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Show ()I-' their 'BurialJ. LIB: Vl. - llf:2· '1 • Anceftors then would they -.. .received not from thett h fdves ~for the burial of purchafe a bu~ial pl~fe t ~~e forU: of that place was them and thetr famt y. ewed out in a l·ock, (i"~ fix cu. ;.,-,,aN '1 thus: It was a vau~ h d in which eight other cells ww 1'tJ bits long, and four roa 'Ci thirteen) were made' ~NAlm~tl ;;::~:or Iefler hole_s \ o~as fomet"calye's or tombs for the dead et·'" . r:. dt{hn'"'a: recep u , • h ttthr•· ,ap. 6 •. as ~~ many. .. din. as often as they buned any ,t ey bod tes to be !at U • . tjlone t e the me 11th oft he cave. were wont toro 4_greaf the termed from the aCt of The cave or vaulttt fe~. h G~nifieth a place ofburial, burial, ( 4 ) Keber, w tc a den or cave. Thefe fe· or from its form,(l) "[a&~arahich the body was laid, veral cells or recept~c es ~~a:es .. ·tombs: . and the /lone they called(m) '"rz;'' r~Jlingflone. This giveth great they named (_n)Go e '~r; 1 J {eph took the body of . light to that tn the 0£.Pe. · a ~lean linnen cloth, and QhriJ! ? a~d· wrappe lt :hich he had hewen out in put Jt tn hts ne; ~mb:ea#ft~neto the door of the SeJltl!· a rock, and ro e ag Theie caves or vait/ts the weaichre) Mal.l7·5a~60: arnijh and beautifte ·at the thicr fort' woul patnt,fghem .' hence cometh that mouth or enterance o t ai;led tombs. As-often as -Fhrafe, St.JJNlchrfia .dealb.at:~~ion or flpeak. of any friend h had a occa lon tom b rrr. t ey h ofed that in the Prover s, ~ne memo~J dcceafed, t ey . 1 Hence the Rabbie1, tn ofthejufl is b!eflerl, ~"~~ o:~rthy Author deceafed, '"11~111 . their quotauons ~.'a honourable commemoration . ., M3i:l? . • ufually fubjoyn t ~~ N 'uc!D orfoch a one of b!effid Jrf~mona t~u N Bent dill~. memort~, , J' f;t. '"bene d.•· • , cffio~~wl memorJ. . . {1 \ E ita ph or infcription upon .thetr M~ \il l\nn But thetr u ua p) Ltl thh foul be bound. up 1n the 1jJ. 0:1 Scpulch~n, was' (f h b die oif I he ./ivi,g, llmuJ.) n1o NN ~ Garden Df Ed1n, or .'n I · ~ '"' · . shti~lcr ,,,. ,_ .Am~n .Af!len, selatr~ . The. >:11.\ ) - . , L 1 B. V l. Of their Bnria/J. ·T he latter Jeuu have been firangely conceitedf co ncerning the place of burials, and are perf waded. that if an IfraeliJe be buried in any ftrange country, out of the promifed Land, he iliall not be partaker . fo much as of Refurrection, except the Lord vonch-fafe to make him hollow pt~jfogeJ~ under the earth, tho-row which his body by a continual volutation and rolling, may be brought into the land of f:ll1laan. The ground hereof is taken from the charge of J.ac~h nn· . . to his fon Jofeph, that he iliould not bury h1m tn the land ofEgJpl,but inCana41.t. (q) For which charge q~dom.Jar .. they affign three reafocs. Firft, becaufe he forefaw cbtJit"·• 7· 2; by the fpirit of Prophecy, that the dutl: of that land fuould afterward be turned into lice. Stco11dlj, ·be-caufe thofe who died out of the holy Land £honld not rife again wit.hout a painful rolling and tum:: .rGen;e,, q~ta{: bling of -their bodies thorow thofe boHow paffages. d~tm corpr;r,, '(hirdlj , that the EgJftia1ls might not idolatroufly parr;'","' ~ut . h. 11eraoa1 , 'Vor worflu p 1m. Ali•• incide- They made a feaft at their burials, which is Oiled bant lltra,tn· · · The hrett d ifm en, E'ze"Lt . 14. r 7. An d a c11p ofc ~nfolatto. 11, ,t1,1,m~FqJ1a11t1 fro, ;qtrr-ol Jer .16. 7. becaufe it was admioiftred to comfort thofc in cult1tm '~ that were fad of heart It much refembled the Ro111an m•n~tm [llo~·~· . . . • fi,bttt, pr.tcrpr:: Stltcerntum~ tur ~rgo ne 11/h From thofe two pl~ces I aft "UOted, we may ob- paaa ficut. ferve, t hI t at the burt.a l Of th"e"1l. f fri• ends, they Uf cC d gceanrntee1J {UfeArItr Je nt thefc ceremonies which follow; fometo teftifie, fome qutmttdmodl(m to a11-gmentt he ·u .gn•e f. r. C11tlt.n g t he mr feil 1Jes, t h·a tt•s ~ fhaeclered1o&t d1t c~, .. . wounding or cutting any part of their body, with a- s. ror11m~ r.r re; ny kind oflnfirument. ( r) This practice was learned ferr Lue~a,u from t he He~ttn,_ enJ, wh o were wont not on Iy to fcc rate h P.... .F..aV gn. tDe11t. 11ihu their face, but to punch and prick certain parrs of ora foror [£ · ~~cir bo~y with a needle, and t~en cover it o~er \vit.h ~:;~~rn;}';~;: Ink, wht.ch they ufed as a fpectal ceremony 1n theu lib. 4 . ..&.nerK ... l i ~ ft.1pttrfiitious ' |
