Asmoneans, see Maccabees

Athenians, how at first divided, 22

Astrology, several eminent ladies addicted to, 151, 152, note
Ayeen Akberi quoted, 229

Ayeleth Shahar, what, 235

B.

Babylon, the fertility of its plains, 33

Bakers, when first at Rome, 52

Balsam-tree only found in Palestine anciently, 39

Baptism administered to proselytes, 263-how performed, ib.-

how administered to women, 266

Bathing, why frequent in the east, 62

Beards, long, worn by the Israelites, 62

Bedsteads, in the east often of ivory, and placed against the
wall, 65

Bells in churches of modern invention, 134

Bissextile how computed, 290, 291

Books now lost referred to in the Old Testament, 97, 98

Bramins neither kill nor eat animals, 72

Bread, how much per day a man eats, 42-very little bread
kept among the Israelites, 51-the word used in Scripture
means all sorts of victuals, 60, 70

Breast-plate, 326

Britons, ancient, their dress, 4, 5

Burial, the manner of it among the Israelites, 121, 122—no
religious ceremony used at it, 123

Byssus, what it was, 60

C.

Cakes of libation, 301, 302-called nakudeem, or perforated,
70, note

Calends, what, 285

Canaan, the Israelites prohibited from marrying with his de-.
scendants, 22, 23-Canaanites the same with Phoenicians,
49-their tribes, 269, 270

Canopies, the use of them in the east, 64, 65

Caoinian, or ancient funeral cry among the Irish, 122, 123
Captivity of the ten tribes above a hundred years before that of

the other two, 186-the consequences of captivity antiently,
and of Israel and Judah in particular, 187, 188-the re-
storation of Judah from it, 189-much reformed by it,
191-how long after it before they could rebuild their city
and temple, 192

Castration of cattle prohibited to the Israelites, 46

Cato the Censor writes on country affairs, 31-his opinion of
the pastoral life, 14-a maxim in his book the same with
one in Prov. xxiv. 27. 36

Cavalry of little use in mountainous countries, 176-forbidden
to the Israelites, though much used in Egypt, 175, 176,
note-numerous however in Solomon's time, 176
Ceremonies, some borrowed from the Jewish church, 263
Chazan, who, 327, 328

Children of this world-of darkness-light, &c. whence the
expressions, 21-increase of them desired by the Israelites,
88, 89-how numerous in some families, ib.

Chimneys among the antients little known, 66

Chlamys of the Greeks, what, 56, note, 59
Christians eat too often, 73

Church, whence the word, 164

Cicero, what he means by Jewish gold, 209

Circumcision practised by many nations besides Jews, 79, 80-
performed in private houses without the ministry of priests,
87-benediction used at, ib. note

Circumcision the seal of the covenant, 262

Cities in Judea, the habitation of labourers, and very numerous,
166-their gates the seats of justice, ib.—at first built by
wicked men, 13

Cleanliness, its importance, 75, 76

Cloaks, a sort of military dress, 59
Clothes of the antients injudiciously represented by most
painters, 56, 57-fashions of them little changed in the
east, 58-ill consequences of their change, 58, 59-of
white colour most in use among the Israelites, Greeks, and
Romans, 60-made generally among them all very plain,
ib.-of the women more sumptuous, 62, 63

Cælosyria described, 277

Concubines, though generally slaves, yet, to keep them not
reckoned disreputable, 91-ill consequences from the use
of them, 92

Confession of faith, 332-334

Corban, what, 309

Council of seventy-two and the high priest at Jerusalem, and of
twenty-three in the smaller cities, their power, 165, 166
-kept their court at the gate of the city, 166-continued
while the Jews were subject to the Persians, 193-and to
the Romans, 209

Country-people, the cause of their misery, 28

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, 166, 167

Craftsmen, Valley of, 54

Crusades laid waste the Holy Land, 38

Cubit, two sorts mentioned in Scripture, 127
Cynara, what, 103

D.

