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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART III. OF THE CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. ILLUSTEATIONS OF SCRIPTURE. CHAP. 1. ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE FROM THE PASTORAL LIFE OF THE ORIENTALS. Oriental Shepherds--Their wealth and power.--Manner of life--Flocks and herds--Immense numbers of their cattle.--Their servants. Overseers of their property.--The bad shepherd.-- The good shepherd.-- Wander in search of pasture for their flocks.--Risk their lives in defence of their charge.--Accountable for the flocks under their care--Exposed to all the vicissitudes of the seasons.-- Their great skill, vigilance, and care in the management of their flocks.--Providing water for their flocksDigging wells.--Covering their mouth with a stone--Wells extremely valuable--To fill them up an act of hostility. DEGREESRobbers lurk near them-- Shepherd1s implements--His vestments--His bag or scrip--Hi* staff and crook--His arms.--Scene of the parable of the good Samaritan.----Time of pasturing the flocks.--Manner of conducting them.--Devoted a part of their leisure to music--Sometimes lodged in caves.--Their tents.--Furniture and utensils of their tents--Their coverings of different colours.-- Their huts and booths--Their hospitality.--Their sheep-cotes.--.Sheepwashing.--Sheep-shearing--A time of general hilarity--Making butter. --Coagulating milk.-- Trade with the neighbouring cities--Engage a little in agriculture.--Formed alliances with their neighbours--Amused themselves by hunting--Shepherds an abomination to the Egyptians. The first man was no sooner expelled from the garden of Eden for his breach of covenant, and doomed to earn his bread with the sweat of his brow, than he attempted to reduce the more useful animals under his yoke; and with so much success, that the sacred historian marks it as the prope


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154186956
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154186954
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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