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GENERAL CONTENTS, Preface. The Jewish and other

Sects and Factions.

Description of Measures, Weights, and Coins. Table of Measures, Weights, and Coins.

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Comparative Chronological Table of the Kings and Prophets of Judah and Israel. Table of the Stations of the Israelites in the Wilderness. Chronological Arrangement of the Old Testament. List of the Books of the Old and New Testament, ai-ranged in the Bible Order, and Chronologically.

The Book The Book

Map

of the Peninsula of Sinai, with part of Egypt.

The The The The

Map

of Genesis. of Exodus.

of

Canaan

Book Book Book Book

of Leviticus. of Numbers. •

of Deuteronomy. of Joshua.

as divided

among the

Tribes, with the Localities of the Nations prior to the Conquest

of Joshua.

The Book of Judges. The Book of Ruth. The Books of Samuel. Map of the Kingdom of Judah, exhibiting the known Scriptural Sites, and those not yet identified by Modern Research. The Books of the Kings. Map of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, with Assyria, Chaldea, Media, Armenia, and Syria, illustrating the Kingdom under Solomon and the Captivities. The Books of the Chronicles. The Book of Ezra. The Book of Nehemiah. The Book of Esther. The Book of Job. The Book of Psalms. The Book of the Proverbs. The Book of Ecclesiastes. The Song of Solomon. The Book of the Prophet Isaiah. The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah. The Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel. The Book of the Prophet Daniel. The Book of the Prophet Hosea. The Book of the Prophet Joel. The Book of the Prophet Amos. The Book of the Prophet Obadiah. K^ The Book of the Prophet Jonah.

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GENERAL CONTENTS.

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Tlie Book of the Prophet T\Iicah. The Book of the Prophet Nahum. The Book of the Prophet Habakkuk. The Book of the Prophet Zephaniah. The Book of the Prophet Haggai. The Book of the Prophet Zechariah. The Book of the Prophet Malachi. Summary View of the Principal Events of the Period from

the Close of the Old Testament

Times of the New Testament. The Great Prophecies and Allusions to Christ in the Old Testament. Passages in the Old Testament quoted or alluded to in the New Testament. The Names, Titles, and Characters of the Son of God Jesus Christ Our Lord,

Canon

until the

in their variety, as

found in the Scriptures.

THE NEW TESTAMENT. Map

Commencement The Gospel by Matthew. The Gospel by Mark.

of Palestine at the

of the Christian ^Era, illusti-ating the Gospel History.

Plan of Jerusalem. The Gospel by Luke. Map, showing a Comparative View of the Persian and Roman Empires. The Gospel by John. Map of the Eastern Portion of the Mediterranean, with the Counti-ies adjacent, illustrating the Apostolic History. The Acts of the Apostles.

The Epistle to the Romans. The Epistles to the Corinthians. The Epistle to the Galatians. The Epistle to the Ephesians. The Epistle to the Philippians. The Epistle to the Colossians. The Epistles to the Thessalonians. The Epistles to Timothy. The Epistle to Titus. The Epistle to Philemon. The Epistle to the Hebrews. The Epistle of James. The Epistles of Peter. The Epistles of John. The Epistle of Jude. The Book of the Revelation.

Harmony

of the Four Evangelists, Chronologically arranged.

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Jesus Christ, to

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the Jews, are from the best authorities.

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Israel wUl, it

is

history of the kingdoms of

hoped, materially decrease the difficulty of understanding this portion of

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HisTOET

of the period between the close of the

Testament, will furnish

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Old Testament Canon and the times of the

desirable information of the political state of Judea during the

Lord and his Apostles. The Tabular Haemoxt of the Four Gospel

of our

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The CoMPAEATiYE YiEW

of the

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Quotations from the Old Testament by the more complete than any other similar

believed, is

New Testament list.

