3 Blass {ad loc.) seems to suggest that the name Theudas has been interpolated in the passage of Josephus from the Acts, because the Christiana thought that the two passages illustrated one another. We have some reason for thinking that Josephus was interpolated by the Christians ; but in this instance it is hardly probable that anythmg of the sort was done. .
We do not know enough to explain the dithculty. It is perfectly possible that the explanation of Li'ditfoot may be correct ; it is quite possible that the mistake of St. Luke may only be one of name, and it is very bad criticism to condemn an author for an apparent discrepancy when our knowledge of the circumstances is so limited. But, assuming that the Acts are incorrect, we may ask what tins iniidies It implies that, to a certam extent at any rate, the speech of Gamaliel was the author s com- position. This may mean only that he supplied one of the incidents which Gamaliel referred to, having from some source a general knowledge of the attitude of the speaker ; or it may mean that he took this manner of putting before his readers what he had reason to believe was a tendency ot a section of the Jews. A. C. HKADLAM.
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THICKET.— See Fokest.
THIGH (to:, Mpisl-Tbe girding of the sword vpon the thiqh is referred to in Ex 32-'' Jg i (Ehud girded his swuid upon \ns right thigh, whence, being left-handed, he could most con- veniently draw it, v.'^'). Ps 45», Ca 3«. Jacobs thigh was dislocated by his opponent in wrest ing, so that next day he limped upon it, Gn 32-»i-»' [J]. In an editorial note this circumstance is assigned as the basis of the Jewish custom of dechnmg to eat of 'the sinew that shrank,' v.'=<=»'. See art. Food, vol. ii. p. 39«. In the jealousy ordeal one of the effects looked for in the event ot a wife a guilt was the falling away (Vrj) of her thigh, Nu 51:1. la. 27 rp]. see Dilliii. ad loc. In the ivitsf in praise of theShulammite it is said, ; the roundmgs of thy thighs (T?r 'R'^n) are like .Jewels, Ca/. Smiting upon the tliigh appears in Jer 31" and Ezk 21" as a token ot '-""'^'eiTiation. tor the phrase ' wnite them hip upon thigh (p^i* do^k nsn ij-i-'?!;), see art. Hip. . .
"Special attention is due to a set of passages in which the thigh appears fs the seat of P™=reative power. In Gn 46-^ Ex 1» [both P], Jg S** a man t
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descendants are spoken of as proceedinf; from liis tliii,'h {'ix •><■*■)■ Cf. W. R. Smith, Kins/,i/,, 34, Ji^- 380. This throws lij;ht upon the phuing of the hand under the thigh [ = the genital organ] in taking an oatli, Gn 2-1-- " 47-'* [all J]. The sacred- ness attributed to tliis organ in primitive times (see Holzinger or Gunkel on Gn 24-) would give special solemnity to an oath of this kind. More- over, seeing tliat ' it is from the thigh that one's descendants come, to take an oath w-ith one's hand upon the thigh could be etjuivalent to calling upon the.«e descendants to mamtain an oath wliioh has been taken, and to revenge one which has been broken ' (Dillmann).
It is not clear how we should understand Rev 19" ' He hath on his mantle and on his thigh [ivl rb IfxdTLov Ka.1 itrl ritv ^-qpbv airroo) a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.' The Ka.1 may be epexegetical, when the meaning would be that the name is written on His mantle where this falls U]ion His thigh (so DUsterdieck, B. Weiss, Holtz- mann). Spitta suggests that iinpt>^ [this is its only occurrence in NT] may be the name of an article of uniform, perhaps the sword-belt.
J. A. SELIilE.
THINK. — This verb is frequently used in .W in the sense of 'devise,' 'intend,' as Gn oO*' ' But as for you, ye thought evU against me' (nv) db^F", LXX ^/SouXewrcwfle «is Trovr]pi,\i\ 'ye meant evil'); Ex 32" ' And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people' (ni»;'^ i:i -a's, RV 'which he said he would do'); jlu 24" '\ thought to promote thee unto great honour' C'TJsx, LXX (lira. n/i-^iTu ere) ; Neh 6" ' It is reported . . . that thou and the Jews think to rebel ' (in?'? n'5;f'n, LXX \ayi^(a0e aTroaraTiiiTai). So Jn 11*^ Wye. ' Fro that day thei thoughten [1688 soughten] for to sle him ' ; MandevUle, Travels, 87, ' This Tartary is holden of the great Caan of Cathay, of whom I think to speak afterward.'
To think on or upon is to remember, as Gn 40" ' But think on me when it shall be well with thee' {?;]i»< 'jn'^^rDN '?, LXX dXXa fjLvrjadijTl fxov 5id atavrov, RV 'But have me in thy remembrance'); Nch 5" 'Think u[)on me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done ' (' ■'•n-jri, RV ' Remember unto me, O my God, for gooil, all that I have done'); G" ' Aly God, think tliou upon "Tobiah and Sanballat aicbnling to these their works ' (mri, LXX iii'wOvTi, RV ' Remember ') ; Jon 1», Sir 18=» 51*. So He 10" Wye. ' I schal no more thenke on the synncs and wickedncssis of hem ' (ov /ii) fwija- 0ri<roixiu, Vulg. nun rccurdiibur).