the vapours exhaled by the sun, which descend from the clouds to
water the earth, Eccles. xi, 3. The sacred writers often speak of the
rain of the former and latter season, Deut. xi, 14; Hosea vi, 3. Twice
in the year there generally fell plenty of rain in Judea; in the
beginning of the civil year, about September or October; and half a year
after, in the month of Abib, or March, which was the first month in the
ecclesiastical or sacred year, whence it is called the latter rain in
the first month, Joel ii, 23. (See _Canaan_.) The ancient Hebrews
compared elocution, and even learning or doctrine, to rain: “My doctrine
shall drop as the rain,” Deut. xxxii, 2.
water the earth, Eccles. xi, 3. The sacred writers often speak of the
rain of the former and latter season, Deut. xi, 14; Hosea vi, 3. Twice
in the year there generally fell plenty of rain in Judea; in the
beginning of the civil year, about September or October; and half a year
after, in the month of Abib, or March, which was the first month in the
ecclesiastical or sacred year, whence it is called the latter rain in
the first month, Joel ii, 23. (See _Canaan_.) The ancient Hebrews
compared elocution, and even learning or doctrine, to rain: “My doctrine
shall drop as the rain,” Deut. xxxii, 2.