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. Agriculture, see Husbandry. Alienation of lands revoked every fifty years among the Israelites; 61. 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. Bedsteads in the east, often of ivory, and placed against 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. Chazan, who, 337. Children of this world-of darkness-light, &c. whence the expressions, 37; increase of them desired by the Is. 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 Confession of faith, 341-345. 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 courts of Lords' castles, 178, 179. 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, 289, 290. David, his riches, 192. Dancing in use among the Israelites, 117, 118. Daughters of the patriarchs bred to hard labour, 30. 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 significs, 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 Forces, see Militia. Fruits brought into Europe from Asia and Africa, have degenerated, 55. Fruitfulness of the promised land, 53, 54, 55. Funerals among the Hebrews, 135, 136. Gadara described, 285. Galilees, two of them, 282. Galileans were the first who received the Gospel, 283. Games of hazard unknown to the Israelites, and forbidden Gate of the city, courts of judicature held there, 178. Germans introduced on this side of the Rhine the love of Gittith, what, 245; among, 168. Government of the Israelites, what the form of it, 168, Gout, king Asa blamed for trusting in physicians to cure Greek proper names explained, 40. Greeks, ancient, employed in breeding cattle, 30; seem to Greek tongue learnt by the Jews, especially of Alexan- Greek and Gentile, whence the same, 209. Gregorian Style, 300. Habits of the priests, 331; ditto of the high-priest, 333. Handmaids, who they were, 34. Hazanim, who, 221. Hebrew, the genius of the language, 110, 111; lost by Hebrews by birth, 268. Hecatæus, a fragment of his concerning the extent of Pa. lestine explained, 58, 59. Hedayah quoted, 241, 261. Heiresses, obliged to marry within their own tribe and |