CAD, or Cadus,1 signifies in Hebrew a Pitcher, a Hogshead, a Bucket. But in S. Luke a particular Measure is meant by it. How much owest thou unto my Lord? And he said, an hundred Measures of oyl.2 The Greek reads, an hundred Baths. Now the Bath or Ephah, contains ten Gallons, and some small matter over. A Cad is very different from a Cab, which is no more than the eighteenth part of an Ephah or Cadus.
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Translators’ note. Dr. Arbuthnot having enumerated the several Jewish Measures for things liquid, concludes his account of them with these words, In the Scriptures are also found, Nebel, Assa, Nod, Cad, Aboth. Purah, Bacbuc, which some Authors take for certain Measures; but they rather seem to have been the names of Vessels of no determinate Bigness. Tables of antient Coins, Weights and Measures, &c. p. 162. ↩
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Translators’ note. The Vulgate reads, Centum cados olei. ↩