It

remarked, in connection with these quotations, and to illustrate the value of such a help as ofiered, that in every case in

the

New

which we can establish an undoubted reference of the

Testament to previous revelation in the Old Testament, we have, as

infallible interpretation

soundness of our

around which to accumulate further

own understanding

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artistic execution,

Faternoster Soio.

is

be

here

Spirit of G-od in

were, a nucleus of

and by which to estimate the

of the Scriptures.

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THE JEWISH AND OTHER SECTS AND FACTIONS MENTIONED IN THE SCEIPTURES, ABBIDGED FROM THE "COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE."

The Pharisees most probably

derived

their

from D''C^nD. perusMm, in the Chaldee dialect, Xierishin,

and

i^''tJ^^'12>

name

|''K^''12.

perishaya, and in Syriac,

pherishai, wbicli signifies persons

who are

( ff\ »yj^ » separated ivom.

others; which name they assimied because they pretended to a more than ordinary sanctity, and strictness in religious observances. (Acts chap. xxvi. 5.) In the time of our Saviour, it would appear that the great mass of the

common

people, attracted

by

their exterior sanctity,

and their rehgious mysteries, were Pharisees. The leading distinction of character in this sect, howfrom their holding the traditions of the arose ever, elders which they not only set upon an equal footing with the law of God, but, in many cases, explained away the latter by the former. The Sadducees most probably derive their name from SadoTc, a pupil of Antigonus Sochaeus, president of the great their zeal,

;

Sanhedrin about 260 years before Christ, who inculcated upon his scholars the duty of serving God out of pure love to him, and not in a servile manner, under the fear of punishment, or with the hope of reward. Sadok, misunderstanding this spiritual doctrine, concluded that there was no future state of rewards and punishments and accordingly taught and propagated that error after his master's death. Hence they held, that *' there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit" (Mat. xxii. 23. Ac. xxiii. 8), and that the soul perishes with the body at death they rejected aU traditions, adhering strictly to the letter of Scripture, but preferring the books of Moses and they denied the superintending providence of God, and held that man enjoyed the most ample freedom of action, having the absolute power of doing either good or evil as he thought proper, and having his prosperity or adversity placed within his own control, being re:

spectively the effects of his

The EssENES probably

wisdom or foUy. derive their

name from the

Pael «_aXCJ j asi, to heal or cure ; for Philo calls those who Uved a contemplative life Q)epa~ nevrai, Physicians, not because they studied physic, but because they applied themselves to the cure of the diseases of the soul. These Therapeutce were exceedingly abstemious in their diet, their food being plain and Syriac \SD\

•>

eso, in

and their drink water. Their houses were mean made of undyed wool, which they never changed till worn out; and they neglected aU bodily ornaments, and would not so much as anoint themselves with oil. They lived in societies, and had all their goods in common they were very exemplary in their morals and were most rigid in their observance of the sabbath. They held, among other tenets, the immortality of the

they exercised any government over the world ; and held that the chief good consisted in the gratification of the appetites. They also denied the resurrection of the body and the immortality of the aovl.

OF THE CHIEF POLITICAL FACTIONS AMONG THE JEWS. The Samaeitans,

so called from the country they in-

its name from the city of Samaria, were originally heathens, of various nations, to whom the king of Assyria gave the cities and lands of the

habited, which derived

Israehtes after their captivity.

When

they

first settled

in the country, they practised only the idolatrous rites

of the several nations whence they came ; but afterwards they incorporated the worship of the true God with the several customs and modes of worship to which they had been accustomed and while Jehovah was feared, because of his supposed influence in the land, all the other gods of the Babylonians, Cuthites, Hamathites, Avites, and Sepharvites, were paid divine honours. (3 Ki. xvii. 24, &c.) This monstrous mixture of idolatry with the worship of the true God continued till after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity. The Heeodiaits, rendered in the Syriac version, ;

fcHDjOJofl

AaO>»

devaith herodes, "those of the house

the domestics) of Herod," most probably derived their name from Herod the Great; and were distinguished (i.

e.

from the other Jews by concurring with Herod's scheme of subjecting himself and his dominions to the Romans and likewise by complying with him in many heathen practices, such as erecting temples with images for idolatrous worship, bidlding theatres, and instituting pagan games, and placing a golden eagle over the gate of the temple of Jehovah. This symbohsing with idolatry, upon views of interest and worldly pohcy, was probably the leaven of Herod, against which our Lord cautioned his disciples.

