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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    No. 570.—JAMES i. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. The original words have a singular beauty and elo- quence, containing an allusion to the method of drawing fishes out of the water with a hook concealed under the bait, which they greedily devour. Doddridge in loc. No. 571.—i. 27. Pure and undefled religion.] Arch- bishop Tillotson (Works, vol. ii. p. 581.) has justly observed, that there seems here to be an allusion to the excellence of a precious stone, -which consists much in its being uuOupu ucu a^iuvlog, clear and without flaw or cloud: and surely no gem is so precious or ornamental as the lovely temper here described No. 572.—ii. 2. If there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring.] By the assembly here men- tioned we are not to understand a congregation convened for public worship, as is commonly represented, but a court of judicature, in which men are too apt to favour the cause of the rich against the poor. The phrase, sit thou under my footstool, naturally refers to courts of justice, where the judge is commonly exalted upon a higher seat than the rest of the people. The apostle also says, that such a respect of persons as he here speaks pf is contrary to the law, and that those who are guilty of it, are convinced of the law as transgressors. Now there was no divine law against distinction of places in wor- r