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first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

Luke xxii, 21. But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.

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Luke xxiv, 40. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

Acts xx, 34. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

1 Cor. iv, 12. And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it.

1 Thess. iv, 11. And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we command

ed you.

Used in a great variety of idioms, examples of which are too numerous to be quoted; Thus: "At Hand," signifies near either in time or space." By the Hand," by means of." Into" or "In the Hand," into or in the power of, and "From the Hand," from the power of.

TO CLAP HANDS, THE
EXPRESSION OF SUDDEN
FEELING, USUALLY OF
CONTEMPT, SOMETIMES
OF JOY.

2 Kings xi, 12. And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

Job xxvil, 23. Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Job xxxiv, 37. For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

Ps. xlvii, 1. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

Ps. xcvili, 8. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.

Isa. lv, 12. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Lam. ii, 15. All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem.

Ezek. xxv, 6. For thus saith the

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Neh. xiii, 21. Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

Esther ii, 21. In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Esther iii, 6. And he thought alone; for they had shewed him scorn to lay hands on Mordecal the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

sought to lay hands on him, they Matth. xxi, 46. But when they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

AND SOMETIMES TO IMPART HEALING OR SPIRITUAL OFFICE OR

GIFT.

Num. xxvii, 18. And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him.

Mark v, 23. And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: 1 pray thee come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

do no mighty work, save that he Mark vi, 5. And he could there laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

was setting, all they that had any Luke iv, 40. Now when the sun sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

Acts vi, 6. Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Acts viii, 17, 18. Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money.

Acts xiii, 3. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them

away.

Acts xix, 6. And when Paul had

laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they, spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Acts xxviii. 8. And it came to flux: to whom Paul entered in, lay sick of a fever and of a bloody pass, that the father of Publius and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

gift that is in thee, which was 1 Tim. iv, 14. Neglect not the de-given thee Ly prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Luke xxi, 12. But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, livering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

John vil, 30. Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

Acts iv, 3. And they laid hands unto the next day: for it was now on them, and put them in hold eventide.

seven days were almost ended, Acts xxi, 27. And when the the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him.

1 Tim. v, 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

TO LIFT UP OR SPREAD THE HANDS TO GOD, THE POSTURE OF PRAYER; TO LIFT UP ANOTHER'S HANDS IS TO COMFORT. to the king of Sodom, I have lift Gen. xiv, 22. And Abram said up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth.

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Ps. xxviii, 2. Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Ps. Ixlil, 4. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

Ps. cxix, 48. My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Pз. cxxxiv, 2. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Ps. cxli, 2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Lam. ii, 19. Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord. lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

1 Tim. ii, 8. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

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TO GIVE THE HAND IS THE TOKEN OF AMITY; TO JOIN HANDS, THAT OF COMBINATION. 2 Kings x, 15. And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

Prov. xi, 21. Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Prov. xvi, 5. Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination

to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Gal. il, 9. And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship.....

LEFT HAND OFTEN USED
IN IDIOMATIC EX-
PRESSIONS.

Gen. xxiv, 49. And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

Exod. xiv, 22. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Deut. xvii, 20. That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left."

Josh. 1, 7. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou to all the law, which Moses my mayest observe to do according servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

2 Sam. xiv, 19. And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with

thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine

handmaid.

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Job xxiii, 9. On the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

Prov. iii, 16. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

Çant. 11, 6. His left hand is undoth embrace me. der my head, and his right hand

Isa. liv, 3. For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Jonah iv, 11. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore

thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand: and also much cattle?

Zech. xii, 6. In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left......

Matth. vi, 3. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Matth. xx, 21. And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.

2 Cor. vi, 7. By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.

LEFT HANDED. children of Israel cried unto the Judges iii, 15. But when the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: sent a present unto Eglon the and by him the children of Israel king of Moab.

Judges xx, 16. Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

RIGHT HAND. to the nail, and her right hand to Judges v, 26. She put her hand the workmen's hammer, and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

THE SYMBOL OF POWER

AND SEAT OF HONOUR. 1 Kings ii, 19. Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.

Job xl, 14. Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

Ps. xvi, 8, 11. I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is there are pleasures for evermore. fulness of joy; at thy right hand

Ps. cx, 1. The LORD said unto

my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Eccles. x, 2. A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's

heart at his left.

Isa. Ixili, 12. That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm. . . . . .

Jer. xxii, 24. As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehofakim king of Judah were the

signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence.

Matth. v, 30. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee.....

Mark xiv, 62. And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds

of heaven.

Mark xvi, 19. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

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Mark vii, 33. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue.

John viii, 6. This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

John xx, 25. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

to you bandfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

Ruth ii, 16. And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke ber not:

1 Kings xvii, 12. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth. I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.....

sent unto him, and said, The gods 1 Kings xx, 10. And Ben-hadad do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

handful of corn in the earth upon Ps. lxxii, 16. There shall be an the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like

Lebanon.

