Scripture botany, a descriptive account of the plants, trees [&c.] mentioned in holy Writ |
Common terms and phrases
A. V. rendered abundance acacia allusions almond appears Asia barley beautiful become botanists botany boughs branches called cedar celebrated colocynth colour conifers cultivated curious denote Dioscorides Divine doubt early Egypt Egyptian emblem employed England English famous feet Flora Græca flowers foliage fruit garden genus grapes grass Greek green grow Hebrew Hebrew word Hence Herodotus Holy Land hyssop idea intended Isaiah kind Kings latter leaves Lebanon Leguminosa lentils lilies literally Lord means mentioned mountains myrrh myrtle native nature never occurs Old Testament olive olive-tree original Ovid Palestine Paliurus palm particular passage perhaps plants Pliny pomegranate poplar present primæval probably prophet reference regard representative Romans rose says seeds seems sense Septuagint shittah-tree shrub Solomon Song of Solomon species spiritual stand sweet Syria terebinth term Theocritus Theophrastus things thorns translated tree unto vegetation vine Virgil wheat wild wood
Popular passages
Page 161 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 215 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 313 - I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Page 211 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His 'branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 202 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 3 - Pan! Piercing sweet by the river! Blinding sweet, O great god Pan! The sun on the hill forgot to die, And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly Came back to dream on the river.
Page 263 - Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Page 262 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 97 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle...
Page 272 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee: For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried: The Lord do so to me, And more also, If ought but death part thee and me.