Description - Observations on Various Passages of Scripture Placing Them in a New Light Volume 1; In Four Volumes by Thomas Harmer
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...the white doves mentioned by Tibullus were consecrated, the superstition of consecrating that animal to her might, very possibly, be as ancient as the time of the Psalmist, as also the adorning them with gold; and that he alludes to these circumstances here. Israel is to me as a consecrated dove, and though your circumstances have made you rather appear like a poor dove, blackened by taking up its abode in a smoky hole of the rocks; yet shall you become beautiful and glorious as a Syrian silvercoloured pigeon, on whom some ornament of gold is put. P. 91. See also p. 143. + P. ig7. t Or Ashtaroth, Judges ii. 13, &c. Ps. Ixxir. 19. OBSERVATION XVIII. Caves frequent Places of Lodging for the Shepherds in the Holy Land. The Bishop of Waterford has remarked on Zeph. ii. 6. that many manuscripts, and three editions, have a single letter in one of its words more than appears in the common editions, which, instead of cherith, gives us a word which signifies caves; and he remarks, that if we adopt this sense, the words must be rendered, " And the sea-coast shall be sheep-cotes, ." Caves for shepherds, and folds for flocks." To this I must add, that this seems to be much the most natural reading. I was just now taking notice, that the Eastern shepherds make use of caves very frequently; sleeping in them, and driving also their flocks into them at night. What I would add here is, that the mountains bordering on the Syrian coast are remarkable for the number of caves in them; and that they are found, in particular, in the neighbourhood of Ashkelon. Thus we find, in the History of the Croisades, by the Archbishop of Tyre, that that active prince Baldwin I. after the death of his brother Godfrey, and before his own coronation, presented him...
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