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PLANTS IN SCRIPTURE 145
Symphorianus1 in his description of the exotic myrtle,
makes it folio densissimo senis in ordinem 'versibus. The
paschal lamb was to be eaten with bitterness or bitter
herbs, not particularly set down in Scripture : but the
Jewish writers declare, that they made use of succory,
and wild lettuce, which herbs while some conceive
they could not get down, as being very bitter, rough,
and prickly, they may consider that the time of the
passover was in the spring, when these herbs are young
and tender, and consequently less unpleasant: besides,
according to the Jewish custom, these herbs were dipped
in the charosetb, or sauce made of raisins stamped with
vinegar, and were also eaten with bread; and they had
four cups of wine allowed unto them; and it was
sufficient to take but a pittance of herbs, or the quantity
of an olive.
48. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man
which sowed good seed in his field, but while men
slept, his enemy came and sowed “ tares,” or as the
Greek, %t%ania, “among the wheat.”
Now, how to render zizania, and to what species of
plants to confine it, there is no slender doubt ; for the
1 De Hortis.
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Symphorianus1 in his description of the exotic myrtle,
makes it folio densissimo senis in ordinem 'versibus. The
paschal lamb was to be eaten with bitterness or bitter
herbs, not particularly set down in Scripture : but the
Jewish writers declare, that they made use of succory,
and wild lettuce, which herbs while some conceive
they could not get down, as being very bitter, rough,
and prickly, they may consider that the time of the
passover was in the spring, when these herbs are young
and tender, and consequently less unpleasant: besides,
according to the Jewish custom, these herbs were dipped
in the charosetb, or sauce made of raisins stamped with
vinegar, and were also eaten with bread; and they had
four cups of wine allowed unto them; and it was
sufficient to take but a pittance of herbs, or the quantity
of an olive.
48. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man
which sowed good seed in his field, but while men
slept, his enemy came and sowed “ tares,” or as the
Greek, %t%ania, “among the wheat.”
Now, how to render zizania, and to what species of
plants to confine it, there is no slender doubt ; for the
1 De Hortis.
L