. A dictionary of important names, objects, and terms, found in the Holy Scriptures . THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. P. THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. P. 9. ARI 13 ASH Noahs ark rested, was probably the Ar-dagh or finger-mountain, near the northeast of Armenia. It standsin a large plain, thirty-sixmiles east from Erivan, shap-ed like a sugar-loaf, and isvisible nearly two hundredmiles distant. Its top is inac-cessible on account of theheight of the snow whichperpetually covers it. Themiddle part is haunted by amultitude of tigers; somepoor flocks, and two pitifulmonasteries are seen at thefoot. •
. A dictionary of important names, objects, and terms, found in the Holy Scriptures . THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. P. THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. P. 9. ARI 13 ASH Noahs ark rested, was probably the Ar-dagh or finger-mountain, near the northeast of Armenia. It standsin a large plain, thirty-sixmiles east from Erivan, shap-ed like a sugar-loaf, and isvisible nearly two hundredmiles distant. Its top is inac-cessible on account of theheight of the snow whichperpetually covers it. Themiddle part is haunted by amultitude of tigers; somepoor flocks, and two pitifulmonasteries are seen at thefoot. • ARCHANGEL; the chiefangel. The name seemsnever to be applied to anycreated being, and probablymeans Jesus Christ. 1 16. AREOPAGUS; the highcourt of Athens, calledMarshill, because it washeld on that eminence. Itfirst consisted of nine judges,afterward of thirty, and final-ly of five hundred. Thereare still to be seen vestigesof their seats, cut in a rockafter a semicircular , when cited beforethem on a charge of settingforth strange gods, preach-ed so ably that he was dis-missed, and Dionysi
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