The other antithesis is when the apostle takes νοῦς for deliberate, reflective consciousness—its proper sense—and contrasts it with πνεῦμα in the sense of afflatus or unconscious impulse coming from without or above (1 Co 14-12%), See, further, next art. and PSYCHOLOGY.
J. LAIDLAW.
MIND.—The verb to ‘mind’ is both trans. and intrans. Asa trans. verb it means to ‘ give atten- tion to,’ Ro 8° ‘They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh’ (φρονοῦσιν) ; 1238 ‘Mind not high things’ (μὴ τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονοῦντες, RV ‘Set not your mind on high things’); Ph 315 ‘Let us mind the same thing’ (τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν) ; 3 ‘Who mind earthly things’ (οἱ τὰ ἐπίγεια φρονοῦντες). Intransitively it means to purpose, intend, Ac 201 ‘for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot’ (μέλλων). Cf. Pr. Bk. ‘Ye that mind to come to the holy Communion’; Golding’s Calvin's Job, 562, ‘ Althoughe they protest that they minde to justifie him... yet neverthelesse they con- demne him’; and Lk 14% Rhem. ‘For, which of you minding to build a toure, doth not first sit downe and recken the charges that are necessarie ?”
The phrase ‘ to be minded’ has the same meaning as the intrans. verb ‘to mind,’ as Ku 118 ‘ When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her’ ; 2 Ch 244 ‘ And it came to pass after this that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD’; Ac 27 ‘They discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship’ (TR ἐβουλεύσαντο, edd. ἐβουλεύοντο, RV ‘they took counsel’); Ph 3% ‘Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : andif in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you’ (φρονῶμεν, καὶ εἴ τι ἑτέρως φρονεῖτε). 3
There are many phrases of which the ptep. ‘minded’ forms a part: ‘carnally minded’ (7d φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός, RV ‘the mind of the flesh’) Ro 8°, and in the same verse ‘spiritually minded’ (τὸ φρόνημα τοῦ πνεύματος, RV ‘the mind of the spirit ’) ; ‘double minded’ (δίψυχοε) Ja 18 4°; ‘ feeble minded’ (ὀλιγόψυχος, RV ‘fainthearted’) 1 Th 5; ‘highminded’ (ὑψηλοφρονεῖν, edd. ὑψηλὰ φρονεῖν, ‘be highminded’) Ro 11”, 1 Ti 67 (τετυφωμένος, RV ‘puffed up’), 2 Ti 34; ‘light minded’ (κοῦφος καρδίᾳ) Sir 19‘; ‘likeminded’ (τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν, RV ‘to be of the same mind’) Ro 155, Ph 2? (ἰσόψυχος), Ph 2”; ‘sober minded’ (σωφρονεῖν) Tit 2%.
J. HASTINGS.
MINES, MINING.—We are here concerned with this subject only so far as it relates to Bible history and Bible lands. Mines are but once referred to in OT, and for the reason that in Palestine proper they are unknown. In the Sinaitic peninsula it is otherwise. The remark- able passage in the Bk of Job (28'"), in which the process of mining and the miner’s life are eeuiieaiig described, must have been written by one who had a personal knowledge of the subject. Egypt and Arabia Petraea probably furnished to the writer the details on which the poem is founded. We shall take the passage as given in RV, with some notes from the Speaker's Com- mentary—
L ‘Surely there is a mine (vein AV) for the silver, and a place
MINES, MINING
tor gold which they refine.’ Two processes were known to the ancienis—one by washing, described by Diodorus (iv. 2), as practised in Egypt; the other by smelting. The word here denotes the former.
2. ‘Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass (copper) is molten out of the stone.’
8. ‘Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.’ The miner lets in light to the very abode of dark- ness (in the mine or shaft) by means of the lantern.
4. ‘He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn ; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by : they hang afar; they swing oe flit) to and fro.’ This passage is also rendered in the margin, ‘the flood breaketh out from where men sojourn,’ suggestive of the sudden outburst of pent-up waters in the mine when a fissure is broken open: and after the waters are escaped ‘ they are minished, and gone away from man.’. . .
7. ‘That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it; the proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.’ The mine is a path which none but man can discern. The ingenuity of man is contrasted with the instinctive sagacity of animals.
9. ‘He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock : he over- turneth the mountains by the roots’; apparently referring to blasting. Pliny describes various processes (ΝῊ xxxiii. 21).
10. fie cutteth out channels’ ( i, Pliny) ‘among the rocks ; and his eye seeth every pees thing.’ Channels to drain the mine, while he carefully scans the mineral vein for traces of ore.
11. ‘He bindeth the streams that they trickle not, and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.’ Descriptive of the alternative process to that in v.10 of damming up the waters in the river while the miner digs out the auriferous alluvial gravel—a process described by Pliny (ΝῊ xxxiii. 21).