. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . the error that alms deliver from death(Tob. iv. 10). The book is of no historical value, andtends to beget a weak, indiscriminating moral feeling, en-courage self-righteousness, and cherish superstition \ (Prof. J. G. Murphy, in Fbn.). Tola-ites (fr. Heb.), the = the descendants of Tolathe son of Issachar (Num. xxvi. 26). Tolba-nes [-neez] (Gr.) = Telem, a porter inEzras time (1 Esd. ix. 25). Tomb. The sepulchral rites of the Jews (Burial)were marked with the same simplicity that charac-terized all their religious observances (so Mr, Fer-gusson, orig
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . the error that alms deliver from death(Tob. iv. 10). The book is of no historical value, andtends to beget a weak, indiscriminating moral feeling, en-courage self-righteousness, and cherish superstition \ (Prof. J. G. Murphy, in Fbn.). Tola-ites (fr. Heb.), the = the descendants of Tolathe son of Issachar (Num. xxvi. 26). Tolba-nes [-neez] (Gr.) = Telem, a porter inEzras time (1 Esd. ix. 25). Tomb. The sepulchral rites of the Jews (Burial)were marked with the same simplicity that charac-terized all their religious observances (so Mr, Fer-gusson, original author of this article). This sim-plicity of rite led to what may be called the distin-guishing characteristic of Jewish sepulchres—thedeeploculus (L. literally a little place, i. e. a littlechamber, cell, or recess)—which, so far as is nowknown, is universal in all purely Jewish rock-cuttombs, but hardly known elsewhere. Its form willbe understood by referring to the annexed diagram,representing the forms of Jewish sepulture. In. Diagram of Jewish Sopulcbre. the apartment marked A, are twelve such locn/i,about two feet wide by three feet high. On theground-floor these generally open on the level ofthe floor; when in the upper story, as at C, on aledge or platform, on which the body might be laidto be anointed, and on which the stones might restwhich closed the outer end of each loculus. Theshallow loculus, shown in chamber B, but apparentlyonly used when sarcophagi were employed, and,therefore, so far as we know, only in the Greco-Ro-man period, would have been inappropriate, where anunembalmed body was laid out to decay—as therewould evidently be no means of shutting it off fromthe rest of the catacomb. The deep loculus on theother hand was as strictly conformable with Jewishcustoms, and could easily be closed by a stone fittedto the end, and luted into the groove which usuallyexists there. This fact affords a key to much thatis otherwise hard to be understood in c
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