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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    \ [ 376 ] No. 553.—COLOSSIANS ii. 14. Blotting out the hand, writing. The hand writing, xsipoypuQov, signifies a bill or bond, whereby a person binds himself to some payment or duty, and which stands in force against him till the obligation is discharged. In these words the apostle alludes to the different methods by which bonds for- merly were cancelled: one was by blotting or crossing them out with a pen, and another was by striking a nail through them. In either of these cases the bond was rendered useless, and ceased to be valid. These cir- cumstances the apostle applies to the death of Christ. No. 554.—2 THESSALONIANS iii. 1. That the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified. Some think that these words allude to the applauses given to those who made a speedy progress in the races, which constituted so important a part of the Grecian games.