Bread, how much per day a man eats, 38. very little bread
kept among the Israelites, 46. the word used in Scripture
means all sorts of victuals, 61.
Burial, the manner of it among the Israelites, 106, 107. no
religious ceremony used at it, 107.
Byssus, what it was, 52.
Cakes of libation, 237-
Calends, what, 225.
Canaan, the Israelites prohibited from marrying with his de-
scendants, 19, 70. Canaanites the same with Phoenicians,
44. their tribes, 206, 207.
Canopies, the use of them in the east, 56.
Captivity of the ten tribes above a hundred years before that
of the other two, 164. the consequences of captivity an
tiently, and of Israel and Judah in particular, 165, 166. the
restoration of Judah from it, 167. much reformed by it, 169.
Eow long after it before they could rebuild their city and
temple, ib. see also 208.
Castration of cattle prohibited to the Israelites, 41.
Cato the censor writes of country affairs, 27. his opinion of
the pastoral life, 12. a maxim in his book the same with
one in Prov. xxiv. 27. p. 32.
Cavalry of little use in mountainous countries, 154. forbid-
den to the Israelites, though much used in Egypt, 155. nu-
merous however in Solomon's time, ib.
Ceremonies, some borrowed from the Jewish church, 200.
Calosyria described, 214.
Children of this world-of darkness-light, &c. whence the
expressions, 18. increase of them desired by the Israelites,
76, 77. how numerous in some families, 77, 78-
Chimneys amongst the antients little known, 57
Cicero, what he means by Jewish gold, 184.
Circumcision practised by many nations besides Jews, 69. per-
formed in private houses without the ministry of priests, 76.
Circumcision the seal of the covenant, 200.
Cities in Judea, the habitation of labourers, and very numerous,
146. their gates the seats of justice, b. at first built by
wicked men, II.
Clothes of the antients injudiciously represented by most pain-
ters, 49, 50. fashions of them little changed in the east, 52.
ill consequences of their change, 51. of white colour most
in use among the Israelites, Greeks, and Romans, 53. made
generally among them all very plain, ib. of the women more
sumptuous, 55.
Concubines
Concubines, though generally slaves, yet, to keep them not
reckoned disreputable, 79. ill consequences from the use
of them, 80.
Confession of faith, 265–267.
Corban, what, 243.
Council of Seventy-one and the highpriest at Jerusalem, and of
Twenty-three in the smaller cities, their power, 145. kept
their court at the gate of the city, 146. continued while
the Jews were subject to the Persians, 170, and to the Ro-
mans, 185.
Country-people, the cause of their misery, 24.
Courts of judicature among the Romans at the forum, of the
Israelites at the city gates, in feudal times at the courts of
Lords' castles, 146.
Crusades laid waste the Holy Land, 34.
Day, how divided by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, 216,217.
David, his riches, 159.
Dancing in use among the Israelites, 91.
Daughters of the patriarchs bred to hard labour, 12.
Death of the patriarchs, how described in scripture, 15.
Decapolis described, 212.
Divorce, ill consequences of it, 80. when first heard of at
Rome, ib.
Eastern fashions change little, 51. their compliments more like
ours than those of the Greeks and Romans are, 98. play at
no games of hazard, 102.
Edom, what it signifies, 209.
Egypt, physic supposed to have been invented there, 15. what
food the Egyptians abstained from, 62. Solon, Pythagoras,
and Plato, studied there, 171. becoming an addition to the
Roman power hastened the ruin of the Jewish, 181.
Elders of Israel the Jewish sanhedrim, 142, 185. the seat of
the elders, what meant by it, 144. number of, ib.
Embalming practised by the Israelites as well as Egyptians, 106,
Eponymi, what, 19.
Ephod described, 258.
Equinox, what, 226, 227.
Essenes, their manner of life, 189.
Ethnarchs, what meant by them, 185.
Eunuchs, servants about the king's person, without denoting
personal imperfection, 151.
Evenings two, what, 217.
Fashious, see Clothes.
Fathers among the Israelites had power of life and death over
their children, 140. but under the direction of the magis-
trate, 141. The same law practised at Athens, ib.
Fasts proclaimed by sound of trumpet, as well as feasts, 119.
how many stated ones, 119, 120.
Feasts, religious, the number of them among the Israelites,
117, 135. were times of sensible joy, 118.
Feet, custom of washing them at visits, 54. to water and to
cover the feet, what meant by it, 99.
Fish scarce eaten in the most antient times either by Israelites
or Grecians, 61.
Fruits brought into Europe from Asia and Africa have de
generated, 34.
Fruitfulness of the Promised Land, 33, 34, 35:
Gadara described, 212.
Galilees, two of them, 210.
Galileans were the first who received the gospel, 210.
Games of hazard unknown to the Israelites, and forbidden by
the Arabians to this day, 102.
Gate of the city, courts of judicature held there, 146.
Genealogies of Matthew and Luke, how reconciled, 78.
Genesareth, lake of, 213.
Germans introduced on this side of the Rhine the love of hunt-
ing, 27. and will always retain it, 186.
