The book A Critical And Exegetical Commentary On Numbers was written by author George Buchanan Gray Here you can read free online of A Critical And Exegetical Commentary On Numbers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Critical And Exegetical Commentary On Numbers a good or bad book?
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It was believed that if anyone fed himself with his own hands after touching the sacred person of a superior chief, or anything that belonged to him, he would swell up and die ; the sanctity of the chief, like a virulent poison, infected the hands of his inferior, and, being communicated through them to the food, proved fatal to the eater . , . Until the ceremony of expiation or disinfection had been performed, if he wished to eat, he had either to get some one to feed him, or else to go down o...n his knees and pick up the food from the ground with his mouth like a beast" (p. 319 f. )- *' In New Zealand the dread of the sanctity of chiefs was at least as great as in Tonga. Their ghostly power, derived from an ancestral spirit or atua, diffused itself by contagion over everything they touched, and could strike dead all who rashly or unwittingly meddled with it" (p. 321). ''The garments of a high New Zealand chief will kill anyone else who wears them " (p. 322). ** In general, we may say that the prohibition to use the vessels, garments, and so on of certain persons, and the effects supposed to follow an infraction of the rule, are exactly the same whether the person to whom the things belong are sacred or what we might call unclean and polluted" (p.
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