COR, or CHOMER; a measure equal to ten ephahs, or 17,468 solid 14. CORAL; a stony plant which can coast, near the Bastion of France, and near Marseilles, in the Mediterranean., The Syrians anciently brought it from the south, and traded therein with the Tyrians, Ezek. xxvii. 16. However valuable it be, it is not to be compared to wisdom, to Jesus Christ, and his true religion, Job xxviii. 18. torment, Luke xvi. 24. A cool spirit | is to write a double from an original is one submissive, patient, and not manuscript, Prov. xxv. 1. soon angry, Prov. xvii. † 27. The cool, or wind of the day, is the time of the evening sacrifice, a little before sun-inches, which is 44 solid inches more set: then Jesus first appeared to fal- than the English quarter, Ezek. xiv. len men in Paradise, and then he expired for them on Calvary, Gen. iii. 8. COOS; an island in the Mediter-grows in the sea, and which is no less ranean sea, at a small distance from hard while in the sea than when out the south-west point of Lesser Asia. of it. It cleaves to rocks by a root The chief city of it was Coos, which scarce visible. It is of three general was overthrown by an earthquake kinds: the black is the most rare and about 400 years before Christ. Escu- esteemed; the white is of very small lapius, the god of physic, was their use; but the red is used in medicine, chief idol. The famed painter Apel- and for chaplets, beads, and other orles, and the no less famous physician naments. Coral is fished in the PerHippocrates, were natives of this is-sian gulf, in the Red sea, on the Afriland. A kind of silk trade began here very early, and served the immodest Roman ladies with a kind of gauze, through which their bodies sufficiently appeared. The Coans had kings of their own, as early as the reign of JEHOSHAPHAT, if not much earlier. They afterwards fell under the Persians, Pontians, and Romans. Paul sailed by this place in his voyage to Jerusalem; but it does not appear that there was a church here for some ages afterward. In the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, we find a church settled in it; but since it fell into the hands of the Saracens and Turks, Christianity, and every thing else, have made but a poor appearance. It is now called Stancora, or Lango, Acts xxi. 1. COPPER; a hard and heavy metal, and next to gold and silver, the most ductile into threads or wire. It consists of ill-digested sulphur, yellowish mercury, and red salt. It is found in stones of various form and colour. Virgin copper is found pure, in grains, flakes, or lumps. Copper mingled with the Calamin stone, becomes brass; and with fine tin, it constitutes belmetal. If copper be anointed with the spirit of wine and orpiment, it becomes white, Ezra viii. 27. COPY; a double of an original writing, Deut. xvii. 18. To copy out, CORBAN; a gift offered to the service of the Jewish teinple. The Jews frequently devoted the whole, or part of their goods, or even their persons, as a corban, or offering to God. In their degenerate ages, if a man made a corban, or sacred oblation, of what should have maintained his wife, his father, or mother, they wickedly pretended that they owed them no subsistence; and sometimes to ease themselves, they pretended to make a corban of their property, when they did not, Mark vii. 11. They sometimes swore by their corban, or gift, Matth. xxiii. 18; and called the treasury of the temple corban, because there the presents were laid up, Mat, xxvii. 6. Gr. CORD; a small ROPE, for binding or drawing, &c. Josh. ii. 15. The silver cord that is broken at death, is the pith or marrow of the back-bone, which, descending from the brain, goes down to the lowest part of the back-bone, and produces the various and innocent persons, Psal. cxxix. 4. and cxl. 5. The cords of sins are their corrupt lusts, habits and customs, the curse of God's law, and the punishment denounced by it, which hold transgressors that they cannot escape, Prov. v. 22. Men draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with a cartrope, when, with unsubstantial pretences of pleasure, profit, and the like, they engage themselves and others to do wickedly; and, with all might and diligence, endeavour to commitit, Isa. v. 18. Afflictions are cords; they restrain our liberty, and ought to draw us to God; nor can we free ourselves therefrom at pleasure, Job xxxvi. 8. tendons, nerves, and sinews of the body. This is round as a cord, and white as silver; and by it the motion of the body is affected. Or may not this silver cord be the union between soul and body? Eccl. xii. 6. The cords of God, which wicked men cast from them, are his government and laws, which are uneasy to them, as they restrain their liberty, and bind them to duties which they heartily hate, Psal. ii. 3. He draws with cords of a man, and bands of love, when, with rational and gentle arguments, and with the discovery and application of his redeeming love, he, by his word, excites and inclines their soul to receive Jesus Christ, and obey his CORIANDER, according to Linlaws, Hos. xi. 4.