The Astronomy of The Bible
T. DeWitt Talmage
Exodus, 30: 34
Exodus, 30: 34: '' And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha.''
You may not have noticed the shells of the Bible, although in this early part of the sacred Book God calls you to consider and employ them, as he called Moses to consider and employ them. Behold and wonder and worship. The onycha of my text is a shell found on the banks of the Red Sea, and Moses and his army must have crushed many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onycha on the beach and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as true as the first chapter of Genesis and the last chapter of the Revelation or every- thing between. Not only is this shell, the onycha, found in the Red Sea, but in the waters of India. It not only delectates the eye with its convolutions of beauty, white and lustrous and seriate, but blesses the nostril with a pungent aroma. This shell-fish, accustomed to feed on spikenard, is redolent with that odorous plant, redolent when alive and redolent when dead. Its shells, when burnt, bewitch the air with fragrance. In my text, God commands Moses to mix this onycha with the perfumes of the altar in the ancient Tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of its perfumes at the altar of our own tabernacle, as I now come to speak of the Conchology of the Bible, or God among the Shells.
It is a secret that you may keep for me, for I have never before told it to any one, that in all the realms of the natural world there is nothing to me so fasci- nating, so completely absorbing, so full of suggestive- ness, as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up the onycha from the banks of the Red Sea, or pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean, and listen, and you hear a v-hole choir o ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Exodus, 30: 34
Exodus, 30: 34: '' And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha.''
You may not have noticed the shells of the Bible, although in this early part of the sacred Book God calls you to consider and employ them, as he called Moses to consider and employ them. Behold and wonder and worship. The onycha of my text is a shell found on the banks of the Red Sea, and Moses and his army must have crushed many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onycha on the beach and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as true as the first chapter of Genesis and the last chapter of the Revelation or every- thing between. Not only is this shell, the onycha, found in the Red Sea, but in the waters of India. It not only delectates the eye with its convolutions of beauty, white and lustrous and seriate, but blesses the nostril with a pungent aroma. This shell-fish, accustomed to feed on spikenard, is redolent with that odorous plant, redolent when alive and redolent when dead. Its shells, when burnt, bewitch the air with fragrance. In my text, God commands Moses to mix this onycha with the perfumes of the altar in the ancient Tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of its perfumes at the altar of our own tabernacle, as I now come to speak of the Conchology of the Bible, or God among the Shells.
It is a secret that you may keep for me, for I have never before told it to any one, that in all the realms of the natural world there is nothing to me so fasci- nating, so completely absorbing, so full of suggestive- ness, as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up the onycha from the banks of the Red Sea, or pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean, and listen, and you hear a v-hole choir o ...
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