Diseases of the Bible / by Risdon Bennett.

  • James Risdon Bennett
Date:
1887
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Credit: Diseases of the Bible / by Risdon Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    mark,' and ' What, is not the plague the dart of Almighty God, and can we escape the blow that He levels at us ? Is not His hand steady to hit the person He aims at?' Section 11.—Boils and Blains. The sixth plague with which Pharaoh and the people of Egypt were visited for refusing to let the Israelites depart is thus described in Exodus ix. 8, et seq.: ' And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 'And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 'And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh ; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast. ' And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. ' And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them ; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.' The word which our translators here render boils is by the Septuagint termed eA/c?;, elsewhere rendered sore, or ulcer, the Hebrew word being ]'n*A\ Blains in the Greek is rendered <l)kvKT[hes, phlyctencB of medical writers, the Hebrew being ^IL/'Syn^. In the tenth verse the words, ' and it became a boil breaking forth with blains,' are in the Greek eye'rero eAxr;