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4581. [Matt. v. 29.] A prime minister, in HERODOTUS, is called the king's eye.

See Clio, cxiv.

4589. [Matt. v. 30.] If a man steal a goat or a sheep, the magistrate shall cut off one of his hands. HALHED'S Gentoo Laws, p. 221.

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4591.

Abdallah, a Mahomedan of Arabia, a person of distinction lately converted to the Christian faith, was offered his life, forfeited merely by his conversion, if he would abjure Christ. 'No,' said he, 'I cannot abjure Christ.' Then one of his hands was cut off at the wrist. He stood firm, his arm hanging by his side but with little motion. A physician, by desire of the king, offered to heal He made no answer, lookthe wound if he would recant. ing up, like Stephen, steadfastly toward Heaven. His other hand being now cut off; with a countenance of forgiveness, he bowed his head to receive the blow of death.

Christ. Research. in Asia, p. 200.

4592. [- -32.] Among the antient Germans, the husband of an adulteress was allowed to assemble her relations in their presence to cut off her hair, strip her naked, turn her out of his house, and whip her from one end of the village to the other. A woman thus publicly exposed could never wipe away the stain of so foul an infamy; the most circumspect behaviour could never call back her lost character, nor could any motive ever prevail on another to marry her.

Dr. W. ALEXANDER'S Hist. of Women, vol. i. p. 151.

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When a Brahmin divorces his wife, which can only be done for adultery, he performs the same ceremonies for her, as if she had died.

BUCHANAN, Pinkerton's Coll, vol. viii. p. 655.

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4594. [38, 39.] The grand principle of the Mosaic law, in the way of punishment, was retaliation and adequate retribution. But punishment by retaliation is, says MICHAELIS, in almost every case, a much more, sensible evil, than the original injury for every pain and every evil to which we look forward, is, by mere anticipation and fear, aggravated more than a hundred-fold; the pang of a moment is extended to hours, days, weeks, &c.; and when it actually

takes place, every individual part of the evil is felt in the utmost perfection, by both soul and body, in consequence of its being expected. The more nearly, indeed, that a people approach to a state of nature, the more suitable to their circumstances is the law of retaliation in like manner, it agrees better with a democracy, than with any of the other forms of government: although, no doubt, to these it can accommodate itself, and did subsist in Rome under a strong mixture of aristocracy. Smith's Michaelis, vol. iii. pp. 463, 473, 476.

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4606. [— 11. Give us this day our needful bread] Compare epiousion (Grk.) here with periousion in the phrase "eis laon periousion kai exaireton" —in populum peculiarem, egregium et eximium.

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4611.

Into the ages. Amen.] Coclus reigns in the first compartment of the zodiac, beginning with the sign Taurus; Saturn reigns in the second compartment; Jupiter in the third, and Apollo in the last or brazen age.

Month. Mag. for July 1812, p. 509.

And bring us not into a temptation, but deliver us from the evil Jas. i. 13, 14. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, into the worlds (Heb. xi. 3), or into the ages; 1. e. the four spiritual heavens, encompassing our earth successively arising from the Adamic, the Noahic, the Jewish, and the Christian Churches.

4614. [Matt. vi. 19.] All the metals are oxidized by the Oxy-muriatic acid, and afterwards dissolved, forming salts denominated muriates. DALTON'S Chem. Philos. part ii. p. 299.

4615. [21.] Without experience, it would be astonishing to observe how widely men are divided in their opinions of the same things. This opposition of sentiment is no where so evident as in cases where religion is concerned. I do not speak here of points of speculation, but of practical truths, of matters of fact, of actions and their consequences,

of the most important concerns of human life. Thus the ambitious man persuades himself that the object of his pursuit is real honor and dignity; while another, viewing it with the cool and enlightened eye of religion, sees that it is nothing but delusion and deceit. He whose heart is inflamed with the thirst of gain, and who devotes himself to the pursuit of it, imagines all the while that this is nothing but a just foresight and wise provision for the time to come; while religion pronounces it to be altogether vanity and vexation of spirit. Amongst the numerous instances that might be produced, the opposition betwixt the sentiments inspired by religion, and those by the love of sensual pleasure, is the most palpable of all. The sensual man is apt, with an air of triumph, to boast of his superiority above the man of temperance and piety, as if himself were by far the happier of the two, and indeed, sole master of the true taste of life; while, in the other's judgment, he is so far from knowing how to live, that he is in truth dead! dead, in the most melancholy signification of the word! To be carnally minded, says the Gospel, is Death.

DRYSDALE.

4616. [—— 24. No man can serve two masters] Yet in the present sectarian church, men will not suffer you to be a Christian merely, but you must also be a Calvinist, a Lutheran, a Methodist, or a Swedenborgian!

