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hopes were not disappointed. When Moses left Egypt in haste, neither the

Egypt, but because it was necessary in order to preserve it from corruption, till it could be carried to the place of sep-hurry of the departure, nor the imulture. The same reason existed for dealing in a similar manner with the body of Joseph. He was accordingly embalmed and put in a coffin, but not buried. Where the body was kept in the interval prior to the exodus from Egypt we are not informed; but being dead, he yet spake to the Israelites. His venerable mummy, waiting for the time of its removal, cried aloud to his kinsmen, 'Here is not your rest; you are in a strange land; but God will surely visit you and bring you into the land which he sware to your fathers to give you.' Joseph's dying

mense load of business and care which then lay upon his mind made him forget the bones of Joseph. He would have thought himself guilty of the basest ingratitude, and even of perjury, if the oath made to the dying patriarch had not been observed. Not one, it may be presumed, of those persons to whom the oath had been administered, was then in the land of the living. But the oath which they had sworn survived their own dissolution, and lived in its binding power upon the consciences of their descendants.

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Abrek, or bow the knee, meaning of the term considered,

Accepting the face, what meant by it,

According to the mouth of, what meant by the phrase,

I. 29

II. 287

I. 313

II. 356, 311

Adam, import of the name,

I. 109

how he is said to have begotten a son in his own likeness,

I. 109

Adultery, how punished,

II. 243

Almighty, or All-sufficient, Shaddai, a title of the Most High,

I. 268

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Animal food, not an ordinary diet among the Orientals,
Animals, brought to Adam to be named,

I. 286

I. 64

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Archers wounding Joseph, how phrase to be explained,

II. 412

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Before the Lord, the sense of the phrase,

Barter, how carried on in ancient times,

Bearing upon the knees, what to be understood by,
Beasts, clean and unclean, grounds of the distinction of,

Begin, sometimes means to continue an action,
Being with one, peculiar force of the expression,

Believing in God, the phrase explained as applied to Abraham,
Benediction, prophetical, why accompanied with eating and drink-

ing,

Benjamin, import of the name,

Bethel, why called Beth-aven,

in what sense called God's house,

Bethlehem, account of the modern,
Birth-day feasts, common in ancient times,

Birthright, in what it consisted,

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Bishop, peculiar sense of the original term,

II. 281

Bless, what the term imports,

I. 39

Blessing, used in the sense of gift, or an act of liberality,

II. 182

Blindness, applied to signify the effects of vertigo of the brain,

I. 306

Bottles, eastern, described,

I. 353

Bowing down, common token of respect in the East,

II. 24

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Bricks, what kind employed in the building of Babylon,
Brother, used for kinsman,

I. 181

II. 19

Building one's house, equivalent to raising up children,
Burnt-offerings, nature of,

I. 257

I. 147

Burying-place, what implied by the purchase of one,

II. 22, 27

nature of the most ancient,

Butter, the use of it as an article of diet in the East,
By the life of Pharaoh, the oath considered,

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Calling upon the name of the Lord, what meant by it,
Camel's milk, great use made of in the East,

II. 165

Cannot, used not unfrequently to express moral inability,
Casting out the bondwoman, what meant by the expression,

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Child, used in the sense of lad, stripling,
Children of the East, what people intended by the phrase,
Circumcision, nature and origin of the institution,
Coat of many colors, what to be understood by Joseph's,
Coats, how God is said to have made for our first parents,
Command, peculiar sense of the term,

Commanding one's household, what implied by it,
Communing with a servant, common in the East,

Comparative, for absolute expressions, not unfrequent in the
Scriptures,

Concubine, what kind of connexion implied by the term,
Corrupting, ascribed to God in the sense of destroying,
Corruption, how ascribed to the earth,

Counting for righteousness, phrase explained,

Covenant, scriptural sense of the term,

Covenant of salt, what

Covering of the eyes, how Abraham was a to Sarah,
Creation, the true import of the term

Cursing, how to be understood when spoken of God,

in what sense the serpent was cursed,

in what sense the ground,

Cutting off a soul, what implied in that punishment,
Cutting a covenant, what meant by,

D.

Day, in what sense the term used in the Mosaic narrative,

in what sense said to be great,

Dead man, used for one in imminent danger of death,

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I. 243

I. 128

I. 328

I. 344

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I. 277

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Dead woman, in what sense Rachel affirmed that she should be

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Die, how Adam was to in the day of his disobedience,
Digging a grave for one's self, custom in relation to,
Dividing one's self, in military movements, what meant by it,
Diviner, in what sense this character is ascribed to Joseph,
Drawing water, performed by females in the East,

Dreams, repetition of, what meant by,

anciently a mode of divine communication,

1. 63

II. 421

II, 324

II. 37

II. 226

I. 337

Drinking, at feasts, how the phrase to be understood,

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Eating the forbidden fruit, design of the prohibition considered,

1. 62

Eber, why Shern called the father of his children,

I. 175

Edar, tower of, passage respecting explained,

II. 208

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Enmity, how put between the seed of the serpent and the seed of

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Everlasting covenant, everlasting possession, how the phrase to

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Falling out by the way, what meant by the expression,
Father of many nations, in what sense Abraham was to be,

II. 343

I. 269

Fatness of the earth, how used as a symbol of spiritual blessings,
Fear of Isaac, in what sense God so termed,

II. 92

II. 154

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Fifth part of the land, what meant by Joseph's taking it,

II. 282

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Fulfilling one's week, what meant by the expression,

II. 125

Full of days, what the import of the phrase as applied to Abra-
ham,

II. 56

G.

Gates, how said to be possessed,

II. 15

usual place of ratifying contracts,

II. 25

Gates of hell, how said not to prevail against the church,

II. 195

Gathered to one's fathers, what meant by being,

II. 57

Generations, original term how used,

I. 51

Getting a man from the Lord, how Eve's words respecting to be

understood,

I. 95

Getting or making souls, what meant by the expression,

I. 198

Giants, the antediluvian, term explained,

I. 118

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