Navel - The central region of the body is taken as the representative of all the vital organs. For “health” we should read healing, or, as i…

Navel. —As it is the center, and so the most important part of the body. (Compare the epithet applied to Delphi, “navel of the ear…

It shall be health to your navel
That part of the body which is the knot of the intestines; and may be put for the b…

There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion tea…