(Mar.

riii.

15.)

It is also probable, that

the Herodians, in their doctrinal tenets, were chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, who were the most indifferent to rehgion of any of the Jews ; for that which is called by one evangelist, " the leaven of Herod," (Mar. viii. 15,) is by another styled "the leaven of the Sadducees."

coarse,

(Mat. xvi.

their clothes

The Galileans, or Gaulonites, were a faction raised up and headed by Judas the Galilean, or Gaulonite, against the Roman government, on occasion of the tax which Augustus levied in Judea, when he reduced it to the form of a Roman province. He exhorted them to shake off this yoke, teUing them that tribute was due to God alone, and consequently should not be paid to the

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6.)

and that rehgious hberty, and the authority of

soul,

Romans

ments

the divine laws, were to be defended by force of arms. The Zealots, of which we read so much in Josephus's

(though they denied the resurrection,) the existence of angels, and a future state of rewards and punish;

and beheved every thing to be ordered by an

account of the Jewish war,

eternal fatality, or chain of causes.

The Stoics were the hiunan

followers of Zeno,

and held that

were governed by fate they denied the resurrection of the body, and the immortality of

all

affairs

;

:

the soul.

The Epicueeans were the followers oiUpicurus; who acknowledged no gods except in name, and denied that

closely resembled

The Sicaeii,

them in

if

not the followers of Judas,

their principles

and practices.

StKootoi, rendered murderers, in Ac. xxi.

38, were properly assassins, who derived their name from their using poniards like the Roman sices, which they concealed under their garments, and with which

they privately stabbed the objects of their malice.

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THE JEWISH AMD OTHEB

MEASURES, WEIGHTS, AND COINS, MENTIONED IN THE SCKIPTUEES.

waa a Eoman measure of liquids, equal to about a pint and a half English. 2. The chcenix, xoivif, rendered a measure (Re. vi. 6), was a Grecian measure of capacity, about a pint and a

1. The names of tlie smaller Meamrea of length among the Hebrews have been borrowed from some of the members of the human body, as digit, handbreadth, or palm, span, foot, cubit. The following are the measures of length mentioned in Scripture 1. The digit, or fingerbreadth, y^Vi^. ^tzbci, is said to contain the breadth of six barleycorns, where thickest, and equal to 0.912 inch, or rather more than threefourths of an inch. 2. The haiidbreadth, or palm, nQt3> tophach, is the width of a man's four fingers laid flat, i. e. four digits, or rather more than 3| inches. 3. The span, HIT* zereth, is the measure from the thumb to the httle finger expanded, equal to three palms, or about 10 inches. 4. The cubit, nOX> ammah, is the measure of a inan's arm, from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger, equal to about 1 foot 8 inches; though some compute it at 1 foot 9 inches, and others at 1 foot 6 inches, or even less. 5. The fathom, apyvia, is the distance between the hands stretched out, mcluding the breast, equal to four cubits, or about 6 feet 8 inches. 6. The reed, H^p, kaneh, was six cubits and a hand-

4),

corn-measure. The mctretes, /u.e7pr}TT}?, rendered ^riin (Jno. ii. 6), supposed to be equal to the Hebrew bath, t. e. about seven gallons and a half. half, 3.

:

is

III.

and as

mentioned in Scripture

The

money must be

The

for dry, the following are

£b

was a measure of dry things, and

EngUsh.

10. The cor, "^3, or (copo?, was a measure both for bqmds and soUds, of the same capacity as the homer

(Eze. xlv. 14.

