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Judaism: The shoulder of the ram used in the consecration of Aaron, used as a heave-offering. [HEAVE-OFFERING.] "So supper came up. And first a heave-shoulder and a wave-breast were set on the table before them." - Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progre , pt. ii. heaven, Heaven (as hev'n), *hef-en, *he of-en, *he of-ene, *heov-en, *hev-en, *hev-ene, s . [A.S. he of on, hiófon , hefon; O. Icel. hifinn; O. Sax. hevan .] I. Ordinary Language : Hesiod there is a reference to the Islands of the Blest, where the heroes of the Fourth Age were to pa a second life. Afterward the Elysian Fields, by Pindar placed in the extreme west, though they often were thought to be beneath the earth, were supposed to be the home of the spirits of the just. In most of the ethnic beliefs, heaven, as a state, is a realization of the earthly summum bonum. There are three chief sites of the ethnic heaven: (1) Some distant part of this earth: The seats of happine are represented by some Hindu writers to be vast mountains on the north of India; (2) below the earth, as many of the lower races still think; and (3) in the extreme west, an opinion with poetic beauty in its favor, since it is in that region the Sun descends to his home, the land where, according to the solar myths, there is no more night. (2) Jewish : Many pa ages relate to heaven, or the heaven of heavens, as the special abode of God (1 Kings viii. 27) and very high (Job xxii. 12). With regard to man, the references in the Old Testament to a state of existence beyond the present are few; these few, however, a ign joy and pleasure to the righteous (Psalm xvi. 10, 11), attended by resplen dent glory (Dan. xii. 2, 3). (3) Christian : The heaven of ble edne is spoken of as if its locality was upward from the earth (Luke xxiv. 51; John i. 32; Rev. xi. 12, xxi. 10). God, whom the disciples and Christians generally were taught to addre as their Father, is there (Matt. v. 16, 45, 48; vi. 9); Christ came thence at first (1 Cor. xv. 47), and, when His mi ion to earth was complete, re ascended thither (Luke xxiv. 51). The Holy Spirit was sent down from heaven (1 Peter i. 12); the throne of God is there (Rev. iv. 2; v. 1); nay, in one sense, all heaven is that throne (Matt. v. 34). Innumerable angels are in heaven, surrounding the Divine throne (Rev. v. 11); there is a temple also (Rev. xi. 19; xiv. 17; xvi. 17). Multitudes of persons, sealed as the servants of God, out of every nation, shall be there, clothed in white robes, and with palms in their hands (Rev. vii. 3,9). They shall no more hunger or thirst, or feel undue heat or any sorrow (13-17). This felicity will not be reached till after the resurrection, when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal immortality, death, the last enemy, being destroyed (1 Cor. xv. 26,54). 2. Symbolism : Heaven, in the Table of Symbols of the early ages, is represented by the segment of a circle, sometimes of blue, or of the three colors of the rainbow; the universe by a globe of blue. Host of Heaven : 1. The stars. "And when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven."- Deut . iv. 19. 2. Angels. 1. More or le literally ( of the form heaven): (1) The atmosphere surrounding the globe. "And fowl that may fly above the earth in the open of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his firmament of heaven ." - Genesis i. 20. fate, făt, färe, amicst, what, fall, IMG:content-1071.png:[blocks in formation] "Aspice hoc sublime candens, quem omnes invocant Jovem" preserved for us in Cicero ( De Nat . Deor ., iii. 4)— show that among the Greeks and Latins the heaven god became later the god of heaven. Tylor ( Prim . Cult ., ii. 231 sqq .) traces a similar development in the religion of the North American Indians, the Zulus, the tribes of Western Africa, the Tatar tribes: and among the Chinese Tien (Heaven) is in personal shape the Shang-ti, or Upper Emperor, the lord of the Universe. "With such evidence perfectly accords the history of the Heaven - god among our Indo-European race."-Tylor: Primitive Culture , ii. 234.