An Introduction to the Critical Study And Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
An Introduction to the Critical Study And Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
Thomas Hartwell Horne
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' Dr. Good's Sacred Idyls, p. 122. * Juwett*s Christian Researches in Syria, &c. pp. 97, 98. * l>r. Good's version. FT 4 Digitized by VjOOQ IC 440 Jetmsh Customs relating to Marriage. born, and whose happiness he was to promote, by that temporal kingdom for which they looked upon his appearance. Hence celibacy was esteemed a great reproach in Israel ; for, be- sides that they thought no one could live a single life without great danger of sin, they esteemed it a counteracting of the divine coun...sels in the promise, that the seed of the tooman should bruise the head of the serpent. On this account it was that Jephthah's daughter deplored her virginity, because she thus deprived her father of the hopes which he might entertain from heirs descended from her, bv whom his name might survive in Israel, and, consequently, of his expectation of having the Messiah to come of his seed, which was the general desire of all the Israelitish women. For the same reason also sterility was regarded among the Jews (as it is to this day among the modem Egyptians* and Hindoos') as one of the greatest misfortunes that could befall any woman, insomuch that to have a child, though the woman immediately died thereupon, was accounted a less affliction than to have none at all ; and to this purpose we may observe, that the midwife comforted Rachel in her labour (even though she knew her to be at the point of death) in these terms.
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