24:24) “that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Eber.”
Daniel prophesied (11:30) that the ships of Chittim would come against
the king of the north. It probably denotes Cyprus, whose ancient capital
was called Kition by the Greeks.
The references elsewhere made to Chittim (Isaiah 23:1, 12; Jeremiah 2:10;
Ezekiel 27:6) are to be explained on the ground that while the name
originally designated the Phoenicians only, it came latterly to be used of all
the islands and various settlements on the sea-coasts which they had
occupied, and then of the people who succeeded them when the
Phoenician power decayed. Hence it designates generally the islands and
coasts of the Mediterranean and the races that inhabit them.
- CHIUN occurs only in Amos 5:26 (R.V. marg., “shrine”). The LXX.
translated the word by Rhephan, which became corrupted into Remphan,
as used by Stephen (Acts 7:43; but R.V., “Rephan”). Probably the planet
Saturn is intended by the name. Astrologers represented this planet as
baleful in its influences, and hence the Phoenicians offered to it human
sacrifices, especially children. - CHLOE verdure, a female Christian (1 Corinthians 1:11), some of whose
household had informed Paul of the divided state of the Corinthian church.
Nothing is known of her. - CHOR-ASHAN smoking furnace, one of the places where “David
himself and his men were wont to haunt” (1 Samuel 30:30, 31). It is
probably identical with Ashan (Joshua 15:42; 19:7), a Simeonite city in the
Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to
another reading, to be “Bor-ashan.” - CHORAZIN named along with Bethsaida and Capernaum as one of the
cities in which our Lord’s “mighty works” were done, and which was
doomed to woe because of signal privileges neglected (Matthew 11:21;
Luke 10:13). It has been identified by general consent with the modern
Kerazeh, about 2 1/2 miles up the Wady Kerazeh from Capernaum; i.e.,
Tell Hum. - CHOSEN spoken of warriors (Exodus 15:4; Judges 20:16), of the
Hebrew nation (Psalm 105:43; Deuteronomy 7:7), of Jerusalem as the seat
of the temple (1 Kings 11:13). Christ is the “chosen” of God (Isaiah 42:1);
and the apostles are “chosen” for their work (Acts 10:41). It is said with