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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    which the votaries of particular deities were distin- guished. Mr. Blackwall (Sacred Classics, vol. ii. p. 66.) considers it as an allusion to an Egyptian custom, ac- cording to which any man’s servant, who fled to the temple of Hercules, and had the sacred brands or marks of that deity impressed upon him, was supposed to be under his immediate care and protection, and by that to be privileged from all violence and harsh treatment. • -1 r ■ No. 538.—EPHESIANS ii. 18. For through him we both have access by one splint unto the father. The word Tpocrci'yuyyvp, which we render access, properly refers to the custom of introducing persons into the presence of some prince, or of any other greatly their superior, in which case it is necessary they should be ushered in by one appointed for that purpose, to pre- serve a becoming decorum. Doddridge in loc. No. 539.—ii. 19. Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.] The proselytes who joined them- f selves to the God of Israel, were by the Jews and by the scriptures styled strangers. He that only took upon him to worship the true God, and observe the precepts of Noah, was Ger Toshab, a stranger permitted to dwell among them, and to worship in the court of the gentiles. He that was circumcised, and became obedient to the law of Moses, was Ger Tzedek, a proselyte of righteousness: but both were called strangers according to the maxim of the Jews: all the nations of the world are called b B