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Curious Particulars Relative To The Jews.
the tale of their redemption out of E g 3 pt . When this is reading , they have , among many other things on the table , a cake , called apheckoman , a piece of which they carry about them , from one passover to another , as a preventive of misfortunes : and they say , and believe , that if a man at sea throws a part of this apheckoman over board , it will appease the most violent tempest ! ! ! On the seventh da } 7 of the month of Shan they have a holiday
, called sheboohoth , i . e . -weeks , because it is celebrated seven weeks after the first day of their passover . Fide Levit . xxiii . 16 . They sa } 7 , that it was on this day the Lord delivered unto Moses the five books of the law . The 3 7 also say , that the Lord offered to give his holy law to every one of the other nations separately ; and none of them would accept
of it , fearful it might be too difficult for them to observe ; but as soon as God offered it to them , through Moses , the ) 7 accepted of it ; but still the Almighty , mistrusting that they might change their minds , when they came to receive it from Moses , at the bottom of Mount Sinai , the Lord ( as the story goes among them ) raised the Mount , so as to hang over their heads like the roof of a house , and told them ,
if they would receive his law , it was well ; if not , he would let fail the Mount upon them , and they should all be buried under it : upon which , they all cried out , " We will obey it , and heart it ;"—in Hebrew , Nagasaywynisbniaugb ; for which reason of their promising to obey first , before they asked to hear it , the Lord was pleased to restore the Mount to its own place , and delivered the law to them with cheerfulness . [ TO BE CONTINUED . ]]
Miscellaneous Observations And Reflections Made In A Tour Through London,
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A TOUR THROUGH LONDON ,
IN DECE . MBKIC 1784 . BY W . BUTTON , OF BIRMINGHAM , F . S . A . SCO .
( CONTINUED FROM VOL . VI . P . 246 . ) LONDON STONE . THERE are situations , justifiable in themselves , in which a man may be ashamed to be found . Every man acts , in private , what he ridicules in public . The error oni } ' consists in the discovery . It is not possible for the antiquary to pass byunnoticedso
extra-, , ordinary an object as London Stone . It is not possible to find out its precise meaning . The small information received from history , and the smaller from tradition , prove its great antiquity . This curiosity is as little regarded as known . The numerous crowd of passengers take less notice of this stone , than of those upon which they tread . My enquiries were answered with a supercilious smile ; and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Curious Particulars Relative To The Jews.
the tale of their redemption out of E g 3 pt . When this is reading , they have , among many other things on the table , a cake , called apheckoman , a piece of which they carry about them , from one passover to another , as a preventive of misfortunes : and they say , and believe , that if a man at sea throws a part of this apheckoman over board , it will appease the most violent tempest ! ! ! On the seventh da } 7 of the month of Shan they have a holiday
, called sheboohoth , i . e . -weeks , because it is celebrated seven weeks after the first day of their passover . Fide Levit . xxiii . 16 . They sa } 7 , that it was on this day the Lord delivered unto Moses the five books of the law . The 3 7 also say , that the Lord offered to give his holy law to every one of the other nations separately ; and none of them would accept
of it , fearful it might be too difficult for them to observe ; but as soon as God offered it to them , through Moses , the ) 7 accepted of it ; but still the Almighty , mistrusting that they might change their minds , when they came to receive it from Moses , at the bottom of Mount Sinai , the Lord ( as the story goes among them ) raised the Mount , so as to hang over their heads like the roof of a house , and told them ,
if they would receive his law , it was well ; if not , he would let fail the Mount upon them , and they should all be buried under it : upon which , they all cried out , " We will obey it , and heart it ;"—in Hebrew , Nagasaywynisbniaugb ; for which reason of their promising to obey first , before they asked to hear it , the Lord was pleased to restore the Mount to its own place , and delivered the law to them with cheerfulness . [ TO BE CONTINUED . ]]
Miscellaneous Observations And Reflections Made In A Tour Through London,
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A TOUR THROUGH LONDON ,
IN DECE . MBKIC 1784 . BY W . BUTTON , OF BIRMINGHAM , F . S . A . SCO .
( CONTINUED FROM VOL . VI . P . 246 . ) LONDON STONE . THERE are situations , justifiable in themselves , in which a man may be ashamed to be found . Every man acts , in private , what he ridicules in public . The error oni } ' consists in the discovery . It is not possible for the antiquary to pass byunnoticedso
extra-, , ordinary an object as London Stone . It is not possible to find out its precise meaning . The small information received from history , and the smaller from tradition , prove its great antiquity . This curiosity is as little regarded as known . The numerous crowd of passengers take less notice of this stone , than of those upon which they tread . My enquiries were answered with a supercilious smile ; and