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SAIL
Palestine (FPP 422). is not appmenfly indigenour there.
D. H. .\fuller, on rile other hand, separating horhdm
from thr other words mentioned above, conneccr it with
Ar. hnnii.~irn (SnC. om,) and Gk, ndynrrpv,' and so
taker it to ir the resin of the din0 or mastic tree-i.6.
@ri, .?2(Snb. Denim. 82). But Miiller'r ideuti6cation
of rdyncpou \\ith the resin of the mastic tree is a
mistake : xd?jnalrou is. according to Fraar (Syn. PI. FI.
class. 87). derived from Amyrii [=Raiiamodeniiron]
Ka/,~f,~ and is in J I probability therefore the fragrant
gurn much esteemed in rhe east as ' Birsn bO1'-in fact,
an inlevlor kind of myrrh. Mordtmann dwr not
lrlieve in the conr~cction of 05- xith knmMm and
xdynagou: and it seems bnt to follow ancient tradition
in identifying the Heb. word with saffron.
N. hl.-W. T. T-0.
SAIL. I. ~rilen, miphmi; CTPWMNH, Ezek. 277,
'Thy uil to serve as enrign'(D,; SJC.).
2. Dl, nh; ml*eiou or d ;mia c?), 11r.33~~. 'The manycoloured
rail5 served in ancient timer ar distinguishing marks.'
sea SKIS.
SAINT. We hrve to deal, in this article. not with
the subject of Chrirfian, or rather biblical. 'perfection.'
of bllf with the use of 'saint' and 'holy' in
the EV.
terms'
The former word, as a rendering,
either of 4idaf or of hirid, has had the
unfortunate cflecr of obscuring characteristic biblical
idear. Readers of the EV must therefore supply for
themselrea the necessary mental correction or interpretation.
AV :applies the term in OT:
1. To the nngcls (atddiirn, o,w7p), Job 5. 1515 Ps.
8357 [6 a]' Zech 145. RV, however, call5 the angels
'holy ones.' Whether even this phrase conveys the
right idea to a modern reader may be doubted (see
c). and we may well be grateful to Budde (note on Job
5,) fur his suggestion 'heavenly oner.'
2. To persons who are 'holy '-i.#., consecrated
(aidaf, .ip. anddif, .u?~)-e.g. Pr. 10616 (Aaron), 349
[xu] Dan. 7ra =I,? 25*r (faithful worshippers of YahwA).
So, too. RV.
3. To Irraelites who fullil the duties of piety (h*$id.
,,an ; (iccor, innctnr, see LOYLNGKINDNESS). IS. 29 (@
6i~ahor or om.) Ps. 16x0 301[5] 505 529 [XZ] 792 Prov.
28 (6, riiha~ouuivwv), etc. : so RV, except in 7 S. 29.
where it giver (not happily) 'holy oner,' and in mg.
'godly ones.' 'Loyal oner' would give one ride of
the meaning (cp Ps. 50s?). In NT (see above) the EV
uses .snint~' often of Christin~lr. It may be a convenient
term : but if ideas are to be translated, ' God's
people' would perhaps be a better renderinp, with a
SAINT
subjectively 'holy' or ' sinleis.' 'It is not to the state of
holmesr thnt the Pralmiit laye claim, but to the overmastering
affection of moral love, the same in kind as
that of which he is conscious towards his brother laxelites,
and in some degree towards his hrother men. To
a good Israelite there is no bo.?stlulnrss inlpl~ed in such
a claim an the Psalmist's. Whom should he lore but
Yahwh, who hue granted Israel a "covenant olrlered
in all things and sure," a covenant based on the pre~
s~pporltion tho, those nho desire its benefits are bound
bv , oraclical . love to each other, and, both as indiridunls
and as a community, by worshipping and obedient lore
toJchovah' (Aid:, 345 f )? Kirkparrick (op. iif ), hmrever,
follorvinc Huufeid. thinks the dasrivc sense. 'be-
(?&id), etc. RV removes the capital letters ; i(V"'s
Or godly ; or beloved.' Any rendering would be hrtter
than 'holy one' or ' Holv One.' Prrhaor . ' thv ,. loval
one' gives the most important part of the seuse lrat.
The phrase implies an argument ; 'thou wilt preserve
me because of the corenant~bond of lovingkindness.'
In PI. 25.6, too, the wme idea underlies the text, if Gratr is
right in emending the \rry doulirhl yn!+i (7.n.) into /Irisid
'hrvc mercy upon me, lo! I am loyal (to the covmnlt)?
In all such arrager plou