STUDY VIII.

LESSON I.—Hebrew orthography of the word by which we mean _slave_, 586

to 588; the corresponding word in the Arabic, Chaldaic, and Syriac

languages, 588 to 590.

LESSON II.—Tendency of the Shemitic languages to the rhetorical figure

prosopopœia, 590 to 594.

LESSON III.—Examples of the Hebrew word meaning _slave_, both as a noun

and a verb, 595 to 601.

LESSON IV.—Refutation of the assertion that the root of the Hebrew word

meaning _slave_ is also used in a sense signifying _worship_, 602 to

607.

LESSON V.—Further quotations from the sacred writers, showing the

meaning attached to the Hebrew word signifying _slave_ in the Old

Testament, 607 to 609.

LESSON VI.—Quotations from the sacred authors of the use of the Hebrew

verb signifying _to slave_, or _to be slaves_ to, 610, 611; identity

of welfare and interest between the slave and his master, 612, 613.

LESSON VII.—The two distinct eras in the Hebrew language; its

approximation to the Chaldaic and Persian in the second era, 613 to

615.

LESSON VIII.—Meaning attached to the Hebrew word signifying _slave_ by

Ezra, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, and other prophets, 616 to 618.

LESSON IX.—The use of the Hebrew word meaning slave in the book of

Genesis, and extract from the Rev. J.B. Stratton’s letter to the

author on the same, 618 to 620; the word _Eden_ in the Arabic, 620,

621; the Hebrew word meaning _tilleth_, 622.

LESSON X.—The laws of Moses in Deuteronomy respecting slavery, 623.

LESSON XI.—The Hebrew use of the word meaning _slaves_ in Samuel, and

many other books of the Bible, 624 to 627.

LESSON XII.—Declension of the Hebrew noun meaning _slave_, and the

conjugation and paradigms of the Hebrew verb signifying _to slave_,

628 to 637.

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