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Title: Scripture illustrations. explanatory of numerous texts, and of various customs mentioned in the Bible, with twenty-eight cuts
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Gilbert, Reuben S. egr American Sunday-School Union. pbl
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Sunday School Union
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ish,which still forms the basis of East Indian per-fumes. The galbcmitm was the gummy resi-nous juice produced by the plant called theAfrican ferula, or bubon gummifera, out ofwhich, when any part wf it is broken, thereissues a little thin milk, of a cream colour.The frankincense is supposed to derive itsname from franc, free,- because of its liberalor ready distribution of its odours. It is a THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 117 dry resinous substance, in pieces or drops ofa pale yellowish or white colour, a strongsmell, and a bitter acrid taste; the tree whichproduces it is not well known. The Israelites were most strictly prohibitedon the most awful penalties, from making anyanointing oil or perfume, similar to thoseabove described. He that should compoundsuch, or apply any of this to any common pur-pose, even to smell to, Exodus xxx. 38,should be cut oft, that is, excommunicatedfrom his people, and so lose all right, title,and interest in the promises of God, and theredemption of Israel. 118
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The Horns of the Altai 119 ON THE HORNS OF THE ALTAR. When presenting our readers with the mostapproved sketches of the various altars usedin the Mosaic Rites, we stated that the exactform of the Horns of the Altar had not beensatisfactorily ascertained; the above represen-tation will, however, throw some further lightupon the subject. This drawing was takenfrom an ancient Egyptian picture, which hadbeen preserved by being buried in the ruins ofHerculaneum, a city that was overflowed andburied by the lava of Mount Vesuvius, in theyear of our Lord 79, and has become famouswithin the last century, by the number of cu-rious relics of antiquity that have been dugout of its ruins. This altar has at each of its four corners arising, which continues square to about halfits height, but from thence is gradually slopedoff to an edge or point,* and those risings areundoubtedly what were called the horns of theAltar, and probably show their true figure.The reader is desired to compare them with 1

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