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Footnotes:

1 To be considered later. See chap. iv.

2 1 Kings i. 3.

3 i. 9.

4 iv. 9.

5 viii. 6, 7.

6 1 Kings xi. 3.

7 vi. 4.

8 1 Kings xiv. 17.

9 1 Kings xvi. 18, 23, 24.

10 vi. 13.

11 ii. 1.

12 iv. 1.

13 i. 14.

14 iii. 9; iv. 8, 15; vii. 4.

15 iv. 8.

16 See Ency. Brit., Art. “Canticles,” by Robertson Smith.

17 i. 2.

18 i. 3.

19 i. 4.

20 i. 5.

21 i. 6.

22 See viii. 12.

23 i. 9—ii. 6.

24 i. 15.

25 i. 16, 17.

26 ii. 1.

27 ii. 2.

28 ii. 3.

29 ii. 4.

30 ii. 5.

31 ii. 6.

32 ii. 7.

33 See Gen. xxx. 14.

34 ii. 14.

35 ii. 9.

36 ii. 11-13.

37 ii. 15.

38 ii. 16.

39 ii. 17.

40 iii. 1-4.

41 iii. 5.

42 iii. 6-11.

43 iv. 6.

44 iv. 8-15.

45 iv. 16.

46 v. 1.

47 v. 2-7.

48 v. 8.

49 v. 9.

50 v. 10-16.

51 vi. 1.

52 vi. 2.

53 vi. 3.

54 Page 20.

55 vi. 4-7.

56 vi. 8, 9.

57 vi. 10.

58 Vers. 11, 12.

59 vi. 13. This is obscured in the Authorised Version.

60 vii. 1-9.

61 vii 1.

62 vii. 10.

63 vii. 11-13.

64 viii. 11.

65 viii. 1.

66 viii. 1.

67 viii. 2.

68 viii. 2.

69 viii. 3.

70 viii. 4.

71 viii. 5.

72 viii. 6, 7.

73 viii. 11.

74 i. 6.

75 viii. 12.

76 viii. 13.

77 viii. 14.

78 E.g. Exod. xxxiv. 15, 16; Numb. xv. 39; Psalm lxxiii. 27; Ezek. xvi. 23, etc.

79 E.g. Jer. iii. 1-11.

80 Hosea ii. 2.; iii. 3.

81 John iii. 29.

82 Mark. ii. 19.

83 Matt. xxii. 1-14.

84 Eph. v. 22-33.

85 Rev. xxi. 9.

86 Gen. xxix. 20.

87 i. 6.

88 iii. 22.

89 Amos v. 2.

90 Isa. xiv. 4 ff.

91 E.g., Psalms ix., x., xxv., xxxiv., xxxvii., cxix., cxlv.

92 Jer. viii. 18.

93 Jer. ix. 1.

94 iv. 17.

95 iv. 20.

96 Jer. lii. 2, 3.

97 ii. 9.

98 E.g. Jer. xlii. 7.

99 ii. 20.

100 ii. 14.

101 E.g. Ezek. xii. 24, xiii. 6, 7, xxii. 28.

102 Lam. ii. 15.

103 Ezek. xxvii. 3, xxviii. 12.

104 See Jer. xxvi. 24, xxix. 3ff, xl. 5.

105 ע and פ.

106 v. 20.

107 Neh. ii. 3.

108 i. 1-11.

109 i. 12-22.

110 i. 2.

111 Jer. xxxix. 4, 5.

112 Isa. i. 10-17.

113 Dan. xi. 31.

114 Mark xiii. 14.

115 i. 12.

116 Luke xxiii. 28.

117 i. 13.

118 i. 13.

119 Ibid.

120 i. 14.

121 i. 15.

122 i. 16.

123 i. 17.

124 i. 18.

125 i. 18.

126 i. 18, 19.

127 i. 20-2.

128 i. 9, 11.

129 i. 21.

130 See i. 2, 9, 16, 17, 21.

131 i. 16.

132 Mark xv. 34.

133 ii. 1.

134 ii. 1.

135 Matt. xi. 23.

136 ii. 2.

137 ii. 4.

138 ii. 6.

139 ii. 7.

140 Psalm vii. 11.

141 Matt. x. 34.

142 Heb. xii. 29.

143 ii. 9.

144 See next chapter.

[145] ii. 10.

146 ii. 11, 12.

147 Luke xiii 1-5.

148 ii. 15.

149 ii. 16.

150 ii. 17.

151 Luke xiii. 20.

152 ii. 13.

