The flame of such bonfires has been known to stream in a flash
150ft. out."
[20] Dr. Julian (_Diet. Hymnol._ p. 134) has the following strange
sentence as to _Benedicite_, " It is not in the Hebrew version (_sic_)
of the Scriptures, and on this ground, among others, it is omitted from
A.V."
[21] G. Jahn _in loc._ thinks this fact an indication of a later hand,
as shewing that they severed themselves in the furnace from contact with
heathenism, and were giving themselves to intercourse with Jahwe alone.
But surely an interpolator must have been aware that this was their
attitude from the outset.
[22] _Proc. Sac. Bibl. Arch?¦ol._ 1895, p. 80.
[23] In the Hebrew of this verse the parallel is less striking.
[24] ??‘???·????„?±??, v. 23 (46), attendants probably holding some official
position superior to that of slaves. _Cf._ St. John xviii. 18.
[25] _Cf._ Ps. lxxiv. 9.
[26] See also H.J. Rose's Paper _On the Heb. coins called shekels_,
Beds. Architect. Soc. Rep. I., p. 367, 1851.
[27] In the _Bk. of private Prayer_ (Lond.
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