The natural history of the Bible ; or, A description of all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, trees, plants, flowers, gums, and precious stones, mentioned in the sacred scriptures: Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged / by Thaddeus Mason Harris.

  • Thaddeus Mason Harris
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1824
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Credit: The natural history of the Bible ; or, A description of all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, trees, plants, flowers, gums, and precious stones, mentioned in the sacred scriptures: Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged / by Thaddeus Mason Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. *, Having, in the alphabetical order of the preceding work, introduced only those names which occur in our common translation of the Old and New Tes- tament, I have found it necessary to make an ArPzeupix for the illustration of a few others, which our Translators have not mentioned expressly, and some, which are to be found only in the Apocrypha. Amaranruine. AMAPANTINOS. [From a, negative, and poco, to fade, wither. That cannot fade away, not capable of fading]. | This word occurs in 1 Peter, v. 4, where the apostle seems to allude to those fading garíands of leaves, which crowned the victors in the heathen games, and were consequently in high esteem among them. Comp. 1 Cor. ix. 25; 1 Peter, 1. 4. But the learned Henry Stephens, in his Greek ‘Thesaurus, thinks it improbable that Peter should use zguzagzvrivoc for apa- pevros, since guaozyrivoc is not formed from the adjective zjagzv- Toc, as signifying unfading, but from the substantive eagavros, the name of a flower, AMARANTH, so Called from its not speedily ading. Awzgayrivoc, therefore, will properly signify amaran- thine, but will be equivalent to unfading. Tmmortal Amaranth! a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon, for man's offence, To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life; And where the river of bliss, through midst of heaven, Rolls o’er Elysian flowers her amber stream : With these, that never fade, the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath’d with beams.” MILTON. AMIANTHUS. AMIANTOX. The fibrous mineral substance, commonly called Asbesios. * Lapis ex quo fila duci possunt, et tele fieri, quae comburi non possunt Hederic. Lex. in verb. ! ftis called ac€ecros, from a negative, and cGseros quenchable, from oGsyyvo, to quench, and means indestructible in the fires or, as in Matth. iii, 12; Mark, ix. 43, 45, and Luke, iii. 17, as an adjective, unquenchable, inextinguishable. By Strabo, |. ix. p. 606, it is used as an epithet for the constantly burning lamps in the temples; and in Plutarch, Numa, p. 66, for the vestal fire.