PART I. Page Jurisdiction of King's Courts in India over Natives..... Sketches of Remarkable Living Characters in India.-No. I. Colonel ....... ..... 77, 78, 245 333 Parliamentary Papers :-Tea Duties-East-India Annual Revenue Ac- counts-Claims on the King of Oude East-India Papers :-Compensation to Maritime Officers Home Miscellaneous Intelligence Prices of European Goods in the East .............. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, ON THE ORIENTAL PHRASEOLOGY OF THE Ir may well be supposed, that, however insulated the Jews may have been, as a nation, yet, from their origin and the structure of their language, and still more from their subjection to the Babylonian and MedoPersian monarchs, they must have possessed many notions and expressions in common with other people of the East. Hence, it is evident, that from these languages their metaphors and symbolical style may be advantageously explained; and this observation has of late years led many continental scholars, in particular Rosenmüller and Gesenius, to direct their researches to Asiatic illustrations of the Hebrew writings. But even in this field, far more remains to be done than has yet been achieved. If, however, we except Rosenmüller's Scholia, and a few books of less note, the same process has been but sparingly applied to the Greek Testament, which, not only as the work of Hebrews, but as written at a time when the Jews had necessarily become acquainted with the neighbouring Arabs and people both of the east and west, must be presumed to be capable of elucidation from the same sources, at least in an equal degree. From the Greek language alone, we might partially anticipate these results; but from the Greek language written and spoken by Jews, we may more fully expect them. Therefore, although this paper be not intended as a theological essay, much less as an abstruse and severe criticism of the text and its recensions, it may be useful to notice some remarkable expressions common to many people, because such a collation will elucidate some obscurities, and will prove that they have been almost in proverbial use from time immemorial. Consequently, after a brief survey of the general orientalisms of the Old, some of those discernible in the New Testament will be produced. Throughout both Testaments, the metaphor of gold tried in the fire, either Asiat.Journ.N.S.VOL.15.No.57. B |