BURN; (1.) To be hot, Lev. xiii.

pears they were not buried in coffins, || as is the manner with us. Friends 28. (2.) To consume with FIRE.— and neigbours attended the occasion, (3.) To destroy; waste; purge, Lam. with a great deal of MOURNING and iii. 3. Isai. iv. 4. (4.) To have the apparent grief. Kings scarce ever heart eager in desire, love, sympathy, attended a funeral; hence David's Luke xxiv. 32. 2 Cor. xi. 29. (5.) attendance on the funerals of Abner, To have the mind filled with passion, and joining in the mourning, is ob- disquiet, Psal. xxxix. 3. Jer. xx. 9. served as something remarkable. He (6.) To be under the prevailing pow no doubt did so, to ward off suspicioner of fleshly lust, 1 Corin. vii. 7.of the murder, and to conciliate the There shall be burning, i. ertawniaffections of the people, John xv. andness or burning ulcers, instead of beauxix. and xx. Acts viii. 2. 2 Sam. iii.ty, Isa. iii. 24.

31-36. When the modern Jews BURST; to rend violently. God come to their burying-place, which bursts mens bands, when he restores they call the house of the living, they them to liberty, Jer. ii. 20. and xxx.8. address themselves to the persons bu-Men burst God's bands, in furiously ried, and bless God for making, pre-breaking his laws, Jer. v. 5. A man serving, and cutting them off by death, is ready to burst like a new bottle, and that he will raise them again. At when his matter and desire to speak the grave, this blessing is repeated; grow exceedingly on him, Job xxxii. and the corpse being set down on the 19. The bursting of the Jews' vain ground, they make an oration in praise and wicked confidence, imports the of the dead person, and walking a-dissolution of their church and state, ound the grave, repeat a long prayer. by the Assyrians, Chaldeans, and RoAfter a prayer for the man's soul, they mans, Isa. xxx. 14. let down the corpse into the grave, BUSH, a low, spreading, and often and desire him to go in peace. The prickly shrub. The bush burning, relations begin to cover him with and not consumed, which Moses saw earth, and then all present assist.-near mount Horeb, represented our They walk backward, till they are at earthly nature united to the Son of some distance from the grave; and God, inflamed with the fire of divine as they leave the burying-place, they punishment, and yet not consumed, pluck some bits of grass, and throw but supported and refreshed: and the behind their backs, saying, They shall Hebrew nation in the fire of Egyptian flourish like grass of the earth. cruelty, and the church in the fire of

To be buried with Christ in baptism, imports our regeneration, and continued mortification of sin, by virtue of fellowship with him in his death, represented, sealed, and applied to us in our baptism, Romans vi. 4. Col. ii. 13.*

Lord Bacon gives instances of the re alive. The famous Duns Scotus is of the surrection of persons who had been buried number; who, having been seized with a catalepsis, was thought dead, and laid to sleep among his fathers, but raised again by his servants, in whose absence he had been buried.

The ancients did not bury their dead in Burying alive, was the punishment (a- the cities, but in the suburbs and fields. mong the ancient Romans) of a vestal who And the practice of burying in churches bad violated her vow of virginity. The was not allowed of for the first 300 years unhappy priestess was let down into a deep after Christ. In the 6th century the peopit, with bread, water, milk, oil, a lampple began to be admitted in the churchBurning, and a bed to lie on. But this was only for shew; for the moment she was let down, they began to cast in the earth upon her till the pit was filled up.

yards; and some princes, founders, and bishops, into the church. From that time the matter seems to have been left to the discretion of the bishop.

Ency.

know not. It was long before the Greeks knew any thing of butter.— The Dutch were the introducers of it into the East Indies. The ancient Romans, and modern Spaniards, use it as a medicine, not for food. It is far otherwise in the Dutch and British dominions. Butter and honey were so plentiful in Canaan, as to be common provision, Isai. vii. 15. 22. To wash one's steps with butter, is to enjoy great and delightful prosperity, Job xxix. 6. Flattering speech is smoother than butter, is apparently very soft and agreeable, Psal. Iv. 21.

