Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volumen2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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... mourned for him three - score and ten days . ] We learn from two Greek historians ( Herodotus , lib . ii . chap . 85 , 86. Diodorus , lib . i . Bibl . p 58. ) that the time of mourning was while the body remained with the embalm- ers ...
... mourned for him three - score and ten days . ] We learn from two Greek historians ( Herodotus , lib . ii . chap . 85 , 86. Diodorus , lib . i . Bibl . p 58. ) that the time of mourning was while the body remained with the embalm- ers ...
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... mourning ; and it is still practiced in the East . " A few days after this we came to a place called Rabbock , about four days sail on this side Mecca , where all the hagges ( pilgrims ) , excepting those of the female sex enter into ...
... mourning ; and it is still practiced in the East . " A few days after this we came to a place called Rabbock , about four days sail on this side Mecca , where all the hagges ( pilgrims ) , excepting those of the female sex enter into ...
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... mourning for the dead . They cut off their hair , and that round about ; and threw it into the sepulchre with the bo- dies of their relations and friends ; and sometimes laid it upon the face or the breast of the dead , as an offering ...
... mourning for the dead . They cut off their hair , and that round about ; and threw it into the sepulchre with the bo- dies of their relations and friends ; and sometimes laid it upon the face or the breast of the dead , as an offering ...
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... mourn- ing . ] In harvest time the Egyptians offered the first - fruits of the earth , and kept the feast of Isis with doleful lamen- tations . Julius Firmicus , in relating this circumstance , severely reproves their folly , saying ...
... mourn- ing . ] In harvest time the Egyptians offered the first - fruits of the earth , and kept the feast of Isis with doleful lamen- tations . Julius Firmicus , in relating this circumstance , severely reproves their folly , saying ...
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... mourn for such persons as were absent from home when they died , and were buried at a distance from their relations . Irwin relates ( Travels p . 254. ) that one of the inhabitants of Ghinnah being murdered in the desert gave birth ...
... mourn for such persons as were absent from home when they died , and were buried at a distance from their relations . Irwin relates ( Travels p . 254. ) that one of the inhabitants of Ghinnah being murdered in the desert gave birth ...
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Página 210 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Página 211 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Página 389 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 118 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Página 329 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Página 390 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Página 306 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Página 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Página 339 - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Página 207 - They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.