Note 158 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17] (continued 2)

Arab. “Manjaník;” there are two forms of this word from the Gr. Μάγγανον, or Μηχανὴ and it survives in our mangonel, a battering engine. The idea in the text is borrowed from the life of Abraham whom Nimrod cast by means of a catapult (which is a bow worked by machinery) into a fire too hot for man to approach.