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designates the divine nature.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>SPIRIT, HOLY See HOLY GHOST.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>SPONGE occurs only in the narrative of the crucifixion (Matthew 27:48;
Mark 15:36; John 19:29). It is ranked as a zoophyte. It is found attached
to rocks at the bottom of the sea.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>SPOUSE (Cant. 4:8-12; Hos. 4:13, 14) may denote either husband or
wife, but in the Scriptures it denotes only the latter.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>SPRING (Hebrews ?ain, ?the bright open source, the eye of the
landscape?). To be carefully distinguished from ?well? (q.v.). ?Springs?
mentioned in Joshua 10:40 (Hebrews ?ashdoth) should rather be
?declivities? or ?slopes? (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between
the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.
Another Bible Timeline fact –>STACHYS spike; an ear of corn, a convert at Rome whom Paul salutes
(Romans 16:9).
Another Bible Timeline fact –>STACTE (Hebrews nataph), one of the components of the perfume which
was offered on the golden altar (Exodus 30:34; R.V. marg.,
?opobalsamum?). The Hebrew word is from a root meaning ?to distil,? and
it has been by some interpreted as distilled myrrh. Others regard it as the
gum of the storax tree, or rather shrub, the Styrax officinale. ?The Syrians
value this gum highly, and use it medicinally as an emulcent in pectoral
complaints, and also in perfumery.?
Another Bible Timeline fact –>STARGAZERS (Isaiah 47:13), those who pretend to tell what will occur
by looking upon the stars. The Chaldean astrologers ?divined by the rising
and setting, the motions, aspects, colour, degree of light, etc., of the stars.?
Another Bible Timeline fact –>STAR, MORNING a name figuratively given to Christ (Revelation 22:16;
comp. 2 Peter 1:19). When Christ promises that he will give the ?morning
star? to his faithful ones, he ?promises that he will give to them himself,
that he will give to th
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