The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . es of a similar kind, probably without resi-dent occupants, were found upon the main roads even in the days ofthe patriarchs (Gen. xlii. 27; xliii. 21: Exod. iv. 24). Both are stillfound in the East; the former called khans, and the latter, caravan-seras. When a person died, his relations rent their garments from head tofoot; a smaller rent being made by spectators : hired mourners oftenadded to the expressions of grief by their lamentations and music ( 17, 18 : Matt. ix. 23 : Acts ix. 39). Embalming was common, tho
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . es of a similar kind, probably without resi-dent occupants, were found upon the main roads even in the days ofthe patriarchs (Gen. xlii. 27; xliii. 21: Exod. iv. 24). Both are stillfound in the East; the former called khans, and the latter, caravan-seras. When a person died, his relations rent their garments from head tofoot; a smaller rent being made by spectators : hired mourners oftenadded to the expressions of grief by their lamentations and music ( 17, 18 : Matt. ix. 23 : Acts ix. 39). Embalming was common, though,except in Egypt, the process seems to have consisted of little else thananointing the body with odoriferous drugs and wrapping it in linen. funeral followed death within twenty-four hours; the body notbeing placed in a coffin, but closely wrapped from head to foot on anopen bier, and so borne to the place of burial, which was always, ex-in tt i case of kings and distinguished men, at some distance fromty. For the poor, there was a common burial ground ; but fami-. CUSTOMo—MISCELLANEOUS. 291 lies had often their sepulchres in their own fields or gardens. Therewas no particular ceremonial at the grave, but the day was concludedby a funeral feast (2 Sam. iii. 35 : Hos. ix. 4.). Mourning was expressedafterwards by rent clothes and sackcloth, sometimes by a shroudedface, and sometimes by dust sprinkled upon the head (2 8am. iii. 31;xix. 4: Job ii. 12). The graves were generally dug in the rocks, withniches all round, each holding a corpse (Job x. 21, 22; xxxiii. 18 . 6: Isa. xiv. 9-19; xxxviii. 10: Ezek. xxxii. 18).* Crucifixion was the punishment of slaves only, or of those uponwhom it was intended to fix the deepest ignominy. It was not a Jew-ish punishment, nor was it inflicted upon a Roman citizen. Thus Christwas delivered to the Gentiles, and numbered with the wicked in hisdeath, Matt. xx. 19. At the feast of tabernacles, the people ( on the last day of the
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