. Notes, explanatory and practical, on the Gospels: designed for Sunday school teachers and Bible classes . 5. Their phylacteries. The wordphylactery comes from a word signify-ing to keep, preserve, or guard. Thename was given because phylacterieswere worn as amulets or charms, andwere supposed to defend them fromevil. They were small shps of parch-ment or vellum, on which were writtencertain portions of the Old practice of using phylacteries wasfounded on a hteral interpretation ofthat passage where God commands theHebrews to have the law as a sign ontheir foreheads, and as fron
. Notes, explanatory and practical, on the Gospels: designed for Sunday school teachers and Bible classes . 5. Their phylacteries. The wordphylactery comes from a word signify-ing to keep, preserve, or guard. Thename was given because phylacterieswere worn as amulets or charms, andwere supposed to defend them fromevil. They were small shps of parch-ment or vellum, on which were writtencertain portions of the Old practice of using phylacteries wasfounded on a hteral interpretation ofthat passage where God commands theHebrews to have the law as a sign ontheir foreheads, and as frontlets be-tween their eyes. (Ex. xiii. 16. iii. 1, 3; vi. 21.) One kind ofphylactery was called a frontlet, andwas composed of four pieces of parch-ment ; on the first of which was writ-ten, Ex. xii. 2—10; on the second, 11—21; on the third, Deut. vi. 4—9 ; and on the fourth, Deut. xi. 18— pieces of parchment, thus in-scribed, they enclosed in a piece oftough skin, making a square, on oneside of which is placed the Hebrew let-ter shin, V), and bound them round their. foreheads with a thong or riband, whenthey went to the synagogue. Somewore them evening and morning; andothers only at the morning prayer. As the token upon the hand, was re-quired, as well as the frontlets betweenthe eyes, the Jews made two rolls ofparchment, written in square letters,with an ink made on purpose, and with 6 And Move the uppermost roomsat feasts, and the chief seats in thesynagogues, c ,&c. ,&c. much care. They were rolled up to apoint, and enclosed in a sort of case ofblack calfskin. They were put upon asquare bit of the same leather, whence
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