Identifier: scriptureillustr00gilb (find matches)
Title: Scripture illustrations. explanatory of numerous texts, and of various customs mentioned in the Bible, with twenty-eight cuts
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Gilbert, Reuben S. egr American Sunday-School Union. pbl
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Sunday School Union
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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be explained or illustrated by means ofthese delineations, is too great to be enume-rated here; and the youthful reader will findit a delightful task to search his Bible forand compare them with this account. Weshall, however, refer him to the seventh verseof the fifteenth chapter of Jeremiah, and espe-cially to the twelfth verse of the third chap-ter of St. Matthew, where the process of win-nowing with the fan is alluded to. 20 THRESHING IK THE EAST. We remark in conclusion, that we here setthe import of the phrase thou shalt not muz-zle the ox when he treadeth out the corn, asapplied by the apostle to ministers—that is, it is not fit that he who contributes to pre-pare food for others should be denied a suita-ble portion of sustenance for himself. Andit is a remarkable fact, that among all the na-tions of the East, the oxen which tread outthe corn never were, and to this day are notmuzzled, although they always were and stillare muzzled when employed in any otherkind of labour. -
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Eastern Method of Watering the Land, EASTERN METHOD OF WATERING THELAND. The annexed is a representation of the. Peraian Wheel, given upon the authority of Dr.Shaw, in order to elucidate several passagesof Scripture. While one division of the buck-ets descends empty, the rotation of the wheelbrings the other up full of water. The ma-chinery worked by cattle, is easily understood.Engines and contrivances of this kind, areplaced all along the banks of the river Nile,from the sea to the cataracts; their respectivesituations being higher, and consequently, thedifficulty of raising water greater, the fartherwe advance up that river. This method of conveying moisture, andnourishment to a land that is rarely refreshedwith rain, is often alluded to in the HolyScriptures, where also it is made the distin-guishing quality betwixt Egypt and the Pro-mised Land, or Canaan. The land, saysMoses to the children of Israel, Deut. xi. 10,11— whither thou goest in to possess it, isnot as the land of Eg

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