Globe explained, 224, 225.
Government of the Israelites, what the form of it, 136, &c.
of
the patriarchs, lasted 900 years, 17.
Gout, king Asa blamed for trusting in physicians to cure it, 68.
Greeks, antient, employed in breeding cattle, 8. seem to have
been great eaters, 14. retained a great opinion of husban-
dry in the height of their politeness, 26, joined manufac
tures and trade to it, 43, 44. their wisdom and religion,
127, 128. their worship, 129. improved in sciences nat
till the time of Alexander, 132, 175;
Greek tongue learnt by the Jews, especially of Alexandria, 192,
Greek and Gentile, whence the same, 174.
Habits of the priests, 255. ditto, of the highpriest, 257.
Hacamim, who, 260.
Hebrew, the genius of the language, 83, S4. lost by the Jews
in their captivity, 166.
Hebrews by birth, 197.
Hecateus, a fragment of his concerning the extent of Palestine
explained, 37, 39.
Hellenists, who meant by them in scripture, 174.
Herod's reign, the last period in which the Jews were conside
rable, 182, 183. his tetrarchy, 214.
Hesiod wrote a poem upon husbandry, 26. his manner of
writing, 36.
Historians, the priests only such antiently, 94: excellence of
the Jewish, 96.
Holy Land, names and divisions of, 204. why called Palestine, ib.
Homer referred to, 12, 18, 26. shews his heroes were great
eaters, 14.
Horse, see Cavalry.
Houses, and household furniture, in the east, what, 56.
Hunting in more credit among the moderns than the antients,
27, 28, 186. not followed much by the Israelites, 102.
Husbandry, the employment of the patriarchs, 12. and of the
Israelites afterwards, 25-32. and of other antient nations,
ib. brought into disesteem by the tyranny of the northern
nations, 29.
more useful than what is called learning, 92.
parables in the gospel borrowed from that employ, 186.
Idolatry, the rise of it, 126. the Israelites tempted to it by
their neighbours, 133, Idols, whence called vanity and
abomination, 277.
Fers, a name applied to the kingdom of Judah not till after
the captivity of the ten tribes, 164. less corruption in that
kingdom than in that of Israel, 162. what numbers re-
turned from their captivity, 167. how long before they
rebuilt their city and temple, 169. when they recovered
themselves, 170. enjoyed their own laws, ib. 173. commu-
nicated their doctrines to the Grecians, 172. privileges
granted them by several kings, 173-4. when they learnt
the Greek tongue, 192. some of them writers in it, ib.
dispersed in Asia and Europe, 173. whence falsely reck-
oned an ignorant people, 176, 178. under what kings per-
secuted, 179. take up arms against the Syrian kings, 81.
become considerable under the Maccabees for fourscore
years, 179. harrassed by different nations, and at last sub-
ject to the Romans, 182. became tax-gatherers, &c. con-
trary to their original institution, 187, many of them
physiclans, 188.
Jewish Confession of Faith, 265-267.
Inspiration, how far it attended the sacred writers, and in what
sense to be understood, 96.
Jordan, whence its name, 205.
Israelites, whence their name, 18. their country, see Palestine.
divided into twelve tribes, 18. were really brethren, 19.
did not intermarry with other nations, ib. Titles among
them, what, zo. Employments, 23, &c. hindered from
alienating their property, 41. paid no rents, but the tenths
and first fruits, ib. prohibited from castrating their cattle,
ib. used asses instead of horses, ib. had but few slaves,
and little money, 42. not much addicted to trade, ib.
wanted artificers for arms and even instruments of husban-
dry, 45 no bakers among them, ib. wore their beards
long, 46. used originally to eat sitting, afterwards lying,
60. had at first no physicians, 68. how far avoided stran-
gers, 68, 69. did not study languages, 83. writing not
common among them, 84. had no public schools, 93, 94.
their government founded on aristocracy, 137. fall into
idolatry, and apply to strangers for succours, both which
brought on their ruin, 163. See Jews.
Italy, varied at different periods, 5.
Jubilee, the word derived from a ram's horn, 117.
Judaism could not be embraced by Eunuchs, 197.
Judges governed those tribes only who shose them, 156,
judges in courts of judicature, 145, 180.
King desired by the Israelites as preferable to their condition
under judges, 156. his standing forces, 157. had absolute
power of life and death, and of levying tribute, ib. in what
respect limited, ib. 158. his splendour and riches, 158,
Kingdoms, at first small, 136.
Lamps antiently used instead of candles, 57.
Languages not studied by the Hebrews or antient Greeks, 83.
Law, always read in Hebrew, 261.
Leprosy, which sort meant in scripture, 68.
Levi, whole tribe of, dedicated to God, 22.
Levites, Sophetim or judges, and inferior officers of justice,
called Soterim, chosen out of them, 145.
Levites, estates and functions, 247—250.
Levitical cities, 207, 208.
Lordships not above seven hundred years old, 22.
Maccabees revived the Jewish state, 179..
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