- SCRIP a small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Samuel
17:40); “a shepherd’s bag.”
In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag
carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Matthew
10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; 10:4). The name “scrip” is meant to denote
that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from
larger articles, trifles.
- SCRIPTURE invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite
collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which
we usually call the Old Testament (2 Timothy 3:15, 16; John 20:9;
Galatians 3:22; 2 Peter 1:20). It was God’s purpose thus to perpetuate his
revealed will. From time to time he raised up men to commit to writing in
an infallible record the revelation he gave. The “Scripture,” or collection of
sacred writings, was thus enlarged from time to time as God saw
necessary. We have now a completed “Scripture,” consisting of the Old
and New Testaments. The Old Testament canon in the time of our Lord
was precisely the same as that which we now possess under that name. He
placed the seal of his own authority on this collection of writings, as all
equally given by inspiration (Matthew 5:17; 7:12; 22:40; Luke 16:29, 31).
(See BIBLE; CANON.) - SCYTHIAN The Scythians consisted of “all the pastoral tribes who
dwelt to the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, and were scattered far
away toward the east. Of this vast country but little was anciently known.
Its modern representative is Russia, which, to a great extent, includes the
same territories.” They were the descendants of Japheth (Genesis 9:27). It
appears that in apostolic times there were some of this people that
embraced Christianity (Colossians 3:11). - SEAH In land measure, a space of 50 cubits long by 50 broad. In measure
of capacity, a seah was a little over one peck. (See MEASURE.)