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. 575.—1 PETER i. 5. Kept by the power of God. The original word, (ppsps^svag, is very emphatical, and properly signifies being kept as in an impregnable gar- rison, secure from harm, under the observation of an all-seeing eye, and protection of an almighty hand. No. 576.—ii. 4. A living stone.'] By a metaphor taken from plants, which stick fast to their roots, and are nourished by juice ascending from them, stones which remain still in the quarry are said to be living. By this epithet here is meant the firmness of that thing which is signified by the name of a stone, for nothing is firmer than stones growing in a quarry, or cleaving fast to a rock by their roots. For this reason a steady and in- flexible purpose of mind is compared by Ovid to such a stone, where he speaks of Anaxaretes: Durior et ferro, quod Noricus excoquit ignis, Et saxo quod adhuc vivum radice tenetur. Metam. 14. No. 577.—v. 4. Chief shepherd.] In ancient times, when flocks and herds of cattle were very numerous, the care of them required the attention of many shepherds; and that every thing might be conducted with regula- rity, it was necessary that one should preside over the rest. This we find was customary; and hence, in 1 Sam. xxi. 7. we read that Docg was the chief of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul ; and in some curious remarks on the sheep-walks of Spain, published in the Gentle- c c 2