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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Cummin
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An umbelliferous plant like fennel, with aromatic, pungent, carminative seeds; beaten out with a rod, not threshed (Isaiah 28:25; Isaiah 28:27); tithed by the punctilious Pharisees (Matthew 23:23). "Cummin splitting" was a Greek adage for cheese-paring parsimony (Aristophanes, Wasps). Grown still in Malta.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Cummin'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/cummin.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Cummin'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/cummin.html. 1949.
