BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSIBX IIsrSTIT'TJTE. 



Vol. 2. Salem, Mass., January, 1870. No. 1. 



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AN ABSTEACT OF REMARKS UPON THE 

 PLANTS OF SCRIPTURE. 



BY GEORGE D. I'HIPPEN, 



The lectures, of which this was a condensation, were 

 prepared for an entirely different purpose than presenta- 

 tion before a scientific association. There is much greater 

 obscurity in our version regarding these plants, than would 

 be the case were a new one now made which should in- 

 clude a better knowledge of the productions of Pales- 

 tine and the neighboring countries, than was then pos- 

 sessed. The copiousness of allusions to the vegetable 

 kingdom, throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, impresses 

 with an interest, amounting to astonishment, all those 

 whose attention has been called to the subject. 



A large portion of the rich and glowing passages, from 

 both the greater and lesser prophets, that have chimed 

 their measured cadences into our ears from earliest child- 

 hood, are of this class, examples of which are here cited. 

 So marked is this quality of Hebrew poetry, as seen in 

 the Bible, that it was declared, by a learned man of the 

 last century, to be botanical poetry, and who states that 

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