had to rise and salute him in a particular manner. Any guard found asleep when on duty was beaten, or his garments were set on fire. The confession of one of the Rabbins is on record that, on a certair occasion, his own maternal uncle had actually un- dergone the punishment of having his clothes set on fire by the captain of the Temple” (Edersheim, “The Temple,” etc.).
Shame (aoxnuoctvnv). Only here and Rom. i. 27. From a not and oyfpa fashion. Deformity, unseemliness ; nearly answering to the phrase not i good form.
16. Armageddon. The proper Greek form is“Ap Mayedav. The word is compounded of the Hebrew Har mountain, and Megiddon or Megiddo : the mountain of Megiddo. On Megiddo standing alone, see Judges i. 27; 1 Kings iv. 12; ix.15; 2 Kings ix. 27. See also Judges v.19; Zech. xii. 11; 2 Chron. xxxv. 22; 2 Kings xxiii. 30. ‘ Bounded as it is by the hills of Palestine on both north and south, it would naturally become the arena of war between the lowlanders who trusted in their chariots, and the Israelite highlanders of the neighboring heights. To this cause mainly it owes its celebrity, as the battle-field of the world, which has, through its adoption into the language of the Apocalypse, passed into an universal prov- erb. If that mysterious book proceeded from the hand of a Galilean fisherman, it is the more easy to understand why, with the scene of those many battles constantly before him, he should have drawn the figurative name of the final conflict between the hosts of good and evil, from the ‘place which is called in the Hebrew tongue Harmagedon’” (Stanley, “Sinai and Pales- tine”).
Megiddo was in the plain of Esdraélon, “which has been a chosen place for encampment in every contest carried on in Palestine from the days of Nabuchodonozor king of Assyria, unto the disastrous march of Napoleon Buonaparte from Egypt into Syria. Jews, Gentiles, Saracens, Christian crusaders, and anti-Christian Frenchmen; Egyptians, Persians, Druses, Turks, and Arabs, warriors of every nation that is under heaven, have pitched their tents on the plain of Esdraélon, and have beheld