The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ut great difficulty; but thejuniper is most plentiful there, and takes deeproot in the crevices of the rocks of Mount some, at least, of the cedars of the ancients Celsius was of opinion that the crcs indicatedthe Pmus sylvestris or Scotch pine, which yieldsthe red and yellow deals of Norway, and which islikewise found on Mount Lebanon. This opin-ion seems to be confirmed by E
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ut great difficulty; but thejuniper is most plentiful there, and takes deeproot in the crevices of the rocks of Mount some, at least, of the cedars of the ancients Celsius was of opinion that the crcs indicatedthe Pmus sylvestris or Scotch pine, which yieldsthe red and yellow deals of Norway, and which islikewise found on Mount Lebanon. This opin-ion seems to be confirmed by Ezekiel (xxvii:5),They have made all thy ship boards of fir treesof Senir, they have taken cedar from Lebanon tomake masts for thee, for it is not probable thatany other tree than the common pine would betaken for masts when this was procurable. Though Celsius appears to us to be quite rightin concluding that crcs, in some of the passagesof Scripture, refers to the pine tree, yet it seemsequally clear that there are other passages towhich this tree will not answer. (3) Cedar of Lebanon. It certainly appearsimprobable that a tree so remarkable for the mag-nificence of its appearance as the cedar of Leba-. Cedars of Lebanon. were a species of juniper is evident from the pas-sages we have quoted ; the wood of most of themis more or less aromatic. At a later period we have notices of the varioususes to which the wood of the ercs was applied,as 2 Sam. v :ii ; vii ; 1 Kings v :6, 8, 10; vi :g,10, 15. 16, 18, 20; vii :2, 3, 7, 11, 12; ix:ii ; x ;1 Chron. xvii:6; 2 Chron. ii:8; ix .27; all these passages the word eres is employed,for which the Arabic translation, according toCelsius, gives sunobar as the synonym. Thereis nothing distinctive stated respecting the char-acter of the wood from which we might drawany certain conclusion further than that, from theselection made and the constant mention of thematerial used, it may be fairly inferred that itmust have been co
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