[665] He refers to Gibbon, iv. 232.
[666] See Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brönte.
[667] LXX., 1 Kings xix. 2.
[668] The touch "which belongeth to Judah" shows that the Elijah-narrative emanated from some prophet in the northern schools. In later days it was much visited by pilgrims from the Northern Kingdom (Amos v. 5, viii. 14).
[669] Matt. xxvi. 36.
[670] 1 Kings xix. 4, 5, רֹתֶם אֵחָת; Vulg., subter unam juniperum. The plant is the Genista monosperma, with papilionaceous flowers. Not "juniper," as in Luther (Wachholder) and the A.V. LXX., ῥαθμὲν φύτον. See Robinson, Researches, i. 203, 205. It gave its name to the station Rithmah (Numb. xxxiii. 18) and the Wadies Retemît and Retâmah.
[671] Comp. Moses (Numb. xi. 15), Jonah (Jonah iv. 3).
[672] Pope's epitaph on Mrs. Elizabeth Corbet, in St. Margaret's Westminster.
[673] Jer. xx. 1-18.
[674] Psalm cii. 6, 8.