Eyerlastingness

For CYerlasting see EsCHATOI.ooY. ' Everl.astingness,' once common for 'eternity,' is now used only where its special signification is emphasized, as Cheyne, Isaiah, i. 242, ' The idea of the divine everlastingness is one of the primary notes of the proiihecy.' It occurs only 2 Es 8'-"' ' O Lord, thou that dwellest in ever- hustingne.ss ' (qui inhabitas sa^culum, RV 'abide.st for ever,' llVm ' iiiliabitest eternity '). Wye.

(1388) translates Is 57" 'For the Lord liigh, and enliaunsid, seith these things, that dwellith in euerlastyngnesse.' J. Hastings. EVERY is occasionally found in AV where mod. u.sage demands 'each,' as 2 S 21™ 'a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes ' ; 2 Ls 3'° ' it came to pa-ss in every of lliem' (RV omits) ;t Rev 21-' 'every several gate was of one pearl ' (RV ' each one of the .several gates'). Cf. Cranmer, fVorks, i.

Ill, ' In my right hearty wise I commend me unto you, and likewise The line of an Assyr. Bab. magical text is oft«n renil as, The woman from the loins of the man they bring forth,* and mioted as a parallel to the formation of Eve from the ribs of Adam. But when this line is correctly tr.

and read in its context, the parallel entirely disappears; 'they' are demons, and the paasai,'0 narrates their ubi^viity and mischief ; thev enter houses through locked doom, like a snake or the wind, and A woman (who is] at the loins (T) of a man they lead away. A child [who is) at tlii> knee of a man they draw forth. A noble [who is] at the house of his kindred they drive out.' J. D. Davis, ilenesU aid .?rm. Trad. 49. See throughout, Oa/. Ueb. Lex. ijri, Dillm. on On 320 4'. t Cf. T.

Elyot, The Govfmotir, ii. 4, ' he niaclo as w«l thi great us the snial, and careth (or euery of theui equally.' 798 EVl EXACT to everich of you.' Cf. also Ex So'" ' every wise hearted among you.' Trench (^On the Auth. Ver. 0/ XT, p. 63) pointe out that both 'each' and 'every' take occasionally plu. concords, as Ph . "23 ' Let each esteem other better than themselves ' ; Rev 201 "They were judjjed every man according to their works.'

He adds, ' "each " and " every," though alike implying many, alike resolve that many into its units, and refer to it in these its constituent parts, with only the difference that " each " segregates, and " every " aggregates, the units which compi ise it- J. Hastings. EVI ('IK 'desire' (?))— One of the five kings of Midian slain, Nu 318, jog 1321 (eW) P.