. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . im-pression. The Pythagoreans believed the airto be peopled with spirits, under the govern-ment of a chief who there held his seat ofempire. The Jews entertained the sameopinion. To this notion Paul probably al-ludes in describing Satan as the Prince ofthe power of the air. [1 Cor. ix., 26; xiv., 9;,2.] Akrabbim (scorpion cliffs), a range of hillsto the south of the Dead Sea. The wholeregion is infested with sc
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . im-pression. The Pythagoreans believed the airto be peopled with spirits, under the govern-ment of a chief who there held his seat ofempire. The Jews entertained the sameopinion. To this notion Paul probably al-ludes in describing Satan as the Prince ofthe power of the air. [1 Cor. ix., 26; xiv., 9;,2.] Akrabbim (scorpion cliffs), a range of hillsto the south of the Dead Sea. The wholeregion is infested with scorpions, whence thename. It is also called Maalehacrabbim.[,4; ,3; Judg. i., 36.] Alabaster. By the English word alabas-ter is to be understood both that kind whichis also known by the name of gypsum, andthe Oriental alabaster, which is a fibrous car-bonate of lime, and much valued on accountof its translucency and its variety of color-ed streakings. Both these kinds, but espe-cially the latter, have been long used for va- rious ornamental purposes, such as the fabri-cation of vases, boxes, etc.; and the ancientsconsidered alabaster the best material in. 1 Corap. 1 Chron. vi., C6, 69, with 2 Chron. xi., 10.—3 Numb, xxxiv., 11.—3 Josh, xv., 32 ; xix., 7; xxi., 10;1 Chron. iv., 32.—4 Neh. xi., 29. Alabaster Vessels from the British Museum. The in-scription on the middle vessel denotes the quantityit holds. which to preserve their ointments. Vasesof white alabaster have been found amongthe ruins of Nineveh, which were used forholding ointments or cosmetics. The wordalabaster occurs in the N. T. only in theaccount of the woman who brought an ala-baster box of spikenard,1 and poured it onthe Saviours head as he sat at meat in thehouse of Simon. This was probably a vaserather than a box. The Oriental alabastersoften had a long, narrow neck; and it notonly accords with the Greek to suppose thatthe woman broke this in two, but makes theact far more expressive.
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