* The cords of a næus, is a kind of the pentandria church or state, are her constitutions, digynia plants, the general corolla of laws, rulers, power, and wealth, that which is difform and radiated; the connect and establish the various parts proper flowers of the disk are hermathereof; and, by the ruin of the for- phrodites, and composed of five unemer of which, the church and state qual petals; the stamina are five simare disordered or dissolved, Isa. liv. 2. ple filaments; the fruit is a roundish Jer. x. 20. The harmonious society berry, containing two half round seeds, of friends is a three fold cord, not easily of an aromatic smell, and pleasant broken; each contributes to strength-taste. They are reckoned useful meen and support the whole body, Eccl. iv. 12. The cords, wherewith the Jewish sacrifices were bound to the altar, might represent God's command; the love of Jesus to sinners, and his surety-engagement for them, by which he was bound to continue in his debased and suffering state, till, by his death, he had finished the atonement of our sins, Psal. cxviii. 27.The cords of sinners, are the snares whereby they catch and ruin weak • Thou shalt have none to cast a cord by lot, thou shalt have none to divide inheritances, Micah. ii. 5. The cords extended in setting up tents furnish several metaphors, denoting either the stability or the ruin of a person or people, according as they are said to be firm and stretched out, or loosened and broken, He hath loosed my cord, that is, he hath taken away the power and authority with which I was girded, hath untwisted all my powers, Job xxx. 11. dicine in windy disorders, and the headachs occasioned by them. They are also useful to stop emerods and fluxes, and to discuss strumæ.The manna might be like corianderseed, in respect of its form; the two seeds together being about the bigness of a pea, with a smooth surface: but if Moses means, that the manna was like the seed of GAD in whiteness of colour, it must be some other plant that is meant by GAD; for the seed of coriander is greyish, Exod. xvi. 31. CORINTH; a famed city, the capital of Achaia, seated on the isthmus or neck of land which separates the Peloponnesus, or Morea, from Attica on the north, Lecheum on the west, and CENCHREA on the east, were seaports and distant suburbs belonging to it. It is said to have been built by about A. M. 2400; but if he was the Sisyphus the grandfather of Ulysses, founder, it was probably built 500 years later in the days of Solomon. 1 The citadel of Corinth, built upon an | directs them to excommunicate an inalmost impregnable rock, made the cestuous person; warns them to aplace considerably strong: its situa- void law-suits before Heathen magistion between the two seas of Greece trates, mutual offences, uncleanness, rendered it extremely wealthy. Rich- irregularities in marriage, or giving es introduced pride, luxury, and lewd-offence in eating things offered to He directs them to afford due ness, to an astonishing degree. The idols. most public and abominable prostitu- support to their faithful pastors; and tion of women, was a part of the wor-how to attend public worship, particuship of Venus, their goddess: a thou-larly the Lord's supper, with due reverence and order; and how to seek sand whores were consecrated to one temple. Till about A. M. 3200, or and use spiritual gifts: he then largelater, the Corinthians were governed by explains and vindicates the docby kings; and for many ages after-trine of the resurrection which some ward, mostly by an aristocracy. A-among them doubted of, or denied; bout A. M. 3724, this city acceded to and directs them to prepare a collecthe Achæan confederacy. Highly tion for the poor Christians in Judea. provoked with the Corinthians insult-This epistle had a very good effect on ing of the Roman ambassadors, who, || them. The apostle therefore wrote after the conquest of Greece, had ordered the dissolution of that league, Mummius the consul, in A. M. 3858, took their city and burnt it to ashes: the multitude of statues of different metals, melted and run together in the conflagration, composed the Co-lection for the saints of Judea; and, rinthian brass, which was reckoned more precious than gold. About 46 years before Christ, this city was rebuilt by Julius Cæsar, and peopled with a Roman colony. It quickly became the finest city of Greece. them another, wherein he explains to them the substance, glory, and tendency of the gospel: gives them directions to receive the incestuous person, now sufficiently penitent; insists on their having in readiness their col with no small boldness, declaims against his wicked opposers, and vindicates the marks of his apostleship, Acts xviii. 