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'Are you mad, Aaron? But he, holding her back with his gaze, threw wide the door with his left hand, while his right upheld Elijah's goblet, and over the ululation of the unseen mob and the shrill spasms of music rose his Hebrew welcome to the visitor: 'Baruch habaa!
But thou wast once as eager to learn Hebrew, his grandmother said, and the chance words, spoken as she left the room, awakened his suspended interests.
"Thou art a God that hidest Thyself," said the Hebrew poet. It may be said with all reverence that it is behind a man's back that the spirit of nature hides. It is this consideration that lends a certain air of futility even to all the inspired simplicities and thunderous veracities of Tolstoy.
Hebrew had retained a few "Arabisms," a few traces of its ancient contact with Arabic-speaking tribes; that was all. In other respects it was the same as "the language of Canaan" on either side of the Jordan. The Ammonites believed themselves to be the children of the national god Ammi. But Ammi was usually worshipped under the title of Malcham or Milcom, "the King."
We read that the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, the Hebrew word for which is adamah. The word Adam means "be red," and adamah may be referred to the red soil of Palestine. Kalisch also observes that man may have been originally called Adam on account of the red color of his skin. The Chinese represent man as kneaded of yellow earth, and the red Indians of red clay.
Songs they are, dark and rugged, like all the higher Hebrew poetry; but, like it, full of the very Spirit of God the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of faith and of the fear of the Lord. There are three of these songs which seem to belong to those last days of his. The Prayer of Moses the man of God which is our 90th Psalm, our burial Psalm.
Here, under boughs that arched the way, he took from his shoulders his knapsack, filled with Hebrew and Greek books, and rested his head on the larger bag of roughly tanned Westland leather, in which were all his other belongings. They were not numerous.
"Who's that?" "Melchitsedek Pinchas, the poet I told you of." "I suppose he writes in Hebrew." "No, if he did the translation would be plain sailing enough. The trouble is that he will write in English. I must admit, though, he improves daily.
But the phrase "he is his money" has been adduced to show that Hebrew servants were regarded as mere things, "chattels personal;" if so, why were so many laws made to secure their rights as men, and to ensure their rising into equality and freedom? If they were mere things, why were they regarded as responsible beings, and one law made for them as well as for their masters?
I know him for a transcendant linguist in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and modern European languages; and with or without the Sanscrit, I look up to him, and rely on his erudition in all cases, in which I am concerned.
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