4612. — 15.] He forgives us our sins; but not by word of mouth, by any sort of temporal pardon, or only by forbearing retaliation or punishment, but by taking away the very guilt and pollution of sin out of the soul.

Bp. BROWNE's Divine Analogy, p. 334.

4613. [19.] In Sweden the larva of a small fly, which LINNEUS calls musca frit, lives in the ears of barley, and destroys, he says, at least every tenth grain, to the great loss of the husbandman.

4617. The plain meaning of Mammon, is riches; of Rakah, cursed wretch; of Belial, one that will not be subject to any law.

Essay for a New Translation, p. 4.

4618. [――――26.] The caterpillar weaves its covering in autumn, to pass in comfort a winter which it has never known, and leaves an opening in it to go out as a butterfly in spring, a season of which it can have no knowledge. St. PIERRE'S Harmonies of Nat. vol. iii. p. 4.

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4622. [Matt. vii. 4. First cast the mote out of thy own eye] As all political evils derive their original from moral, these can never be removed, until those are first amended. He, therefore, who strictly adheres to virtue and sobriety in his conduct, and enforces them by his example, does more real service to a state than he who displaces a bad minister, or dethrones a tyrant; this gives but a temporary relief, but that extirminates the cause of the disease.

Works of SOAME, JENYNS, vol. i. p. 139.

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and so perfect was the resemblance, that they could hardly be distinguished by the eye from nature; especially as the color was imitated to the greatest perfection, some represented the yellow maize, some the white; and in others the grains seemed as if smoke-dried by the length of time they had been kept in their houses. ULLOA'S Voy.-to South America, vol. i. p. 465.

4626. [Matt. vii. 10.] Origen says in express terms that St. Matthew wrote in Hebrew: Eusebius says the same, not only where he quotes from other writers, but where he speaks in his own person, and where he speaks professedly on the subject. See Marsh's MICHAELIS, vol. iii. part i. p. 135.

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-13.] In the spiritual world there are actually ways which tend to every society of heaven, and to every society of hell. (SWEDENBORG, on Divine Providence, n. 60.) - This may be understood when it is considered, that in the absorbent system of the Grand Man of heaven, as also of the monstrous form of hell, there are spiracles of egress and spiracles of ingress for two contrary effluxes and influxes from and to heaven and hell through the intermediate world of departed souls, down to us men here on earth; and that hell being the nearer to us and grosser in its interceding fluxes, has necessarily wider gates and broader ways than those which lead to the supernal life and interior glory of heaven.

See Swedenborg, Arcana, n. 3477.

4628. [ 15. In sheep's clothing] In shepherd's clothing. Christianity Unveiled.

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make for him, are dignified as facts; and the strongest facts, if they militate against him, are degraded as surmises. Thus a castle in the air is first formed, and then search is made for a foundation to support it.

WALKER'S Essays on Natural History, and
Rural Economy, p. 337.

4631. [Matt. vii. 29.] When the scribes delivered any thing to the people, they used to say, "Our rabbins, or our wise men, say so," But Christ spoke boldly, as from himself, and did not tamely support his doctrine by the testimony of the elders.

See GILL, in loco.

4632. [Matt. viii. 2.] The leprosy was an inveterate cutaneous disease, appearing in dry, thin, white, scurfy scales, either on the whole body, or on some part of it, usually attended with violent itching, and often with great pain. The eastern leprosy was a distemper of the most loathsome kind, highly contagious, so as to infect garments (Lev. xiii. 47, &c.), and houses (Lev. xiv. 34, &c.), and was deemed incurable by any human means. Dr. MEAD mentions a remarkable case of this kind which came under his observation: "A countryman whose whole body was so miserably seized with it that his skin was shining as covered with flakes of snow; and as the furfuraceous or bran-like scales were daily rubbed off, the flesh appeared quick or raw underneath."

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See his Medica Sacra, ch. ii.

The use of swine's flesh, in union with ardent spirits, is in all likelihood, the grand cause of the scurvy, which is so common in the British nations, and which would probably assume the form and virulence of a leprosy, were our climate as hot as that of Judea.

Dr. A. CLARKE, in loco.

4633. [4.] God never wrought a miracle to convince atheists; because in his visible works He had placed enow to do it, if they were not wanting to themselves.

Sir FRANCIS BACON, as quoted by The
Honourable Robert Boyle, in his
Christian Virtuoso, p. 8.

4634. [ 28.] These burying grounds frequently afford shelter to the weary traveller when overtaken by the night; and their recesses are also a hiding-place for thieves and murderers, who sally out from thence to commit their nocturnal depredations.

FORBES' Orient. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 102.

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