Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . -^<ss;-3r„ BETlILEHFI\r. Hatt. 3:4. Pii«eS7«.. Chap. 4. MATTHEW. 577 heart, and the less honourable parts of the human upper girdle was sometimes made of leather, the ma-terial of which the girdle of John the Baptist was made;but it was more commonly fabricated of worsted, oftenvery arllully wov
Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . -^<ss;-3r„ BETlILEHFI\r. Hatt. 3:4. Pii«eS7«.. Chap. 4. MATTHEW. 577 heart, and the less honourable parts of the human upper girdle was sometimes made of leather, the ma-terial of which the girdle of John the Baptist was made;but it was more commonly fabricated of worsted, oftenvery arllully woven into a variety of figures, and madeto fold several times about the body; one end of whichbeing doubled back, and sewn along the edges, servesthem for a purse, agreeably to the acceptation of (ufti inthe scriptures, which is translated purse in several placesof the New Testament.—Paxton. The dress of John greatly resembled that of the interiornations of South Africa, only substituting a skin cloak forone of camels hair; and his food that of the wild Bush-men during the locust season. Locusts resemble giganticgrasshoppers furnished with wings. When they come,like innumerable armies, they certainly destroy all vegeta-tion ; but their are sufficient for the support ofhuman life. The wild Bushmen kill millions of them,w
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