. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . the antediluvians, whohad made the progress in arts described inGen. iv., 21,22—it is quite possible that theymight not have been confined to the upper?story of the ship, as the word above doesnot necessarily mean on the upper part ofthe Vessel, but may mean the top of the win-dow-course. The window in chap, viii.,6, is a different word, and is properly an open-ing. Our Bible would convey the idea thatNoah was command
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . the antediluvians, whohad made the progress in arts described inGen. iv., 21,22—it is quite possible that theymight not have been confined to the upper?story of the ship, as the word above doesnot necessarily mean on the upper part ofthe Vessel, but may mean the top of the win-dow-course. The window in chap, viii.,6, is a different word, and is properly an open-ing. Our Bible would convey the idea thatNoah was commanded to make a window,and now opened that window; whereas theoriginal means that Noah was commanded tomake a window-course, or light system, andthat he opened (chap, viii., 6) the wiudow orcasement which he had made for that of the Covenant, a coffer, or chest,in the ancient Jewish Tabernacle, or was made of shittim, or acacia wood, threefeet nine inches in length, two feet throeinches in breadth and depth. It is elaborate-ly described in Exod. xxv., xxxvii. Thoughthere was in it at one time the golden potof manna and the rod of Aaron that budded,1. Ark of the Covenant. this was only for the sake of their better preservation; and the proper contents of the ark were the two tables of the covenant, of which it was made the special repository. Simply as containing these, it formed the______ most hallowed portion of the Tabernacle fur-niture ; was the peculiar shrine of the God-head. Irreverence to it was irreverence toJehovah. Hence the awful solemnity withwhich it was to be approached, and the se-verity that sometimes avenged any improp-er familiarity with which it was considered, this was fitted to give asublime view of the character of the O. , and placed it at an immeasurabledistance from the idolatrous religions ofheathendom. These, too, had their sacredshrines, that occasionally took a form notvery dissimilar to the Ark of the
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