5. The following phrases are mostly bihlical : (1) Set one's hand to, I)t 23=" 'In all that thou settest thine hand to' (RV 'puttest thine hand unto '), 28". Cf. Ac 12' Rhem. • And at the same time Herod the king set his handes, to afflicto certaine of the Church.' (2) Set one's heart to, Ex 7" 'Neither did he set his heart to this also' (RV 'lay even this to heart,' RVm 'ifeb. set his heart even to this ') ; Dt 'A2^ ' Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day'; 1 Ch 22'" ' Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God'; Job 7" ' What is man . . , that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him ? ' ; Ps 78' ' A generation that set not their heart aright'; Jer 31" 'Set thine heart toward the highway ' ; Dn 6'* ' Then the king ... set hia heart on Daniel to deliver him.' Cf. 1 Ch 29" 'I have set my affection to the house of my God.' (3) Set one's face. This is one of the many Hebraisms in which the * face ' plays its part. It has two meanings : (a) Turn toward.i unth a purpose or resolution, determine, Nu 24' 'Rut he set liis face toward the wilderness ' ; 2 K 12" ' And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem'; Ezk 21" 'Go thee one way or other . . . whitherso- ever thy face is set'; Jer 42" ' If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt,' 42'' ; Lk 9" ' He stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem ' (rd Tpdffuvoy irrtipiatr). (b) To take up an antagonistic position, Lv 17'° ' I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood,' 20» »• » ; Jer 21'» ' 1' or I have sot my face against this city for evil ' ; Ezk 6' ' Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,' 13" 15' 20« 21" 25" 28"' 29" 35" 38". (4) To set eyrs on, Ac 13*, is not as now ' to catch a glimpse of,' but to 'fix one's eyes upon ' : ' Then Saul (who is also called Paul), filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him ' (irtriaat tit ainir, KV ' fastened his eyes on him ').
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6. Tlie verb to ' set' is used with certain adverl)S in a SMiise that is antiquated or Hebraistic: (1) Set at, that is, 'valued at,' 2 K 12^ 'The money that every man is set at' (RV 'the money of the persons for whom each man is rated,' RVm ' Ilcb. eacli man the money of tlie souls of his estima- tion'). Cf. Lv Ti^ Tind. ' Yf any man will geve a eyngoler vowe unto the Lorde acordynge to the value of his soule, then shall the male from xx. yere unto Ix. be set at fyftie sycles of sjlver ' ; and Shaks. Hamlet, I. iv. C" — ' I do not set my life at a pin's fee.' (2) Set at nought, i.e. despise, treat with contempt or mockery, Pr 1^ 'But ye have set at nought all my counsel," Mk 9", Lk 23", Ac 4" lO'", Ro U'". (3) Set by, i.e. esteem, 2 Mac 4" ' Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the [Grecians] best of all ' (in oidei/i TiUiij.ei'Oi, RV ' making of no account '). Cf. Ps 15* Pr. BU. ' He that setteth not by hym selfe, but maketh moche of them that fear the Lorde' ; Ridley, Works, 27, 'Lest I should seem to set by mine own conceit, more than is meet'; Babees Book, p. 72—
• He that good mannere seemes to Iftck, No wyse man doth set by ; Wythout condicions vertuoiis. Thou art not worth a tlye.'
So set much by, 1 S IS™ ' His name was mach set by,' 26="'» : cf. 1 P 3* Tind. ' With a meke and a quyet sprete, wiiich sprete is before God a thinge moche set by.' So also set little by or set light by, Dt 27" ' Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother'; Ezk 22', Jth 11'^. Cf. Jer 50'- Cov. ' She shall be the least set by amonge the nacions ' ; Tindale, Expos, p. 229, ' Called the least, that is to say, shall be little set by and des])ised : called great, that is to say, shall be mucli set by and had in reverence.' Even set at light is found iu the margin of 2 S 19"^. Cf. Fisher, A S/iiritual Consolation (in Morley's .Eni/. Religion, p. 140), 'Such as we set but at light, full greatly shall be weighed in the presence of his most high Majesty'; Knox, Hist. 49, 'Perchance this hand of Godl will make them now to magnifie and reverence that word which before (for the fear of men) they set at light price.' (i) Set forth. This phrase has various meanings : (a) Begin a journey, Nu 2» ' These shall first set forth' ; Ac 2P 'We went aboard, and set forth' (df^x"'?/^"' . RV 'get sail'). Cf. Bunyan, Boly War, 68, 'The time, therefore, of his setting forth being now ejipired, he addressed himself for his march'; Melvill, Diary, 172, ' Sa, parting from Berwik, hartlie recommendit to the blessing and grace of God, be manie godlie men and women, and be sum sett and convoyet a guid way on our jorney, wo cam that night to Anweik.' (b) Bring forward or cause to be seen, Ps 141' ' Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense' (psp, LXX KaTtvdm$-iiTti), Vulg. dirigatur) ; Ezk 27^° ' They hanged the shield and helmet in thee ; they set fortli thy comeliness ' ("03, LXX (buKav); Dn 11"" 'And he shall set forth a great multitude' (Tc^ni) ; Am 8" 'When will tlie new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? ' (i:-.nrinr)i, AVm and RVm ' open ') ; Lk 1' ' To set forth in order a declaration of those things' (draTaf- aaSai) ; Ro V' ' Whom God hath set forth to be a projiitiation ' (ii> Trpoidero o Seit, AVm ' foreordained,' RVm ' purposed ') ; 1 Co 4"' For I think that God hath set fortii us the apostles last' {iviSciiev) ; Gal 3' ' Before whose eyes Jesus Christ bath been evidently set forth ' {wpoeypdpri, RV ' was openly set forth ') ; Jude ' ' Even as Sodom and Gomorrha . . . are eet forth for an example' {■rpiKeti'Tai Se'iyij.a). Cf. Pr. Bk. Exhort, to Confession, ' When we assemble and meet together ... to