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TABLE, TABLET
separate table (0<I. xvii. 333). These were some- times covere.1 with a cloth (Crates, Ihena, in Ath. vi 267). The table was removed after the feast. The larger tables of a guest-chamber were longer trapezai, around which tlie guests rechned and liclped themselves from the common dishes ; hence the expression in Lk 22=' ' the hand ... is with me on the table." The food was usually on a platter, but sometimes laid on the table \yithout any dish ; hence the disgust of the condition de- scribed in Is 2S*. f J „, 2. To nrcmre a trible for any one is to feed or nourish him, as in Ps 23'. Figuratively, the per- sonilied Wisdom is said to furnish a table for man s instruction (Pr 9-). Distributing the moans of sustenance to those of the early Christians who lacked, was called by the apostles 'serving tables (Ac 6-) To eat at one's table is to be a member ol his hou.sehold or an honoured guest. David, as one of Saul's officers, ate at the kings table (lb 20-'^) and Mephibosheth as a guest ate at Dav^da table C S O'-'"- "• ", 1 K 2'). The 850 prophets who are said to have eaten at Jezebel's table (I K 18'") did not necessarily sit down with tueir roval hosts, nor did the servants of Soloinon who consumed the meat of his table, the variety and amount of which amazed the queen of blieba (1 K W) • the expression means that they were fed bv the royal bounty (see Heraclides in -^then iv 26). The same is probably true of the 150 Jews and rulers whom Keheraiah claims to have had at his table (Neh 5"). The honour of sit ing at meat with the kin^ was a special favonr (2 b 19=«), requiring careful behaviour (1 r 23'), ana sudden leaving of the table was a mark of dis- pleasure (IS 20^^). Those round the table are said to sit at table (1 K 13»), and the members of the family circle are said to be round about the table (Ps 128^) ; squatting, as the children of the fellahin do stUl. ' The table,' in the sense of the indulqenre in dainties, is to be a snare for the wicked (Ps 69^, Bo 11^). God's tab e to which the birds of prey are invited is provided with the Hesh of His enemies (Ezk 39-»), a figurative description of His just judgment of the wicked. 1 he table in Ezk 23^' is prepared for purposes of the toilet.
In the NT ' table ' is used in the sense of meal in Lk oT-'-*' Jn 12= (where RV substitutes 'sat at meat" for' the AV 'sat at the table'). In Jn 13=8 -no man at table' is the tr. of oi-Se.s rai- d.a«</.^^c... The dogs in the neighbouring Gentile district fed under the table (Mt 15^'- =«, Mk r^ Lk 16-'). Lazarus the beggar desired the crunibs which were gathered and thrown out from under the rich man's table (Lk 16"'),
3. For the table of shewbread see artt. SHEW- BREAD, and Taiikrnaclk, p. 662 f. ,,,,,,„
i The 'table of the Lord' stands m Mai 1'-'- (cf Ezk 41=" 44'«) for the altar. In 1 Co 10-', where it 'is contrasted with the ' table of devils,' it is evidently from the context the Lords Supper as compared with i.agan idol-feasts, the expression being probably borrowed from our Lords words • at my table ' in Lk 22'". , , , ►
5 I'he tables of the money-changers {al Tpdn-ffoi tCv Ko\\vai<TTCv) were the small square trays on stands which are familiar objects at the gates and bazaars of Eastern tow ns on which coins are dis- played, and beside which the money-changers stand. These arc not infrequently overturned m the numerous disputes about the value of ex- chan"es These money-changers were the bankers of prunitive times : thus in the Isaius of Dionysius of Halicarnassus the expression rpairi^y Kara- gKcvd^tcBai is used in the sense of setting up a bank (Reiske, vii. 309). Our Lord overthrew those set up in the courts of the temple (Mt 21". Mk 11". Jn2'n.
6. Table in the sense of a flat surface upon which writings were inscribed is expressed by th« word niS. See following article.
7. in Ca 1'= ' table ' is the tr. of aco, rendered bv LXX ir apanXlaei ouroD and Vulg. in accubitu suo ; cf. perh. 1 S 16", and in late Heb. njp-: (Levy, 3. 163) and 2!::^ [ib. 464 ; Schechter, Ben Sira 56). It probably means, from the context, a couch. See, further, the Comm. ad loc.
In KV ' table ' is left out in Mk 7*. AV here tr. k\ivS>v, 'tables,' but puts 'beds' in margin, ri.e words Ko.i K\LvCv are read by ADXrn24. al min »- latt s>-rr. '*"'' '''' go arm Or; omitted by nBI-^ min p«'i"""^ syr''" me.
LiTEKATTOE. -Besides the authors cited in. text see also Bahr Si/mboUk dex Mosaischen CuUm, Heidelberg, IWi, Schlichte'r, De incnsa /aciemm ; and Ugohm, ' De mensa et panis propositionis- in Tkes. x. 995. ^ ^ACALISTER.
TABLE, TABLET. — !, nt^ (etym. unknown). This word, which may be used of wooden boards or planks (Ex 27^ 38' in the altar of the Tabernacle, Ezk 27" in the ship fig. of Tyre, Ca 8" in a door) t or of metal plates (1 K 7*' on bases of lavers in Solomon's teniple)T, is far more frequently used of stone tablets, esp. those on which the Ten \V ords are said to have been written (Ex 24'= 31'»»«