Lu.

for

which

fraction,

we may,

;

:

contained fifteen seahs, as Epiphanius states, equal to 16 pecks EngUsh. 9. The homer, or chomer, "IJ^Hj a. measure of dry things, contained ten ephahs (Eze. xlv. 11), equal to 32 pecks, 1 pint,

2s. Sg^-t?.,

4. The maneh, H^Dj or mina, in gold was equal in weight to 100 shekels (comp. 1 Ki. x. 17 with 2 Ch. ii. and consequently, 17), or about 31b. 9 oz. 1 dwt. 3 grains reckoning gold at dS4> an ovmce, was in value rather more than i6'180. But, in silver, it weighed only 60 shekels (Eze. xlv. 12), or 21b. 3oz. 7 dwt. 12 grains; and as a coin it was only equal to 50 shekels, or about

some of which were

log,

lethech, "Ifl ?,

be necessary to treat of both at

for convenience in computation, use f, the difference being only Uttle more than one-fifth of a farthing.

contained 24 eggs, or 85 pints English. 3. The omer, ^Oy, was a measure for things dry (Ex. xvi. 36), about 6^ pints English. 4. The hin, |\"|, was a measure of liquids (Ex. xxix. 40; XXX. 24, &c.), equal to two Attic choas, i, e. one gallon and a half English. 5. The seah, HNDj or o-aroi/, was a measure of things dry, containing ^ of an ephah, and equal to about two gallons and a half English. 6. The ephah, HQXj '^^ a measure of dry things, containing three saeta, or seahs, equal to about 7 gallons and a half EngUsh. 7. The bath, ]^3, or /Saro? (La. xvi. 6), was a measure of liquids, of the same capacity as the ephah, "the t€nth part of an homer" (Eze. xlv. 14). 8.

will

m^'

;

y^, the smallest measure for liquids, was one-fourth of a cab, and one-seventy-second of an ephah, about three-fourths of a pint. 2. The cab, ^p, /cajSo?, was one-sixth of a seah, and 1.

it

rendered apiece of money, was onetwentieth of a shekel (Ex. xxx. 13), weighing nearly 11 grains, in value about \\d. 2. The beka, yp3, was a half shekel (Ge. ixiv. 22. Ex. xxxviii. 26), weighing about 4 dwt. 131 grains, in value rather more than Is. l|i. 3. The shekel, 7pK>, according to which aU the other weights and coins are computed, has been variously estimated at from 218 grains and four-sevenths to 273 grains and three-fifths and consequently in value from Bp. CuJiBEELAND statcs that the weight of 2s. M. to 3s. the shekel was half a Roman oimce, or 219 grains, Troy weight; according to which, supposing the value of silver to be five shiLUngs an ounce, its value in EngUsh

breadth, or about 10 feet 10 inches. 7. The stadium, o-toSiov, contained 400 cubits, or about 145 paces, nearly equal to a furlong, or the eighth part of an English mile. 8. A mile, juiAtov, so called from mille, a thousand, contained in the East 10 stadia, or about one-fifth more than an English mile. II. Of Measures of capacity, liquids, and some for things

As the Hebrew Coins were originally Weights, it is by their respective weight that their value

ascertained, once. 1. The gerah,

is

xvi. 7).

Besides these measures, pecuUar to the Hebrews, there are three others mentioned in the New Testament, belonging to other nations. 1. The sextarius, or ieorjjs, rendered a pot (Mar. vii.

14s.

5. The talent, -|")3, kikkar, weighed 3000 shekels, or 1141b. 15 dwt.; and was in value about i6'342 3s. 9ti.

Besides these coins, proper to the Hebrew nation, the following Greek and Roman coins are mentioned in the New Testament 1. The mite, or Xemov, called by the later Jews ntD1"lQ» peruta, the eighth, i. e. of an assarium, was equal to half a quadrans (Mar. xi. 42), or about three-eighths of a :

farthing. 2. 'i\iQ farthing, KoSpavrr]9,or quadrans, so called from quatuor, four, was a Roman brass coin, in value about three-fourths of a farthing. 3. The assarium, aaaaptov, or as, rendered a farthing

(Mat. X. 29), and called by the Rabbins "11D^i5> »«