beam of the balance, and hence’ the balance itself. The judg- ment of this seal is scarcity, of which the balance is a symbol, representing the time when food is doled out by weight. See Lev. xxvi. 26; Ezek. iv. 16.
6. Measure (xoiu£). Choenix. Only here in the New Testa- ment. A dry measure, according to some, @ quart, to others a pint and a half. Herodotus, speaking of the provisions for Xerxes’ army, assigns a cheenix of corn for a man’s daily supply, evidently meaning a minimum allowance (vii., 187); and Thucyd- ides, speaking of the terms of truce between the Lacedeemoni- ans and the Athenians, mentions the following as one of the provisions: “The Athenians shall permit the Lacedzemonians on the mainland to send to those on the island a fixed quantity of kneaded flour, viz., two Attic quarts (xoivixas) of barley- meal for each man” (iv., 16). Jowett (“Thucydides”) says that the chcenix was about two pints dry measure. So Arnold (“Thucydides”), who adds that the allowance of two cheenixes of barley-meal daily to a man was the ordinary allowance of a Spartan at the public table. See Herodotus, vi., 57.
For a penny (Snvapiov). See on Matt. xx. 2.
8. Pale (Apes). Only in the Apocalypse, except Mark vi. 39. Properly, greenish-yellow, like young grass or unripe wheat. Homer applies it to honey, and Sophocles to the sand. Generally, pale, pallid. Used of a mist, of sea-water, of a pale or bilious complexion. Thucydides uses it of the appearance of persons stricken with the plague (ii, 49). In Homer it is used of the paleness of the face from fear, and so as directly descriptive of fear (“Tliad,” x., 376; xv., 4). Of olive wood (“ Odyssey,” ix., 320, 879) of which the bark is gray. Glad- stone says that in Homer it indicates rather the absence than the presence of definite color. In the New Testament, always rendered green, except here. See Mark vi. 39; Apoce. viii. 7; ix. 14.
Hell. Properly, Hades. The realm of the dead personified. See on Matt. xvi. 18.