Genesis

Chapter 50

EMBALMING

• chanat', to spice;• The feeling which led the Egyptians to embalm

the dead probably sprang from their, belief in the future reunion of the soul with the body.

• Herodotus (2:86-89) describes three modes, varying in completeness and expense, and practiced by persons regularly trained to the profession, who were initiated into the mysteries of the art by their ancestors. The most costly mode, which is estimated by Diodorus Siculus (1:91) at a talent of silver (over $1000)

• The embalmers first removed part of the brain through the nostrils by means of a crooked iron, and destroyed the rest by injecting caustic drugs.

• An incision was then made along the flank with a sharp Ethiopian stone, and the whole of the intestines removed. The cavity was rinsed out with palm-wine, and afterwards scoured with pounded perfumes. It was then filled with pure myrrh pounded, cassia, and other aromatics, except frankincense.

• This done, the body was sewn up and steeped in natron for seventy days. When the seventy days were accomplished, the embalmers washed the corpse and swathed it in bandages of linen, cut in strips and smeared with gum.

• a wooden case, made in the shape of a man, in which the dead was placed, and deposited in an erect position against the wall of the sepulchral chamber.

• (from McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)

• Mathew 18:21• Eph 4:31-32• 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted,

forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

• Col 3:13-14• 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one

another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

• John 20:29• 29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen

Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

• Hebrews 11:1• Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the

evidence of things not seen. • 1 Peter 1:8-9• 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do

not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith — the salvation of your souls.

• 2 Corinthians 4:18• 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but

at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

• Corinthians 5:7• 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. • 1 John 4:20• If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he

is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?