Resultados para: "EARTHENWARE"

<p>the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken--It is thought that the pottery of the Israelites, like the earthenware jars in which the Egyptians kept their water, was unglazed and consequently porous, and that it was its porousness which, rendering it extremely liable to imbibe small particles of impure matter, was the reason why the vessel touched by an unclean person was ordered to be broken.</p>

<p>They did work wilily--They acted with dexterous policy, seeking the means of self-preservation, not by force, which they were convinced would be unavailing, but by artful diplomacy.

took old sacks upon their asses--Travellers in the East transport their luggage on beasts of burden; the poorer sort stow all their necessaries, food, clothes, utensils together, in a woollen or hair-cloth sack, laid across the shoulders of the beast they ride upon.

wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up--Goat-skins, which are better adapted for carrying liquor of any kind fresh and good, than either earthenware, which is porous, or metallic vessels, which are soon heated by the sun. These skin bottles are liable to be rent when old and much used; and there are various ways of mending them--by inserting a new piece of leather, or by gathering together the edges of the rent and sewing them in the form of a purse, or by putting a round flat splinter of wood into the hole.</p>

<p>HIS STRATAGEM AGAINST MIDIAN. (Jdg 7:16-24)

he divided the three hundred men into three companies--The object of dividing his forces was, that they might seem to be surrounding the enemy. The pitchers were empty to conceal the torches, and made of earthenware, so as to be easily broken; and the sudden blaze of the held-up lights--the loud echo of the trumpets, and the shouts of Israel, always terrifying (Num 23:21), and now more terrible than ever by the use of such striking words, broke through the stillness of the midnight air. The sleepers started from their rest; not a blow was dealt by the Israelites; but the enemy ran tumultuously, uttering the wild, discordant cries peculiar to the Arab race. They fought indiscriminately, not knowing friend from foe. The panic being universal, they soon precipitately fled, directing their flight down to the Jordan, by the foot of the mountains of Ephraim, to places known as the &quot;house of the acacia&quot; [Beth-shittah], and &quot;the meadow of the dance&quot; [Abel-meholah].</p>

<p>Warm professions can no more give value to insincerity than silver coating to rude earthenware.</p>

<p>As the two arms of silver denote the kings of the Medes and Persians [JOSEPHUS]; and the two thighs of brass the SeleucidÃ&amp;brvbr of Syria and LagidÃ&amp;brvbr of Egypt, the two leading sections into which GrÃ&amp;brvbrco-Macedonia parted, so the two legs of iron signify the two Roman consuls [NEWTON]. The clay, in Dan 2:41, &quot;potter&#039;s clay,&quot; Dan 2:43, &quot;miry clay,&quot; means &quot;earthenware,&quot; hard but brittle (compare Psa 2:9; Rev 2:27, where the same image is used of the same event); the feet are stable while bearing only direct pressure, but easily &quot;broken&quot; to pieces by a blow (Dan 2:34), the iron intermixed not retarding, but hastening, such a result.</p>

<p>feet . . . toes . . . part . . . clay . . . iron--explained presently, &quot;the kingdom shall be partly strong, partly broken&quot; (rather, &quot;brittle,&quot; as earthenware); and Dan 2:43, &quot;they shall mingle . . . with the seed of men,&quot; that is, there will be power (in its deteriorated form, iron) mixed up with that which is wholly of man, and therefore brittle; power in the hands of the people having no internal stability, though something is left of the strength of the iron [TREGELLES]. NEWTON, who understands the Roman empire to be parted into the ten kingdoms already (whereas TREGELLES makes them future), explains the &quot;clay&quot; mixture as the blending of barbarous nations with Rome by intermarriages and alliances, in which there was no stable amalgamation, though the ten kingdoms retained much of Rome&#039;s strength. The &quot;mingling with the seed of men&quot; (Dan 2:44) seems to refer to Gen 6:2, where the marriages of the seed of godly Seth with the daughters of ungodly Cain are described in similar words. The reference, therefore, seems to be to the blending of the Christianized Roman empire with the pagan nations, a deterioration being the result. Efforts have been often made to reunite the parts into one great empire, as by Charlemagne and Napoleon, but in vain. Christ alone shall effect that.</p>

<p>&quot;Lest any should say, How then is it that we continue to enjoy such unspeakable glory in a mortal body? Paul replies, this very fact is one of the most marvellous proofs of God&#039;s power, that an earthen vessel could bear such splendor and keep such a treasure&quot; [CHRYSOSTOM, Homilies, 8.496, A]. The treasure or &quot;the light of the knowledge of the glory of God.&quot; The fragile &quot;earthen vessel&quot; is the body, the &quot;outward man&quot; (Co2 4:16; compare Co2 4:10), liable to afflictions and death. So the light in Gideon&#039;s pitchers, the type (Jdg 7:16-20, Jdg 7:22). The ancients often kept their treasures in jars or vessels of earthenware. &quot;There are earthen vessels which yet may be clean; whereas a golden vessel may be filthy&quot; [BENGEL].

that the excellency of the power, &amp;c.--that the power of the ministry (the Holy Spirit), in respect to its surpassing &quot;excellency,&quot; exhibited in winning souls (Co1 2:4) and in sustaining us ministers, might be ascribed solely to God, we being weak as earthen vessels. God often allows the vessel to be chipped and broken, that the excellency of the treasure contained, and of the power which that treasure has, may be all His (Co2 4:10-11; Joh 3:30).

may be of God . . . not of us--rather, as Greek, &quot;may be God&#039;s (may be seen and be thankfully [Co2 4:15] acknowledged to belong to God), and not (to come) from us.&quot; The power not merely comes from God, but belongs to Him continually, and is to be ascribed to him.</p>

<p>But--&quot;Rather.&quot; The &quot;outward adornment&quot; of jewelry, &amp;c., is forbidden, in so far as woman loves such things, not in so far as she uses them from a sense of propriety, and does not abuse them. Singularity mostly comes from pride and throws needless hindrances to religion in the way of others. Under costly attire there may be a humble mind. &quot;Great is he who uses his earthenware as if it were plate; not less great is he who uses his silver as if it were earthenware&quot; [SENECA in ALFORD].

hidden--inner man, which the Christian instinctively hides from public view.

of the heart--consisting in the heart regenerated and adorned by the Spirit. This &quot;inner man of the heart&quot; is the subject of the verb &quot;be,&quot; Pe1 3:3, Greek: &quot;Of whom let the inner man be,&quot; namely, the distinction or adornment.

in that--consisting or standing in that as its element.

not corruptible--not transitory, nor tainted with corruption, as all earthly adornments.

meek and quiet--meek, not creating disturbances: quiet, bearing with tranquillity the disturbances caused by others. Meek in affections and feelings; quiet in words, countenance, and actions [BENGEL].

in the sight of God--who looks to inward, not merely outward things.

of great price--The results of redemption should correspond to its costly price (Pe1 1:19).</p>