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(nrihZi) who held discourse with the first woman war
originally represented as the guardian of the wonderful
tree in the midst of God's earden. Thrre mav hare
been originally only one seraph just ar there may have
been only one cherub (cp Ezek.281416 Pr. 18ra[rr]).
" 2. If is also ooarible to repard
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the seraoh as a nobler
development of a bird of urev. . . H. G. 'Tomkitrs long .
ago suggested a comparison with the Egyptian ,erg',
which appears as the gourdim of graver and as the
bearer of the EEYD~~~"
kings to heave" on their decease.
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SERMON ON THE MOUNT
~nfettered wag in which Mt. and Lk. make a place for
I in fhclr narratives.
The arguments in favour of the second of these views
preponderate. It is against the first that we find no
trace of ?w "5 a divine name, and against the third The place assigned to this orotio nronionn' in our
that it leaves no real distinction between the seraph and Srsf gospel iliustrvter the literary methd which here ar
the cherub. And it is against both that o'n,w is so In Nit. I elsewhere leads Mr. to produce his effects
much more naturally rendered 'serpents' than either
by means of marring together alternate
setting,
'burning ones' or 'sereis.' It may seem rtrangr that
groups of incidents and of sayings, not
the symbolirln of the temple deconrion made no use infrequently taken from various quarterr without strict
of the seraphim. But the temple did contain one regard to what may have beell their original setting or
sacred object closely analogous to the original seraphim :hronoloeical seauence.
-the so-called 'brazen serpent ' (see NEHUSHTAN).
Hezekiah broke it in pieces. The Jewish and Christian
imagination did romething better with the seraphim
inherited from folk-lore; it transformed and ennobled
them. See C~e~aelnr, p I. T. K. C.
SERB ( ~ ~ [BA]). ~ a I p Esd fi3z RV. AV ASKRER
=Ezra253, SISERA, 2.
SEREBIAS (fcspaBlac [B.4]). z Esd. 854. AVmg.
=Ezra818. SHEnEslAa.
SERED (l7Q ; caps& [BAFL]), a clan of Z~BGLUN
(T.v.). Gen. 461, (CE- [A]. ECP- [Dl. CEAEK [LI, Nu.
2616). whence the patronymic. AV SARDITE. RV
Seradite (Nu. 2616; '??PC ; o capsA[fl~ [BAFLI).
SERGIUS PAULUS (cspy~w rrayhw [Ti.WHI)t
Acts 13,. See PAULUS.
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SEIWEANTS (Acts1635 ~ 8 . EV). t RVmc. LICTORS. The inner structure of the address corresponds in
"art. but anlv in "art to its ~effine.~ Out of the
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SERMON ON THE MOUNT
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J, Stroetm, crowds, Galilean and non-Galilaean,
Critical ~presuppsitions (P I). Beatitudes and War (% lo).
who thronged Jesus on the border of
In Mr. ($8 2.4).
csusand the Lnv(%8 XI-13).
1" Lk. (8 sL). , A ew Law (8 r4J)
the lake, his adherents gathered to him as he retired to
m i 1 I Mk. ( ) Finale (8 16).
the hill-slooe 151 t: ). What follows is re~resented as an
Mt.'r Sermon n compd=non Audience(8 171
address deiivked 16 them directly, in the hearing of the
($ 8). Historical rignlficance (8 r8h
Trinrporiiion in Sermon (6 9). Bibliography (8
larger throng (728J). Jerar seizes the opportunity to
The Sermon on the Mount is the conventional title
proclaim vividly and openly his aims and methods in a
given to an
rnognn