* mice.
Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the
terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals.
William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of
the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at
Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the
correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian
kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to
bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and
famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice,
which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of
the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops.
It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their
gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the
evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs
us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the
pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member
affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his
circumstances, which he offers to his god.
Ex 8:5,17,24 10:14,15 Joe 1:4-7 2:25
* give glory.
Jos 7:19 Ps 18:44 66:3 *marg:
Isa 42:12 Jer 3:13 13:16 Mal 2:2 Joh 9:24 Re 11:13 16:9
* lighten.
5:6,11 Ps 32:4 39:10
* off your.
5:3,4,7 Ex 12:12 Nu 33:4 Isa 19:1
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