest was under Moses, in thethird or fourth month after the object was to raise money for build-ing the tabernacle, each person num-bered—(. e. every male from 20 years andupward — being obliged to pay half ashekel. The census showed there were603,550 men. Ex. 38 : 26. 2. In Num. 1 : 2 there is the order fora second numbering, in the secondmonth of the second year after the Exodus. The result showed the samefigures. Num. 1: 46. This fact has ledsome to suppose that these two number-ings were in fact one, but applied to dif-ferent purposes. 3. The next census was made
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