The following prayer, which is used on entering the synagogue on the morning of a fastday, has something both solemn and affecting in it. The original is in a kind of unequal verse, the endings of which rhyme to each other. "I come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercies, and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy temple, "The tribe of Judah is oppressed, and in distress and shall the lion still continue to roar in the forest? The father and the children, the poor and the needy, with hope, wait for thy salvation.-O stand in the breach, and suffer us not to become a derision! Why standest thou afar off, O LORD! thy people are brought even to the gates of death. O thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth! grant us help and deliver us from the adversary. Is the power of the LORD limited ?-Renew our days in this long captivity! Awake, why dost thou slumber, O GOD!-Remember thy children in a land not their own; nor suffer aliens to approach them to their hurt! Reveal unto thy people who sit solitary, the happy period of their restoration! Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad! Let our supplications ascend to the highest heavens, Q GOD, the king, who sittest on the throne of compassion!" INDEX. ABRAHAM a sort of king, 26; numerous servants, 27; Adam, probably the first who offered a sacrifice, 304, note. Age, the first foundation of authority, 174. Alienation of lands revoked every fifty years among the Altars erected for memorials of great events, 25. Altaschith, what, 247. Angel of the church, what it signifies, 337, in the note, Animals used in sacrifice, 308; manner of killing such, Animals, different, eaten and abstained from among diffe. Apocrypha books of, considered canonical by the Catholics, Apostles among the Jews, their office, 220. Arabic language abounds in obscene terms, 128. Arms, all persons capable of using them, ecclesiastics as Arts, curious ones among the Hebrews, 64, 64. Arure of land, how much, 58, Asmoneans, see Maccabees. Athenians, how at first divided, 38. Astrology, several eminent ladies addicted to, 164. Ayeen Akberi quoted, 240. Ayeleth Shahar, what, 246. Babylon, the fertility of its plains, 49. Bakers, when first at Rome, 67. Balsam-tree only found anciently in Palestine 55. Baptism administered to proselytes, 272; how performed, Bathing, why frequent in the east, 77. Beards long, worn by the Israelites, 77. Bedsteads in the east, often of ivory, and placed against the wall, 80. Bells in churches of modern invention, 147. Bissextile how computed, 299, 300. Books now lost referred to in the Old Testament, 110. Bread, how much per day a man eats, 87; very little bread Breast-plate, 334. Britons, ancient, their dress, 21. Burial, the manner of it among the Israelites, 135, 136; Byssus, what it was, 75. Cakes of libation, 311; called nakudeem, or perforated 85. Canaan, the Israelites prohibited from marrying with his Canopies, the use of them in the east, 80. Caoinian, or ancient funeral cry among the Irish, 136. Cavalry of little use in mountainous countries, 188; for- Children of this world-of darkness-light, &c. whence Christians eat too often, 88. Church, whence the word, 177. Cicero, what he means by Jewish gold, 220. Circumcision practised by many nations besides Jews, 94; Cities in Judea, the habitation of labourers, and very Cleanliness, its importance, 90. Cloaks a sort of military dress, 74. Clothes of the ancients injudiciously represented by most Corban, what, 318. Council of seventy-two and the highpriest at Jerusalem, Country-people, the cause of their misery, 44. Courts of judicature among the Romans at the forum, of Craftsmen, valley of, 69. Crusades laid waste the Holy Land, 54. Cubit, two sorts mentioned in Scripture, 140. Cynara, what, 11. Day, how divided by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, Dancing in use among the Israelites, 117, 118. Daughters of the patriarchs bred to hard labour, 30. Death of the patriarchs, how described in Scripture, 33. Decapolis, described, 284. Deism of a Jewish Rabbi, 364. Dice invented by the Lydians, 131. Diet of the ancient Israelites, 84. Divorce, ill consequences of it, 106; when first heard of at Rome. ib. Dress of the Hebrews, 71; of the English, 21. Eastern fashions change little, 74; their compliments more Edom, what it signifies, 281. Egypt, physic supposed to have been invented there, 33; Elders of Israel, the Jewish sanhedrim, 174, 175, 221; Elijah, meaning of the name, 39. Embalming practised by the Israelites as well as Egyp Eponymi, what, 38. Ephod described, 334. Equinox, what, 296–298. Essenes, their manner of life, 226. Ethnarchs, what meant by them, 221. Eumeus described by Homer making his own shoes, 68, Evenings, two, what, 291. Fashions, see Clothes. Fathers among the Israelites had power of life and death Fasts proclaimed by sound of trumpet, as well as feasts, Feasts, religious, the number of them among the Israelites, Feet, custom of washing them at visits, 77; to water and Fire-places, 82. First-fruits, 319. Fisk scarce eaten in the most ancient times either by Israel, Fleury, Abbé, his life, ix.-xvi. his concluding account of his own work, 233, Forces, see Militia, |