. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . l-ements were not consecrated on Good-Fri-day, but a portion for the use of the priest wasreserved from the day before; the altars weredivested of their ornaments, and black veilsand draperies were used to cover them ; andthe Gospel of John was read, because he wasa witness of our Lords passion. The Saxonswere accustomed to call Good-Friday by thename of Long-Friday, probably because ofthe long fastings and services p
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . l-ements were not consecrated on Good-Fri-day, but a portion for the use of the priest wasreserved from the day before; the altars weredivested of their ornaments, and black veilsand draperies were used to cover them ; andthe Gospel of John was read, because he wasa witness of our Lords passion. The Saxonswere accustomed to call Good-Friday by thename of Long-Friday, probably because ofthe long fastings and services practiced onthat day. See Easter. Goshen. 1. A district or province in Egyptwhich was assigned to the family of Jacob,and which the Israelites occupied till theirdeliverance from bondage. It is usuallycalled the land of Goshen, and appears tohave borne the name of the land of Rame-ses, unless this be the name of a district ofGoshen. The district itself is nowhere cir-cumstantially described, nor even definitelyindicated in Scripture, but the results of auexamination of Biblical evidence are thatthe land of Goshen lay between the eastern1 Matt, xxvii., 29. GOSHEN 399 GOSPEL. Map of the Land of Goshen and its Vicinity. part of the ancient Delta and the westernborder of Palestine; that it bordered upon theEiver Nile, or one of its mouths; that it wasscarcely a part of Egypt Proper, and was in-habited by other foreigners besides the Israel-ites; that it was a pasture-land, especiallysuited to a shepherd-people, and sufficient forthe Israelites, who there prospered, and wereseparate from the main body of the indications seem to indicate the mod-em Wady-t-Tumeykit, the valley along whichanciently flowed the canal of the Red Sea, asbeing the land of The name occurs three times in Joshuatwice as the name of a district, and once asa city. The city is connected with the hillcountry of Judah, and the land of Goshen issimply mentioned as being in the south » \GeS
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