The Journey to Jerusalem

15. And after those days we took up our carriages Rev. Ver." our baggage." In the English of the A.V. "carriages" were things which were carried. The word is found in this sense, 1 Samuel 17:22; Isaiah 10:28, as well as in this passage. So in Shakespeare, and cp. Earle's Microcosmographie(Arber), p. 41, "His thoughts are not loaden with any carriagebesides." But the use is quite lost now. The verb indicates rather "packing up" for the purpose of removal, than "taking up" in the act of moving.

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