BUSTUM, in antiquity, denotes a pyramid or pile of wood, whereon were anciently placed the bodies of the deceased, in order to be burnt. The Romans borrowed BUTTOCK; to have it uncover-e the custom of burning their dead from ed, imported the greatest shame and the Greeks. The deceased, crowned disgrace, 2 Sam. x. 4. Isaiah xx. 4. with flowers, and dressed in his rich- BUY; to buy from men, is to obest habits, was laid on the bustum.-tain right to, and possession of, a thing, Bustum was also figuratively applied || by giving a price for it, Gen. xlii. 2. to denote any tonib. Whence these To buy from Christ, is, [under a sense phrases, facere bustum, violare bus- of our unspeakable need of himself tum, &c. Ency. and his blessings, and in the belief of BUSY; diligent in work. Busy their excellency and fitness for us, to bodies are such as, neglecting their receive them freely,] as the eternal proper work, give up themselves to portion of our soul, and to forsake intermeddle with the affairs of others, || whatever stands in opposition there2 Thess. iii. 11. BUSINESS is the to, Isaiah lv. 1. Rev. iii. 18. Matth. work which men do; or which they xiii. 44. To buy the truth, and not ought to do, by virtue of their calling sell it, imports the most diligent conor trust, Deut. xiv. 5. Rom. xii. 11. sideration, and cordial embracement BUT, ordinarily signifies, that the of it, and cleaving to it, whatever exthings between which it is placed, are pence, hazard, or trouble it costs us, contrary or diverse, John vi. 27. and Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy the merchaniii. 17. Matth. vi. 15. and xx. 16. dise of Rome, is, at the eternal hazard Our English translation has frequent- of our soul, to embrace her abominaly and, where but might have done tions; or, by money, intercession, or better. the like, to procure Antichristian dignities, offices, reliques, pardons, Rev. xviii. 11. God bought his chosen people, by giving his Son to the death, as an infinite ransom for them, I Cor. vi. 19. He bought the Hebrew nation, in exerting his power and goodness on their behalf, bringing them from Egypt, and loading them with mercies unnumbered, that they might be his peculiar people, Deuter. xxxii. 6. He buys professed Christians, in giv ing them his word; and at much expence of power and goodness, delivering them from heathenism, pope

BUTLER, one charged with the care of the wine-cellars, in the house of a great man. Pharaoh's butler, was also his cup-bearer, that filled out his wine to him and his guests, Gen. xl. 1. and xli. 9. His office was called butlership.

BUTTER. Calmet will have it to be the same with cream, among the eastern nations; but it is plain from Prov. xxx. 33. that it was brought forth by churning; whether in a skin, as is the custom at present among the Moors and Arabs, or otherwise, we

ry, or profaneness, that they might means, or instrument of any thing, serve him, 2 Pet. ii. 4. Rom. viii. 11. and v. 1. or it signifies at, or near to, Exod. xxx. 4. Dan, viii. 8. or denotes the object sworn by in an oath, Gen. xlii. 15, 16. A by-way, is one not commonly used, Judg. v. 6. A by-word, a speech frequently used

BUZ, the son of Nahor by Milcah,|| and ancestor of Elihu, the companion of Job. His posterity dwelt in Arabia the Desert, and were terribly distressed and enslaved by Nebuchadnezzar, Gen. xxii. 21. Job xxxii. 1.in derision of one. By and by, in a Jer. xxv. 23. short time, Matth. xiii. 20.

teenth of an ephah: it contained about 96 solid inches, which is six inches less than our Scotch pint.

CAI

by obtained, as a cage is with birds,

chiefly Rome, is a cage of every unclean and hateful bird; is full of abominable persons, offices, officers, CABBALA, a mysterious kind of doctrines and customs, Rev. xviii. 2. science, delivered by revelation to the CAIAPHAS, the high-priest of ancient Jews, and transmitted by oral the Jews, who succeeded Simon the tradition to these of our times; serv-son of Camith about A. D. 16, or 25, ing for interpretation of the books as Calmet thinks, and married the both of nature and scripture. The daughter of Annas. It is certain he word is also written Cabala, Cabbala, was high-priest that year in which Kabbala, Kabala, Cabalistica, Ars Ca-our Saviour suffered. When the bala, and Gaballa. It is originally He-priests and Pharisees, heartily vexed brew, kabbalah; and properly signi- at the raising of Lazarus from the hes reception. Cyclo. dead, consulted whether they should apprehend Jesus or not, and put him to death, Caiaphas upbraided them with their stupidity, and told them, it was necessary Jesus should die for the people, that the whole nation might not perish. Doubtless he meant, that his death was necessary to prevent the Romans from destroying their nation; but the Spirit of God, CABIN, a small cell in a prison, who directed his lips in this sentence, Jer. xxxvii. 16. intended to signify, that the death CABUL. (1.) A city on the fron-of Jesus was necessary, for the saltier of the lot of Asher, Josh. xix. 27. (2.) The name that Hiram king of Tyre gave to the country which Solomon presented him with, to mark his displeasure with it, 1 Kings ix.

- CABBALISTS, a sect among the Jews, who follow and practice the cabbala, or interpret Scripture according to the rules of the literal cabbala.— || A particular account of the Cabbalistic art, as practised not only by Jews, but by Heathens and Christians, is found in Basnage's His. of the Jews, book iii. cap. 10-28. Cyclo.

13.

CAGE, for birds and wild beasts. Wicked mens houses are represented as filled with deceit, and what is there

vation of the children of God, whether Jews or Gentiles, John xi. 49, 50.

When Jesus was apprehended by the servants of Caiaphas, and others of the rascally order, he was first brought to, and examined by Annas; next he was brought to Caiaphas's hall, where the priests and elders were convened to judge him. After nothing