INDEX.

A.

ABRAHAM, a sort of king, 11-numerous servants, 12—
waits on his guests, 15

Adam, probably the first who offered a sacrifice, 295, note
Administration of justice among the Israelites, 165

Adoring, what, 112

Age, the first foundation of authority, 162

Agriculture, see Husbandry

Alienation of lands revoked every fifty years among the Is-

raelites, 49

Altars erected for memorials of great events, 9

Altaschith, what, 236

Angel of the church, what it signifies, 327, 328, note
Anointing, reason of it, 62

Animals used in sacrifice, 299-manner of killing such, 300-
flaying, salting, &c. 301-offered at the door of the taber-
nacle, 303

Animals, different, eaten and abstained from among different
nations, 71, 72

Apocrypha, books of, considered canonical by the Catholics,

168

Apostles among the Jews, their office, 209

Arabic language abounds in obscene terms, 114, note

Arms, all persons capable of using them, ecclesiastics as well
as laymen, made up the antient militia, 173-what the
antient arms consisted of, 174, 175-not worn by the
Israelites except on duty, 174

Arts, curious ones among the Hebrews, 50, 51

Artificers, few among the Israelites till the time of David, 51
-many of the Greek heroes such, 52, 53

Arure of land, how much, 42

Asmoneans, see Maccabees

Athenians, how at first divided, 22

Astrology, several eminent ladies addicted to, 151, 152, note
Ayeen Akberi quoted, 229

Ayeleth Shahar, what, 235

B.

Babylon, the fertility of its plains, 33

Bakers, when first at Rome, 52

Balsam-tree only found in Palestine anciently, 39

Baptism administered to proselytes, 263-how performed, ib.-

how administered to women, 266

Bathing, why frequent in the east, 62

Beards, long, worn by the Israelites, 62

Bedsteads, in the east often of ivory, and placed against the

wall, 65

Bells in churches of modern invention, 134

Bissextile how computed, 290, 291

Books now lost referred to in the Old Testament, 97, 98

Bramins neither kill nor eat animals, 72

Bread, how much per day a man eats, 42-very little bread
kept among the Israelites, 51-the word used in Scripture
means all sorts of victuals, 60, 70

Breast-plate, 326

Britons, ancient, their dress, 4, 5

Burial, the manner of it among the Israelites, 121, 122–no
religious ceremony used at it, 123

Byssus, what it was, 60

C.

Cakes of libation, 301, 302-called nakudeem, or perforated,
70, note

Calends, what, 285

Canaan, the Israelites prohibited from marrying with his de-
scendants, 22, 23-Canaanites the same with Phoenicians,
49-their tribes, 269, 270

Canopies, the use of them in the east, 64, 65

Caoinian, or ancient funeral cry among the Irish, 122, 123
Captivity of the ten tribes above a hundred years before that of
the other two, 186-the consequences of captivity antiently,
and of Israel and Judah in particular, 187, 188-the re-
storation of Judah from it, 189-much reformed by it,
191-how long after it before they could rebuild their city
and temple, 192

Castration of cattle prohibited to the Israelites, 46

Cato the Censor writes on country affairs, 31-his opinion of
the pastoral life, 14-a maxim in his book the same with
one in Prov. xxiv. 27. 36

Cavalry of little use in mountainous countries, 176-forbidden
to the Israelites, though much used in Egypt, 175, 176,
note-numerous however in Solomon's time, 176

Ceremonies, some borrowed from the Jewish church, 263
Chazan, who, 327, 328

Children of this world-of darkness-light, &c. whence the
expressions, 21-increase of them desired by the Israelites,
88, 89-how numerous in some families, ib.

Chimneys among the antients little known, 66

Chlamys of the Greeks, what, 56, note, 59
Christians eat too often, 73

Church, whence the word, 164

Cicero, what he means by Jewish gold, 209

Circumcision practised by many nations besides Jews, 79, 80-
performed in private houses without the ministry of priests,
87-benediction used at, ib. note

Circumcision the seal of the covenant, 262

Cities in Judea, the habitation of labourers, and very numerous,
166-their gates the seats of justice, ib.—at first built by
wicked men, 13

Cleanliness, its importance, 75, 76

Cloaks, a sort of military dress, 59
Clothes of the antients injudiciously represented by most
painters, 56, 57-fashions of them little changed in the
east, 58-ill consequences of their change, 58, 59—of
white colour most in use among the Israelites, Greeks, and
Romans, 60-made generally among them all very plain,
ib.-of the women more sumptuous, 62, 63

Cælosyria described, 277

Concubines, though generally slaves, yet, to keep them not
reckoned disreputable, 91-ill consequences from the use
of them, 92

Confession of faith, 332-334

Corban, what, 309

Council of seventy-two and the highpriest at Jerusalem, and of
twenty-three in the smaller cities, their power, 165, 166
-kept their court at the gate of the city, 166-continued
while the Jews were subject to the Persians, 193—and to
the Romans, 209

Country-people, the cause of their misery, 28

Courts of judicature among the Romans at the forum, of the
Israelites at the city gates, in feudal times at the courts of
lords' castles, 166, 167

Craftsmen, Valley of, 54

Crusades laid waste the Holy Land, 38

Cubit, two sorts mentioned in Scripture, 127
Cynara, what, 103

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D.

Day, how divided by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, 279,

280, 281

David, his riches, 180

Dancing in use among the Israelites, 104

Daughters of the patriarchs bred to hard labour, 14
Death of the patriarchs, how described in Scripture, 17

Decapolis described, 275

Deism of a Jewish Rabbi, 355, 356

Dice invented by the Lydians, 117
Diet of the antient Israelites, 69-74
Diodorus, meaning of the name, 24

Diogenes, what it signifies, ib.

Divorce, ill consequences of it, 92-when first heard of at
Rome, ib.

Dress of the Hebrews, 56, of the English, 4, 5.

E.

Eastern fashions change little, 58-their compliments more like
our's than those of the Greeks and Romans are, 112-
play at no games of hazard, 117
Edom, what it signifies, 272

Egypt, physic supposed to have been invented there, 18-what
food the Egyptians abstained from, 71, 72-Solon, Pytha-
goras, and Plato, studied there, 194, 195-becoming an
addition to the Roman power, hastened the ruin of the
Jewish, 206

Elders of Israel, the Jewish sanhedrim, 163, 164—the seat of
the elders, what meant by it, 164-number of, 164, note

Elijah, meaning of the name, 23

Embalming practised by the Israelites as well as Egyptians, 122
Eponymi, what, 22

Ephod described, 325

Equinox, what, 288, 289

Essenes, their manner of life, 214

Ethnarchs, what meant by them, 209

Eumeus described by Homer making his own shoes, 52