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 / by Samuel Burder.

  • Samuel Burder
Date:
1802
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Credit: 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 / by Samuel Burder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of wild-olive ; in the Pythian, sacred to Apollo, of laurel; in the Isthmian or Corinthian, solemnized in honour of Palaemon, of pine-tree ; and in the Nemaean, of smallage, or parsley. Now most of these were ever- greens ; yet they would soon grow dry and break to pieces. Elsner (Observ. vol. ii. p. 103.) produces many passages in which the contenders in these exer- cises are rallied by the Grecian wits for the extraor- dinary pains they took for such trifling rewards. And Plato has a celebrated passage, which greatly resembles this of St. Paul, but by no means equals it in beauty and force. (1 Pet. v. 4.) Doddridge in loc. No. 521.—ix. 26. So fight /, not as one that beateth the air.] In order to attain the greater agility and dexteritjr, it was usual for those, who intended to box in the games, to exercise their arms with the gauntlet on, when they had no antagonist near them, and this was called armogu^ia, in which a man would of course beat the ajr. But Bos has taken a great deal of pains in his note here, to shew that it is a proverbial expression for a man’s missing his blow, and spending it, not on his enemy, but on empty air. Doddridge in loc. No. 522.—ix. 27. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lost that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast away.] The latter part of this verse Doddridge renders, lest after having served as an herald I should be disapproved, and says in a note, I thought it of importance to retain the primitive sense of these gymnastic expressions. It is well known to those, who are at all acquainted with the original, that the word HYipvfyg expresses the dis- charging the office of an herald, whose business it was to proclaim the conditions of the games, and display the prizes, to awaken the emulation and resolution of