"The fairy fouk o' Fosterland,
The witches o' Edincran,
And the rye-kail o' Reston
Gar'd a' the dogs die."
The rye-kail alluded to must have been a broth chiefly made from rye, which grain, it is well known, is sometimes so much tainted as to be poisonous.
C. Benson.
Birmingham.
Ἀρνίον (Vol. vi., p. 509.).—Probably your correspondent is aware of the explanation given by Dr. Wordsworth in his book on the Apocalypse, but does not think it satisfactory. Still, as he does not allude to it, I venture to transcribe it:
"The Apocalypse abounds in contrasts. For example, the LAMB, who is always called Ἀμνὸς, never Ἀρνίον, in St. John's Gospel, is called Ἀρνίον, never Ἀμνὸς, in St. John's Apocalypse, in which Ἀρνίον occurs twenty-nine times. And why does ὁ Αμνος here become τὸ Ἀρνίον? To contrast Him more strongly with τὸ Θηρίον, that is, to mark the opposition between the LAMB and the Beast."
To this a note is appended: