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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    shipping assemblies, into those which were moie 01 less honourable; this must therefore refer to the law ot par- tiality in judgment. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person oj the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty. (Levit. xix. 15.) The Talmudists say it was a rule, that when a poor man and a rich man pleaded together in judgment, the rich should | not be bid to sit down, and the poor to stand; but either both shall sit, or both shall stand. To this rule or custom the apostle seems to refer, when he insinuates a charge against them of saying to the rich man, sit thou here in a good place, and to the poor, stand thou there. Jennings’s Jewish Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 66. * * ” O ' • * »T J . ' j « ) No. 573.—v. 5. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.] Mr. Black wall (Sacred Classics, vol. ii. p. 183.) in speaking of this passage says, <c The ordinary reader cannot see the relation between a day of slaughter and such high indulgence and merriment. The ideas seem to be oddly put together; the pertinence of the passage may at least be doubted, and the grace of the metaphor is intirely lost. Ev vifxepci eCbciyviQ might not improperly be rendered, in a day, or time of public feasting, or feasting upon sacrifice. It was the custom of all nations, in times of joy or happy success, first to offer some peculiar parts of the sacrifice by way of burnt-offer- ing, in gratitude and acknowledgment to their gods, and then to entertain and feast themselves upon all the rest, prepared and dressed for them, with great freedom and gaiety of heart; and upon these occasions the people often ran into great disorders and indecencies, to which the apostle here alludes.” No. 574.—v. 14. Anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.] “ In Yemen, the anointing of the body is c c