1-17. 1st and 2d epis. to Cor. About A. D. 268, The Heruli burnt In 525, it was aAbout A. D. 52, Paul preached Corinth to ashes. here 18 months, with great success, gain almost entirely ruined by an About 1180, Roger, and amidst no small persecution from earthquake. the Jews; planted a Christian church king of Sicily, took and plundered it. here, which hath continued more or Since 1458, it hath been generally unless till the present times. Soon after der the power of the Turks; and is his departure from them, in A. D. 54, so decayed, that its inhabitants ahe seems to have wrote them a friend-mount to no more than about 1500 ly letter, which was not inspired, and or 2000, half Mahometans, and half is now lost, 1 Cor. v. 9. 2 Cor. x. Christians, with an archbishop at their 10, 11. Various disorders and schisms head. quickly took place among them: some pretended to be followers of Paul, others of Peter, others of ApolJos, and others, pretending to more Their false strictness, of Christ. teachers exceedingly decried the apostle Paul. He therefore, inspired by God, wrote them a large epistle; wherein he rebukes their divisions; vindicates his own office and conduct; CORMORANT ; the water-raven. It is a kind of pelican, and of the size of a goose. Its back is of a deep dusky brown, with some admixture of a greenish gloss, its belly and breast are white the long feathers of its wings are greyish: its tail is about the length of a hand-breadth and a half; and, when expanded, appears roundish at the end: its legs are black, : thick, flattish, and covered with a kind of scales: its toes are joined together by a membrane, in the manner of a duck: its lower chap has its base covered with a naked yellow membrane. It builds on trees, or in rocks, and lives on fish, and, with great violence, alights on them in the water: the SHALECH was unclean by the law, Lev. xi. 17. Deut. xiv. 17; but the KAATH, Isa. xxxiv. 11. and Zeph. ii. 14. is the pelican, Psal. cii. 6. | the rays of the sun of righteousness, they recover from spiritual decays, and pleasantly flourish, and forbode a rich harvest of eternal blessedness, Hos. xiv. 7. Good men, dying in old age, are as a shock of corn, coming in, in its season; being fully prepared for death, they are carried by angels into the heavenly mansions, Job v. 26. Blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, are likened to corn, to denote their necessity and eminent usefulness for men's soul or body, Isa. Ixii. 8. Ezek. xxxvi. 29. Hos. ii. 9. Zech. ix. 17. Manna is called corn of heaven; it fell from heaven, and sustained men's lives, as corn doth, Psal. 1xxviii. 24. CORN; wheat, barley, oats, rye, &c. After growing up in stalks, it|| forms into ears at the top, of different figures. Being cut down with the sickle or scythe in harvest, it is bound into sheaves, and set up in shocks that it may be sufficiently CORNELIUS; a centurion bedried; then it is carried home to the longing to the Italian band. He was barn-yard, or garner; and being a Gentile by birth, probably of the threshed out and grinded into meal, Cornelii at Rome, but a devout man, is a most strengthening food. The perhaps a proselyte of the gate to the ancients, and some of the eastern peo-Jewish religion, and lived at Cæsarea. ple, still have their threshing-floors While he was employed in solemn under the open sky: here they some- prayer and fasting, an angel appeartimes threshed out their corn, by run-ed to him, assured him that God had ning carts with low, thick, and iron-accepted his prayers and alms; and shod wheels over it, Isa. xxviii. 28. directed him to send to Joppa for SiSometimes they caused their cattle mon Peter, that he might, from him, to tread it out, as its ears were big-receive further direction in his religer than ours, Deut. xxv. 4. They also threshed it out, by a kind of sledge with two rollers, which had rows of iron-teeth, which cut the straw as a saw, Isa. xli. 15. Sometimes they did beat it out with flails. After it was threshed, it was winnowed, and grinded in hand-mills driven by asses or slaves, Matth. xxiv. 41. An handful of corn, sown on tops of mountains, may denote Christ himself the corn of wheat, as preached, or his gospel-truths and ordinances, dispensed by a few apostles, and other preachers, in places spiritually barren, to an eminent degree, and yet remarkably fruitful in the conversion of multitudes, and the production of much grace and good works, Psal. lxxii. 