a reed answering the purpose of a pen to write
with. The ancients used styles, to write on tablets covered with wax;
but reeds, to write on parchment or papyrus. The Psalmist says, “My
tongue is the pen of a ready writer,” xlv, 1. The Hebrew signifies
rather a style. The third book of Maccabees states, that the writers
employed in making a list of the Jews in Egypt, produced their reeds
quite worn out. Baruch wrote his prophecies _with ink_, Jer. xxxvi, 4;
and, consequently, used reeds; for it does not appear that quills were
then used to write with. In third John 13, the Apostle says, he did not
design to write with pen (reed) and ink. The Arabians, Persians, Turks,
Greeks, and Armenians, to this day, write with reeds or rushes.
with. The ancients used styles, to write on tablets covered with wax;
but reeds, to write on parchment or papyrus. The Psalmist says, “My
tongue is the pen of a ready writer,” xlv, 1. The Hebrew signifies
rather a style. The third book of Maccabees states, that the writers
employed in making a list of the Jews in Egypt, produced their reeds
quite worn out. Baruch wrote his prophecies _with ink_, Jer. xxxvi, 4;
and, consequently, used reeds; for it does not appear that quills were
then used to write with. In third John 13, the Apostle says, he did not
design to write with pen (reed) and ink. The Arabians, Persians, Turks,
Greeks, and Armenians, to this day, write with reeds or rushes.