A BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY: EXPLANATORY OF THE HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE JEWS AND NEIGHBOURING NATIONS. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PLACES AND PERSONS MENTIONED IN SACRED SCRIPTURE; AN EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY; AND NOTICES OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SECTS AND HERESIES. BY RICHARD WATSON. [REVISED BY THE AMERICAN EDITORS.] ΔΙΜΗΝ ἐστιν ἀκύμαντος, καὶ τεῖχος ἀρραγὲς, καὶ πύργος ἄσειστος, καὶ δόξα ἀναφαίρετος, καὶ ὅ πλα [An intimate acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures is a secure haven, and an impregnable bulwark, New-York: PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1855. NEW YORK THENEW YORK ASTOR, LEMOK PSD TILLEN FOUNDATIONS ENTERED, According to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by B. WAUGH AND T. MASON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of NEW YORK. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. No other improvements have been attempted in this edition of Mr. Watson's Biblical and Theological Dictionary, than adding a few notes in relation to some matters existing in this country, which had escaped the attention of the author, and rendering those passages and phrases into English which had been left untranslated. Such translations are included in brackets. It may be proper to remark, that only that part of the work from the eight hundred and forty second page has been printed under the superintendence of the present editor; the former part having passed through the press previous to the last general conference. It is not necessary to say any thing in commendation of this work. Whatever merit, however, may be attached to others of a similar character which have preceded it, we think it will be conceded by all, that Mr. Watson, by furnishing this Dictionary, has supplied a desideratum, in the department of Biblical and Theological literature, which had long been felt, and for doing which the religious community will not be backward in acknowledging its obligations. NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 1832. N. BANGS |