153 See Jer. xlii. 4, 7.

154 See 1 Sam. iii. 1.

155 Isa. xlii. 1.

156 ii. 14.

157 Numb. xxiv. 13.

158 ii. 14.

159 Psalm vi. 6.

160 Psalm xxii. 14.

161 St. Paul, by Frederick Myers.

162 Heb. v. 8, 9.

163 iii. 2.

164 iii. 3.

165 iii. 4.

166 The Authorised Version has “travel,” a mere variation in spelling. The word means painful labour, toil.

167 iii. 4.

168 iii. 6.

169 iii. 7.

170 iii. 8.

171 iii. 9.

172 iii. 10.

173 iii. 11.

174 iii. 12.

175 iii. 13.

176 iii. 14.

177 iii. 15.

178 iii. 16.

179 iii. 17.

180 iii. 18.

181 iii. 21.

182 iii. 40-8.

183 Heb. ii. 18, iv. 15.

184 Heb. ii. 18, iv. 15.

185 Prov. viii. 17.

186 Jer. xiv. 21.

187 Psalm lxxiii. 26.

188 iii. 26.

189 Matt. v. 45.

190 vii. 7, 8.

191 James iv. 2.

192 iii. 27.

193 iii. 29.

194 iii. 30.

195 iii. 31, 32

196 iii. 33.

197 iii. 34-6.

198 Gen. xviii. 25.

199 iii. 32.

200 Wisdom ii. 23 ff.

201 Rev. xii. 9.

202 Job i. 6-12, ii. 1-7.

203 Zech. iii. 1, 2.

204 1 Chron. xxi. 1.

205 Luke xiii. 16.

206 2 Cor. xii. 7.

207 1 Thess. ii. 18.

208 Rom. vi. 23.

209 iii. 39.

210 Isa. lxiii. 9.

211 Luke xv. 21.

212 1 John i. 9.

213 iii. 44.

214 iii. 45.

215 iii. 46.

216 iii. 47.

217 iii. 48 ff.

218 iii. 51.

219 iii. 48.

220 iii. 52 ff.

221 Jer. xxxviii. 6.

222 iii. 50.

223 iii. 57.

224 Psalm xxxiv. 6.

225 Gen. xv. 1.

226 Isa. xli. 14.

227 Mark vi. 50.

228 John xiv. 27.

229 Rev. i. 17, 18.

230 iii. 58.

231 iii. 59.

232 iii. 60-3.

233 iii. 65.

234 2 Kings xxv. 9.

235 iv. 1.

236 iv. 2.

237 iv. 7.

238 iv. 3.

239 iv. 4.

240 iv. 5.

241 iv. 6.

242 iv. 7.

243 iv. 7. “Hair,” According to a slight emendation of the text recommended by recent criticism.

244 iv. 8.

245 So perhaps we should understand ver. 9, applying the last clause to the fallen warriors. In the Revised Version, however, rendered so as to refer to the famished people who pine away for lack of the fruits of the earth. Yet another rendering is “fade away... like the growth of the fields.”

246 iv. 10.

247 iv. 11.

248 Heb. xii. 29.

249 Matt. iii. 12.

250 iv. 12.

251 ii. 9, 14.

252 Jer. vi. 13; viii. 10; xxiii. 11, 14; xxvi. 7 ff.

253 Jer. vi. 14; viii. 11.

254 Ezek. iii. 16-21.

255 Lev. xiii. 45.

256 Isa. xxxvi. 6.

257 Jer. xxxvii. 7, 8.

258 Heb. iv. 9.

259 iv. 18.

260 Jer. iv. 13

261 2 Kings xxv. 4, 5; Jer. xxxix. 4, 5.

262 iv. 20.

263 Ezek. xxv. 12-14.

264 Page 269.

265 iii. 39.

266 ii. 17.

267 Isa. liii. 4-6.

268 Rom. ii. 4.

269 Acts v. 31.

270 For example, Jer. xiv. 7.

271 John xiv. 18.

272 v. 4.

273 v. 5.

274 v. 6.

275 1 Peter ii. 24.

276 Page 151.

277 Heb. ii. 10.

278 Ezek. xviii. 3, 4.

279 v. 8.

280 v. 9.

281 v. 10.

282 Psalm lxxiii. 17.

283 Lam. iii. 65.

284 v. 13.

285 v. 14.

286 v. 15, 16.

287 v. 16.

288 Jer. xvii. 9.

289 1 John i. 9.

290 James v. 16.

291 1 Peter iv. 8.

292 Rom. xiv. 4.

293 v. 17.

294 ver. 18

295 Heb. xii. 27.