They are not influenced, as some of the older expositors perhaps were, by Ro 1018, where St. Paul quotes the LXX and applies the words to the world-wide proclamation of the gospel.
The only places in AV where saw is not tr4 ‘line’ are Is 4418 ‘(carpenter’s] rule,’ where, however, RV gives ‘line’; and 183. 7, where the Heb. 197) ‘3 is translated in AV ‘a nation meted out’ (lit. as AVm ‘a nation of line line’) ; the context demands rather the active meaning ‘that meteth out,’ as RV (which, however, retains AV in marg.). Cheyne (Expos. 3rd ser. vi. 455) criticizes AV as impossible and RV as barely possible. His own rendering is ‘the strong strong nation’ (in SBOT ‘a nation of sinewy strength’), which is got by changing the MT into 2}, a subst. formed after Arab. kuwwa, ‘strength’; and with that Skinner agrees. Ges. (Thes. s.v.) had suggested a distinct subst. τ, and tr? ‘ gens robustissima, pr. roboris roboris,’ after the Arab. ; Buhl in the latest ed. (1899) of the Hand- worterbuch adopts 2p sehnige Kraft with some hesitation.
2. For San, see Corp. In Ps 16% ‘The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places,’ the reference is to the portion marked off by the line or measuring cord. In Jos 17° the word is tr. ‘ portions,’ ‘ And there fell ten portions to Manasseh’ (RV ‘parts,’ RVm ‘lines’). 3, in is tr. ‘line’ only in 1 Καὶ 7", ‘a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them [the pillars] about.’ See BAND. 4. For Sn» (only Ezk 40%) see LACE. 5. mpn Jos 218:31 the line of searlet thread which Rahab bound in the window. It is Coverdale’s word here, who has ‘ excepte thou knyttest in the wyndowe the lyne of this rose- coloured rope’... ‘And she knyt the rose coloured lyne in the wyndowe.’ 6. τὴν, in Is 4438 sered, is mm AV mistranslated ‘line,’ RV gives ‘pencil,’ RVm ‘red ochre.” See PENCIL.
In NT we have only 2Co 10" ‘not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand’ (ἐν ἀλλοτρίῳ κανόνι, AVm ‘rule,’ RV ‘in another's province,’ RVm ‘Or limit, Gr. measuring
LINEN
The AV tr. is from the Gen. Bible, which
rod’), explains it by saying, ‘God gave the whole worlde to the Apostles to preache in, so that Paul here meaneth by the line his porcion of the countre is
where he preached.’ J. HASTINGS. LINEAGE.—Lk 2‘ only, ‘he was of the house and lineage of David’ (ἐξ οἴκου καὶ πατριᾶς, RV ‘ of the house and family’). Spenser uses the word in the same sense, FQ I. i. 5— “So pure and innocent, as that same lambe,
She was in life and every vertuous lore, And by descent from royall lynage came.’
Cf. also Nut-Brown Maid (in Skeat’s Specimens, p. 107)—
* Ye shal not nede further to drede, I wyl not disparage You, god defende, sith ye descende of so grete a lynage.’
Wyclif uses the word in the wider sense of kin- dred or tribe, as Ps 72!” ‘And all the lynagis of earthe schulen be blessid in hym’; 78 ‘he chees not the lynage of Effraym. But he chees the lynage of Juda’; Rev 5° ‘a lioun of the lynage of Juda. J. HASTINGS.
LINEN.—The manufacture of linen is an ex- tremely ancient art. The Egyptians attained ῬΓΟΠθλοπον, in it αὖ ἃ very early time. To them
liny ascribes the invention of weaving (vii. 56), and the honour is given by Athenzeus to Pathymias the Egyptian (lid. ii.). Linen-weaving became a profitable calling, providing occupation for large numbers, Strabo (xvii. 41, p. 813) says that Panopolis, or Chemmis, was inhabited by linen- weavers. Judging by the representations that have been preserved, the implements used must have been comparatively rude; but cloth of very fine quality was produced with them. So delicate indeed were certain fabrics that they were described as ‘woven air.’ Specimens of Egyptian work in the form of corselets are mentioned by Herodotus (ii. 182, iii. 47), one dedicated by Amasis to Minerva in Lindus, the other sent by him to the Lacedzemonians, ‘made of linen, with many figures of animals inwrought and adorned with gold and cotton wool’; and he notes that ‘each thread, though very fine, contained 360 threads all dis- tinct.’ Egyptian fine linen, yarn, and embroidered work were widely prized, and reckoned superior to those of any other Sout Four qualities of Egyptian linen are specified by Pliny (xix. ¢. 1), viz. Tanitic, Pelusiac, Butine, and Tentyritic. A large export trade was carried on to Arabia and India.
The Egyptian priests wore linen clothes, and according to Herodotus (ii. 37) were ποὺ allowed to wear anything else. But Pliny (xix. 8) says that although they used linen they preferred cotton robes; and the Rosetta Stone mentions ‘cotton garments’ provided for the use of the temples. It is most probable that the undergarments were always οἱ linen, while robes of cotton worn over them would have to be left outside the temples. Linen was regarded as fresh and cool in a hot climate, with a tendency to keep the body clean. This, with the religious prejudice requiring linen only to be worn in the temples, may account for the belief that the priests were prohibited from ever wearing anything else. When the worship of Isis was introduced into Greece and Rome (Plut. de Is. v. 3) tlie same customs as to priestly dress were adopted (Wilk. Anc. Eqyp. iii. 117).