Eccles. iv, 6. Better is an handActs vil, 55, 56. But he, being ans said unto Pharaoh, This is the hands full with travail and vexaExod. viii, 19. Then the magici- ful with quietness, than both the

finger of God.

full of the Holy Ghost, looked up
stedfastly into heaven, and saw
the glory of God, and Jesus stand- 1 Kings xii, 10. . . . Thus shalt
ing on the right hand of God, thou say unto them, My little
And said, Behold, I see the heav-finger shall be thicker than my

ens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

Çolos. ii, 1. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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P3. cxliv, 1. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to flight.

Prov. vii, 3. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

Isa. lviii, 9. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity.

Luke xi, 20. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

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BOSOM OR BREAST. Exod. iv, 6. And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

1 Kings iii, 20. And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Luke xviii, 13. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

Luke xxiii, 48. And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and re

turned.

John xill, 25. He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?

Jer. xxxii, 18. Thou showest loving-kindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the

Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name.

Luke vi, 38. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.

Luke xvi, 22, 23. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

BACK.

1 Sam. x, 9. And it was so, that, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

Ezek. viii, 16. And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

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P3. cxxix, 3. The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Prov. x, 13. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom Is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Isa. 1, 6. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting,

Jer. xvili, 17. I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Jer. xxxii, 33. And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive Instruction.

Bom. xi, 10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

LOINS

Gen. xxxvii, 34. And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Exod. xxviii, 42. And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.

1 Kings xii, 10. And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus little finger shall be thicker than shalt thou say unto them, My my father's loins.

said unto him, Behold now, we 1 Kings xx, 31. And his servants have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel, peradventure he will save thy life.

Dan. v, 6. countenance was changed, and his Then the king's thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

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Nahum ii, 1. Keep the thy loins strong, fortify thy power munition, watch the way, make mightily.

1 Peter 1, 13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

EXPRESSIVE OF LINEAGE
OR DESCENT.

Gen. xxxv, 11. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply: a nation, and a company of nations, shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Gen. xlvi, 26. All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six.

thou shalt not build the house; 1 Kings viil, 19. Nevertheless, but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name,

Acts ii, 30. Therefore being a

had sworn with an oath to him, that prophet, and knowing that God of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up

Christ to sit on his throne. Heb. vii, 5, 10. And verily they Ps. lxvi, 11. Thou broughtest us they that are of the sons of Levi, into the net; thou laidest afflic-who receive the office of the tion upon our loins.

Ps. lxix, 23. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

Isa. xxi, 3. Therefore are my loins filled with pain. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth. . . . .

Ezek. 1, 27. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it; from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

Ezek. vili, 2. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his from his loins, even upward, as the loins, even downward, fire; and colour of amber. appearance of brightness, as the

Ezek. xxi, 6. Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

Ezek. xlvii, 4. Again he measured a thousand and brought me

through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.

priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of

the loins of Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.

(See Girdle under Dress.)

RIBS.

Gen. ii, 21, 22. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

2 Sam. ii, 23. Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear that the spear came out behind smote him under the fifth rib; him.

smote him [Abner] there under 2 Sam. iii, 27. . . . . And [Joab] the fifth rib, that he died. . . . .

2 Sam. iv, 6. And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

2 Sam. xx, 10. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in

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2 Kings ix, 24. And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arins,

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Prov. vi, 18. An heart that viseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief.

Prov. xxiil, 7. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his

heart is not with thee.

Eccles. ix, 3. . . . . The heart of madness is in their heart while the sons of men is full of evil, and

Exod. xiv, 17. And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the

Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

Deut. ii, 30. But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass

and the arrow went out at his they live, and after that they go to by him: for the LORD thy God

heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

the dead.

Jer. vil, 24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Heart is, as with us, the favourite
symbol of sentiment of almost
every kind, examples of which
will be found more appropri-
ately under other heads and sub-
jects. We subjoin other pecul-nor

iarities.

HEART, THE SEAT OF EVIL.

Gen. vi, 5. And GoD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen. viii, 21. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Deut. xv, 9. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought, and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto

thee.

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inclined their ear, but walked Jer. xi, 8. Yet they obeyed not, every one in the imagination of their evil heart.

worse than your fathers; (for, beJer. xvi, 12. And ye have done hold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me.)

Jer. xvii, 9. The heart is deceit ful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Hosea iv, 8. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

Matth. xii, 35. A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things.

Matth. xv, 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

John xiii, 2. And supper being into the heart of Judas Iscariot, ended, (the devil having now put Simon's son, to betray him.)

Rom. ii. 5. But, after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Heb. iii, 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

2 Peter ii, 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with

hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

LORD to harden their hearts, that Josh. xi, 20. For it was of the they should come against Israel them utterly, and that they might in battle, that he might destroy have no favour, but that he might destroy them; as the LORD com. manded Moses.

1 Sam. vi, 6. Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had did they not let the people go, wrought wonderfully among them, and they departed?

2 Chron. xxxvi, 13. And he also rebelled against king Nebuchad nezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

heart, as in the provocation, and Ps. xcv, 8. Harden not your as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

Prov. xxviii, 14. Happy is the man that feareth alway: but ho that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

thou made us to err from thy Isa. Ixiii, 17. O LORD, why hast ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine

inheritance.

Ezek. iii, 7. But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

SPECIAL AND CHARACTERISTIC EPITHETS CONNECTED WITH HEART AS SEAT OF RELIGIOUS FEELING.

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