ḥentȧ is the period of 120 years (see Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch., XIV, 264) which was their αἰών, aevum, corresponding in idea, not in actual time, to our century. The secular period of the gods is eternity.
[4.] The Crocodile. Are we to understand this of the crocodile-headed monster pictured in the representations[representations] of the Psychostasia? These pictures are not known to us from as early a date as the chapter itself, but they may have existed. Perhaps, however, this passage may have suggested them.
[5.] Bread. The Egyptian word
ta, like its homonym
, implies something pierced or perforated. The sacrificial cake חַלָּה in Leviticus viii, 26 has the same meaning and, like חַלִיל a pipe, is connected with חָלָל, perforavit, confodit, aperuit, profanavit. See Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch., 1893, p. 386.
ta, a door or gate, and some other homonyms evidently come under the same conception; cf. porta and πείρω.