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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    (as is not uncommon) to their houses, by order of the bashaw, and so deprived even of that little freedom which custom had procured them from their husbands.” The prohibitions of the bashaws are designed, or pre- tended to be designed at least, to prevent the breach of chastity, for which these liberties of going abroad might be supposed to afford an opportunity. For the same reason it may be apprehended that St. Paul joins the being chaste and keepers at home together. FIarmer, vol. ii. p. 403. No. 559.—iii. 5. The washing of regeneration.'] As washing is an act whereby purification is effected and de- filement is removed, it is a very proper word to express that divine change which is produced by regeneration, and when connected with the ancient and universal practice of washing new-born infants, gives peculiar energy to the conversation of Christ with Nicodemus on the subject of the new birth, as also, to the phrase used by the apostle in this passage—the washing of regene- ration. Much attention was bestowed on the washing: of O infants. The Lacedaemonians, says Plutarch, in his Life of Lycurgus, washed the new-born infant in wine, meaning thereby to strengthen the infant. Generally, however, they washed the children in water, warmed perhaps in Greece, cold in Egypt. Plautus, in his Am- phytrion, speaks of such a washing : Postquam peperit pueros, lavare jussit, nos occcpimus : bed puer ille quern ego lavi, ut magnus est, oi multum valet!