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My name is now Christian, but my name at the first was Graceless; I came of the race of Japheth, whom God will persuade to dwell in the tents of Shem. Port. But how doth it happen that you come so late? The sun is set. Chr. I had been here sooner, but that, wretched man as I am, I slept in the arbor that stands on the hillside.
For three years Isaac had mourned for his mother, and he could find no consolation in the academy of Shem and Eber, his abiding-place during that period. But Rebekah comforted him after his mother's death, for she was the counterpart of Sarah in person and in spirit. As a reward for having executed to his full satisfaction the mission with which he had charged him, Abraham set his bondman free.
"Why isn't he here already, then? It wouldn't take him two minutes to get from the deck here," asked the ever-suspicious Le Coq. "It is simple," returned Holmes, calmly. "If you will go yourself and slide down that mast you will see. Shem has stopped for a little witch-hazel to soothe his burns. It is no cool matter sliding down a mast two hundred feet in height."
But I do not understand what that has to do with peasants! I am afraid that there may be something a trifle German in this! Why, liberty is not a peasant’s affair, but a gentleman’s! To be sure, we are all derived from Adam, but I have heard that the peasants proceed from Ham,223 the Jews from Japhet, and we gentry from Shem; hence we are lords over both, as the elder brothers.
Lajard's view, that all Babylonian and Assyrian deities were androgynous, hardly needs discussion now. +409+. Of a more definite character are expressions in two Phoenician inscriptions. The word shem means 'name, and, if it be so interpreted as to give the goddess the name of a male divinity, she may be understood to have partly male form.
Thus was fulfilled his blessing upon him, "And God in the habitation of Shem," for three holy places fell within his precincts the Holy of Holies in the Temple, Mount Sinai, the middle point of the desert, and Mount Zion, the middle point of the navel of the earth. The south fell to the lot of Ham, and the north became the inheritance of Japheth.
But, when they were arrived in the synagogue courtyard, and the Baal Shem began the ceremony, then as she heard his voice, a strange light of recollection leapt into her face. She tore off her veil and cried, "This is the man that drew me out of the cold grave." "Be silent," reprimanded the Master sternly, and proceeded with the wedding formulæ.
That day they performed the ceremony of Initiation with great rejoicing, and the Baal Shem was made godfather or Sandek. But before the feasting began, the father of the child begged the Baal Shem to tarry, "for," said he, "I must needs go first to the lord of the soil and take him a gift of wine.
"And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japhet." Ver. 1. "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them."
The shaft and arch, the frame-work and strength of architecture, are from the race of Japheth: the spirituality and sanctity of it from Ismael, Abraham, and Shem. SECTION XVIII. There is high probability that the Greek received his shaft system from Egypt; but I do not care to keep this earlier derivation in the mind of the reader.
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