Bible Lands Electronic Resource Their Modern Customs And Manners Illustrative
Bible Lands Electronic Resource Their Modern Customs And Manners Illustrative
Henry J Henry John Van Lennep
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, that his land would abound in the olive, whose oil * Thomson, "The Laiul niul tlic Book, " vol. I. , p. 523. T Dent, xxxiii. , 24. VINEYARDS. — THE GRAPE AND THE OLIVE. 131 he should obtain by treading with his feet. * The Hebrew word translated "honey" in the latter passage is debesh, which, as we have shown, corresponds to the Arabic dihs^ meaning grape-juice sirup; so that the parallelism in this verse is com- plete. In stone presses are trodden the grapes and the olives, and the rock thus... yields in the one case " oil, " and in the other grape-juice, or "dibs. " The oil having been obtained in the manner above described, is put up in skin bottles, or stored in large, glazed earthen jars buried in the ground. Rows of such jars may be seen in sev- eral shops of the city of Pompeii impregnated with the oil they once contained. The visitor is forcibly reminded of the jars, identical in form, which stand precisely in the same manner in the shops of Eastern oil merchants. We have already spoken of the olive as an article of food.
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