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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX. Abaddon, no Linen of Egypt, 73, 74; fine, 192 Agriculture, praise of, 170 Literature, revival of, under Hezekiah, Agur, 179 155, 156 Ant, 66, 184 Apple, of the eye, 71; of night or dark- Massa, 179, 186 ness, 72, 134; of gold, 158 Maul, 159 Merchant, 192 Bee, 66, 67 Motives, prudential, moral worth of, 33 ff. Belial, 67 Nitre, 160 Coney, 184 Nose-ring, 94 Congregation, 63 Covenant of God, 50 Origen, his threefold sense of Holy Scripture, 144 Distaff, 190 Drunkenness, evils of, 149 ff. Parable, relation of to proverb, 17, 18 Parallelism, Hebrew, varieties of, 19 Eye, apple of, 71; evil, 147 Peace, Biblical meaning of, 51 Eyelids, painting of, 69 Peace-offerings, 73 Prophecy, or burden, 179 Fool, different Hebrew words for, 122 Proverbs, meaning of the word, 15; Future state, knowledge of, in O.T., 108 representative and inductive, 16; expansion of, 17 ff. Gifts, 112, 120 Proverbs, Book of, a compilation, 20; Girdle, 192 authorship, 25; moral and religious Greyhound, 185 teaching, 26 ff; quoted in N.T., 31, 32 Heart, Biblical meanings of, 48 Horseleach, 182 Rain, the latter, 115; in harvest, 162 Rephaim, 50 Ideals, teaching by, 29, 30 Rubies, 54 Ithie 178, 179 Sacrifices, associated with feasting, 118, Law, wide use of the word in Proverbs, 119 28, 171 Scarlet, 191 Lemuel, 186 Scorner, 45 Libraries, royal, 156 Sevenfold, 70 Sheol, 61, no Tribute, 100 Silk, igi Simple, 40, 41 Ucal, 178, 180 Sluggard, 155, 164 Snow, use of to cool wine, 158 Virtue, virtuous, 97, 188 Solomon, his part in the authorship of Vision, 177 Proverbs, 20 ff.; versatility of his genius, 23; his intercourse with wise Wisdom, personific...
