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 . enience, theycan cast themselves into the sea.—Roberts. Ver. 18. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Whenthou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, andwalkedst whither thouwouldst: but when thoushall be old, thou shall stretch forth thy hands,and another shall gird thee, and carry theewhither thou wouldst not. It
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 . enience, theycan cast themselves into the sea.—Roberts. Ver. 18. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Whenthou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, andwalkedst whither thouwouldst: but when thoushall be old, thou shall stretch forth thy hands,and another shall gird thee, and carry theewhither thou wouldst not. It was customarj in the ancient combats for the van-quished person to stretch out his hands lo the conqueror,signifying that he declined the battle, yielded the victory,and submitted to the direction of the victor. So, Tumusin Virgil: Vicisti et victiim tenrterepalmas . Ausonii videre,—Mn. lib. xii. 1. 936. You have overcome, and the have seen thyvanquished foe stretch forth his suppliant hands. To thiscustom our Lord alludes in his prediction to Peter: When tiiou shall be old, thou shall stretch forth thyhands, and another shall gird thee. The aged apostlewas to stretch out his hands as a token of submission lothat power under which he would fall and perish,—
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