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Isaiah 6:13

Isaiah 6:13

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and it shall return: etc. or, when it is returned, and hath been broused

teil tree: The teil-tree is the linden or lime-tree, a species very common in Palestine; the leaf of which resembles that of the laurel, and its flower that of the olive. But the original ailah: which our translators render the oak (but here distinguished from allon: the oak), and Bp. Lowth the ilex: in , probably denotes, as Celsius contends, the terebintḣ: It is an evergreen of moderate size, but having the top and branches large in proportion to the trunk; leaves, like those of the olive, but green intermixed with red and purple; flowers, like those of the vine, growing in bunches, and purple; fruit, of a ruddy purple, the size of a juniper berry, hanging in clusters, very juicy, and containing a single seed of the size of a grape stone; wood, hard and fibrous, from which a resin distils; with an excresence scattered among the leaves, of the size of a chestnut, of a purple colour, variegated with green and white.

substance: or, stock, or stem,

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