In 2 Ch 2 '""'""« 'stull' means 'materials' for building. Cf. Erasmu-s, Credc, 39, ' Certayne men . . . have taught that he dotli create wliicth doth brynge fortlie and make somewhat of nothyiige, which belongeth onely to God, and that he doth make which liameth or sliapeth ony thing of some niatere or stulle'; Ex 39° Tind. 'And tlie brod- rynge of the girdel that was upon it was of the same stuti'e and after the same worke of gold.'
J. Hastings.
STUMBLING BLOCK The word 'block' was
formerly used of a lump of wood, stone, or the like, in one's way, and was then applied fig. to any obstruction. Thus Payne, Jioml Exch. 38, 'At which common block nian3' weakelings do stumble.' The expression exists now only in the compound ' stumbling-block,' and only the compound is found in AV.
The words so tr" are in Heb.: (1) miksMl (Lv 1914, i, 67i«, Jer 6-1, Ezk 320 71a 143. 4 •) ; and (2) makshflah (Zeph IS). The Gr. wolds are: (1) Tfcriuu./^ (Sir 3«'i', Uo 14l», 1 Co 8»); (2) t[.A*» n^oirxbfi.f^M.TK (Sir 317) ; and (3) cxa.yloi.>ja^ (Wis 14", Sir 78, Ro 11", 1 Co la. Rev 214). See Ofi-e.sce, vol. iii. p. 68«».
In the same way stumblingstone is used in Ro 9^'' '^ {XWo'i TrpoffKbiMfiaTOi), for which RV gives ' stone of stumbling,' the AV expression for the same Gr. in 1 P 2". ' Stone of stumbling ' occurs also in Is 8" for eben ne</eph, the latter word meaning lit. 'plague,' 'stroke' (see Strike, Stroke).
J. Hastings.
SUA (15 Zovi, A Zovai, AV Sud), 1 Es 5»=Siaha, Ezr •-'« ; Sia, Neh 7".
SUAH (o'o; B Xoux'i A and Luc. 2oC«).— An Asherite, 1 Ch 1".
SUBAI (S.jSofO, 1 Es 6'°=Shamlai, Ezr 2*«; Sal mai, Neh 7'".
SUBAS {Zovfiit, AV Suba), 1 Es 6»*.— His sons were among the sons of Solomon's servants who returned with Zerubbabel. There is no correspond- ing name in the lists of Ezr 2, Neh 7.
SUCATHITE8 (tj-njib ; B i:uxa*'«'/«. A IwKaeulii, Luc. -ovxaOtipi). — A family of scribes that dwelt at Jabez, 1 Ch 2". See Shimeathites, and cf. Genealogy, iv. 39, and Wellh. de Gentibus, 30 H'.
SUCCEED, SUCCESS. — To succeed (Lat. sue- cederc, from sub, next, and ccdere, to go ; Kr. sue * Oo Ezekiel'B ' block-gods ' see Davidson's note to 6<
626
SUCCOTH
SUCCOTII-BEXOTH
cider) is simply to follow ; and success (Lat. successus. Old Fr. succes) is that which follows. Thus, Shaks. // Henry VI. II. iv. 2— * Aft«r summer evermore succeeds Barren winter';
Tjinrae, Calvin's Genesis, 785, 'This verily was rare honour, to be tolde of the event, and successe to come of fourteene yeares ' — in reference to the interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams. In modern Eng. when the reference is to the result of an enterprise, ' succeed ' and ' success ' denote pro- sperity, but in older Eng. the nature of the result was not contained in the words themselves, but had to be indicated by an adv. or adjective.
Succeed : In Sir 4$^ the verb occurs in it« simple sense, and the prep, is expressed, ' Who anointedst kin^ to take revenge, and prophet* to succeed after him' (3ja3e,:[:ouf [mi-t «(>«*). We still say ' follow after,' but not 'succeed after.' The nature of the result is expressed by an adv. in To 46 * I( thou deal truly, thy doin^^ shall prosperously succeed to thee ' {i\joltou Itra^Tott iv Vorf i^foif ffo'j). Cf. Shaks. Lear, i. ii. 167, 'The effects he writes of succeed unhappily.'
Success: It was possible in 1611 to use * success' in a good sense ; • it occurs so once in AV, 2 Mac 1028 < Por a pledge of their success and victory ' {iyytity t'Jr.fupiet^ juci rlzr,i). So Fuller, Uotu State, 25S, 'God causeth sometimes the sunne of successe to shine as weU on bad as good projects.* But elsewhere in AV an adj. is used, either ' good ' (Jos !», 1 S isho'Jing, To 712, wis 1319, Sir 209 3S13, 1 Mac 4=5 8^3, 2 Mac 1023 13I6) or ' prosperous' (Sir 4326). Cf. Fuller, flo(j/ State, 109, ' God mouldeth some for a scholemaster's life, undertaking it with desire and delight and discharging it with dexterity and iiappy successe.' On the other hand. Hot}/ State, 79, ' Sorrow-struck with some sad signe of ill- successe ' ; and Milton, PR iv. 1 —
' Perplexed and troubled at his bad success. The tempter stood.'
J. Hastings. SDCCOTH 1. (niDD) A place so called accord- ing to Gn 33" because of the booths (Heb. sukk6th) which Jacob made there for his cattle. In the Heb. text of this verse s\ikk6th occurs three times and is rendered ' Succoth ' — ' booths ' — ' Succoth ' in AV and RV. The LXX by using aK-qval three times makes clear the identity of Succoth with booths, which has to be explained in the margin of AV and KV, but conveys the impression that the name of Succoth was then '^KT)val. Josephus (Ant. I. xxi. 1) states that the place was so called in his time ; but this name would not have been given before the period of Greek supremacy. The Targ. and Syr. preserve the proper name Succoth, but in place of the second sukhJth (tr. 'bootlis' in EV) use ]hno, n^'?od, words which in a moditied form are employed as equivalents for 'tabernacles' and ' bootlis ' in Lv 23*'- ** and other places where reference is made to the Feast of Tabernacles. The Vulgate explain.s ' Socoth, id est tabernacula,' though ' tentoriis ' corresponds to ' booths ' in the earlier part of the verse.