Collated with parallel Passages of the Hebrew Scriptures. 49 



The Punic and Libyan Phraseology respecting Federal and Common Hospi- 

 tality collated With that of the Hebrew Scriptures. 



The principal term used to express Federal hospitality in Scripture is p'?n» 

 (the Punic elech, Libyan ilec and ileach,) consortium, fellowship, mutual con- 

 nexion. And the expression or, if we may so speak, symbol for hospitable 

 entertainment and accommodation, is r\^'2, dotmis hospitium, house, (the beth 

 and buth of the Punic and Libyan.) 



Divertite in domum j^\^ ^n is the phrase used by Lot to the angels as equi- 

 valent to " accept hospitality," Gen. xix. 2. And the being granted an house, 

 •innD JTi^j the expression used by Hanno, is exactly the phrase used to express 

 the hospitality granted to Hadad by the King of Egypt, dedit ei domum et 

 cibum,Sfc. an*?! )l*':i i^ ]T\'^ — 1 Kings, xi. 18.* 



In reference to i^e^/era/ hospitality, (of a spiritual and sacramental kind,) we 

 have in 2 Corinthians, vi. 14, 15, a vocabulary or synonymy of Scriptural ex- 

 pressions such as those that follow : consortium, communio, societas, partici- 

 patio, pars, — " what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ?" This last 

 expression of the Apostle had also been previously used by our Lord himself 

 with like reference to the sacramental or federal hospitality of the Eucharist, 

 John, xiii. 8, " If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me." Now the word 

 part in both these instances is the word for which the Libyan and Punic ilech, 

 or ^elech, is the equivalent, and as such is used in the Hebrew versions of the 

 New Testament. 



As to the phrase " to me with him," we find, among other places, the 

 parallel expression in Hosea, ii. 18, " A covenant to them with the beasts of the 

 field, &c." ay an^ ; (a passage which Jerome explains as the type of St. Peter's 

 vision respecting the admission of the Gentiles to federal connexion with the 

 Jews, in the same mystical company and sacramental fellowship. — Acts, x. 9-) 



And with respect to |y*t, i'n, because, it occurs in Isaiah, Ix. " The spirit of 

 the Lord is upon me, because |y»i he hath anointed me." 



* Respecting the Libyan expression for hospitable entertainment, comiLcro, &c. see Recapitula- 

 tion and Revisal. 



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