16. The people of God revive as the corn; when watered with the rain of his word and Spirit, and warmed by gious concerns. He immediately sent off two of his servants to bring Peter. Peter was prepared for their invitation, by a vision of mingled beasts, whereby was signified to him, that God had chosen to himself a people from among the Gentiles; and therefore he ought to make no scruple of preaching the gospel to them, or of admitting them members of the Christian church: he therefore, directed by the Holy Ghost, went along with the servants, and on the morrow after, about mid-afternoon, came to Cornelius's house, who with a number of his friends, waited his arrival. It seems, Cornelius had supposed Peter might be the Messiah, and so fell at his feet to worship him; but was quickly checked, by Peter's raising him up, and informing him that he was but a mere man. After Corne CORNET; a wind-instrument of horn or like one, for sounding in war, or at religious solemnities: but as SHOPHAR is ordinarily rendered trumpet, I know not why it is ever rendered cornet, Hos. v. 8; but KEREN, or KARNAH, is very properly rendered cornet, Dan. iii. 5, 7, 10. lius had related to Peter how he came || people of Samaria were taken out in to send for him, and that he and his the corner of a bed, and those of Dafriends were assembled to hear the mascus in a couch; were reduced to word of God, Peter entertained them great poverty; and, notwithstanding with a discourse concerning Jesus the all endeavours to the contrary, were Messiah, in his miracles, sufferings, carried into a wretched captivity by and glorious resurrection, and of his the Assyrians, Amos iii. 12. sufficiency to save from sin: meanwhile, to the surprise of Peter's Jewish attendants, the Holy Ghost, in his miraculous influences, fell upon Cornelius and his Gentile friends, and they spake with tongues. Upon Peter's motion, they were immediately baptized. Cornelius detained Peter some days with him. At first the believers of Jerusalem were offended with Peter for baptizing the Gen-consume Matth. vi. 19. (2.) To mar; tiles; but on hearing the whole circumstances, they glorified God, for granting them faith and repentance. This was the first noted gathering of the Gentiles to Christ; and perhaps, at this very time, the sceptre depart- || ed from Judah, Acts x. and xi. Gen. xlix. 10. CORRECT. See CHASTEN. make bad, 8 Cor. xv. 33. (3.) To disobey; pervert; improve wickedly, Mal. ii. 8. (4.) To defile; pollute, Exod. xxxii. 7. (5.) To entice from good, and allure to evil, 2 Cor. 3. (6.) To bribe; make to dissemble, Dan. xi. 17, 32. CORRUPT, what is bad, or tends to render any thing bad.CORNER. (1.) The utmost part Corrupt communication, is coverse of any thing, as of a country, robe, that is filthy and unsavoury, proceedbeard, building, altar, table. The ing from a wicked heart, and tending corners, or four corners, of a land, to defile others with sin, Eph. iv. 29. signify the whole of it, Numb. xxiv. corrupt words, are such as are fatter17. Ezek. vii. 2. The Hebrews were ing and deceitful, Dan. ii. 9. Corrupt forbidden to round the corners of their || persons, are such as are biassed by head, by shaving, or marring the cor- carnal interest, or sinful inclinations, ners of their beard, as the supersti- 1 Tim. vi. 5. 2 Tim. iii. 8. CORRUP-' tious Heathens did, Lev. xix. 27.- TION, (1.) The abominable putrefac(2.) An obscure part of a house or tion, or rottenness of dead bodies, country, Prov. xxi. 9. Isa. xxx. 20. Psal. xvi. 10. (2.) The blemishes, Acts xxvi. 26. The corner that came which rendered an animal unfit for saforth from Judah, was either their crifice, Lev. xxii. 25. (3.) Sinful inclichief rulers, who adorned and esta- nations, habits, and practices, which blished their nation in the time of are hateful in themselves, and defile Nehemiah, the Maccabees, &c. com- and ruin men, Rom. viii. 21. 2 Pet. ii. pare 1 Sam. xiv. 38. Heb. or rather 12, 19. (4.) Everlasting ruin, Gal. vi. 8. Jesus Christ, who, as the chief corner- (5.) Uncomeliness, as of a dead body, stone, connects, adorns, and establishes Dan. x. 8. (6.) Men in their mortal his church, Zech. x. 4. with Psalm and imperfect state, 1 Cor. xv. 50. cxviii. 22. Isa. xxviii. 16. The horns,The mount of Olives is called the and sprinkling of blood on the four mount of corruption, because there Socorners of the altar, imported the e-lomon built high places or temples qual access, which all the ends of the for abominable idols, to gratify his earth have to salvation in Christ, heathenish wives, 2 Kings xxiii. 13. Exod. xxvii. 2. Ezek. xlv. 19. The || COTES; huts or houses, to shel |