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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    scription is rather an allusion to the known inscription on the forehead ot the high priest.. Holiness to the Loid. Whereby is intimated, that this idolatrous persecuting government was an antichristian church, ot a tempei and spirit quite contrary to the true worship ot the one true q0(] Lowman in loc. No. 598.—xix. 10. Ifell at his feet to worship him.] This appears to have been the act of homage usually paid to great men in the East, and which was now per- formed under impressions more solemn than those which were made by the presence of princes and kings. Mr. Bruce thus describes the ceremony now alluded to : “ The next remarkable ceremony in which these two nations (of Persia and Abyssinia) agreed, is that of ado- ration, inviolably observed in Abyssinia to this day, as often as you enter the sovereign’s presence. This is not only kneeling, but absolute prostration ; you first fall upon your knees, then upon the palms of your hands, then incline your head and body till your forehead touches the ground, and, in case you have an answer to expect, you lie in that posture till the king, or some- body from him, desires you to rise.” (Travels, vol. iii. p. 270.) No. 599.—xxi. 2. Prepared as a bride.] In the East brides frequently change their dress, and are presented each time they do so to the bridegroom. WArvieux gives this account of the Arabs, (Voy. dans la Pal. p. 225.) “ When the evening is come, the women present the bride to her future husband. The women who con- duct ber make him a compliment, who answers not a word, sitting perfectly still, with a grave and serious air. This ceremony is three times repeated the same evening ; and whenever they change the bride’s dress, they present her to the bridegroom, who receives her