Day, how divided by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, 279,

280, 281

David, his riches, 180

Dancing in use among the Israelites, 104

Daughters of the patriarchs bred to hard labour, 14
Death of the patriarchs, how described in Scripture, 17
Decapolis described, 275

Deism of a Jewish Rabbi, 355, 356

Dice invented by the Lydians, 117
Diet of the antient Israelites, 69-74
Diodorus, meaning of the name, 24

Diogenes, what it signifies, ib.

Divorce, ill consequences of it, 92-when first heard of at
Rome, ib.

Dress of the Hebrews, 56, of the English, 4, 5.

E.

Eastern fashions change little, 58-their compliments more like
our's than those of the Greeks and Romans are, 112-
play at no games of hazard, 117

Edom, what it signifies, 272

Egypt, physic supposed to have been invented there, 18-what
food the Egyptians abstained from, 71, 72-Solon, Pytha-
goras, and Plato, studied there, 194, 195-becoming au
addition to the Roman power, hastened the ruin of the
Jewish, 206

Elders of Israel, the Jewish sanhedrim, 163, 164-the seat of
the elders, what meant by it, 164-number of, 164, note
Elijah, meaning of the name, 23

Embalming practised by the Israelites as well as Egyptians, 122
Eponymi, what, 22

Ephod described, 325

Equinox, what, 288, 289

Essenes, their manner of life, 214

Ethnarchs, what meant by them, 209

Eumeus described by Homer making his own shoes, 52

Eunuchs, servants about the king's person, without denoting

personal imperfection, 172

Evenings, two, what, 281, 282

F.

Fashions, see Clothes

Fathers among the Israelites had power of life and death over
their children, 160—but under the direction of the magis-
trate, 160, 161-the same law practised at Athens, 161
Fasts proclaimed by sound of trumpet, as well as feasts, 137
-how many stated ones, 137, 138-of the Hindoos, 246
of the Mohammedans, 248

Feasts, religious, the number of them among the Israelites, 134
were times of general joy, 135, 136-accompanied with
music, how esteemed among the Greeks, 115, 116

Feet, custom of washing them at visits, 62-to water and to
cover the feet, what meant by it, 113

Fire-places, 67, 68

First-fruits, 309

Fish scarcely eaten in the most antient times either by Israelites
or Grecians, 71

Fleury, Abbé, his life, x.—xvi.—his concluding account of
his own work, 222

Forces, see Militia

Fruits brought into Europe from Asia and Africa, have dege-
nerated, 39

Fruitfulness of the Promised Land, 39, 40

Funerals among the Hebrews, 121, 122

G..

Gadara described, 276

Galilees, two of them, 273

Galileans were the first who received the Gospel, 273

Galileo imprisoned for asserting the true system of the world,
152, note

Games of hazard unknown to the Israelites, and forbidden to
this day by the Arabians, 117

Gate of the city, courts of judicature held there, 169, 170
Genealogies of Matthew and Luke, how reconciled, 89, 90
Gennesareth, Lake of, 276

Germans introduced on this side of the Rhine the love of hunt-
ing, 31-and will always retain it, 211-political changes.
among, 156

Gittith, what, 234

Globe explained, 289, &c.

Government of the Israelites, what the form of it, 156, &c.--
of the patriarchs, lasted nine hundred years, 20

Gout, king Asa blamed for trusting in physicians to cure
it, 78

Greek proper names explained, 24, 25

Greeks, antient, employed in breeding cattle, 14-seem to have
been great eaters, 16-retained a great opinion of hus-
bandry in the height of their politeness, 30-joined manu-
factures and trade to it, 49-their wisdom and religion,
145, 146-their worship, 147, &c.-improved in the sci-
ences not till the time of Alexander, 150, 151

Greek tongue learnt by the Jews, especially of Alexandria, 219
Greek and Gentile, whence the same, 197, 198
Gregorian Style, 291-whence named, ib.

H.

Habits of the priests, 322-ditto of the highpriest, 323, 324
Hacamim, or chocamim, who, 327

Handmaids, who they were, 19

Hazanim, who, 210

Hebrew, the genius of the language, 95, 96-lost by the Jews
in their captivity, 188, 189

Hebrews by birth, 257, &c.

Hecatæus, a fragment of his concerning the extent of Palestine
explained, 42

Hedayah quoted, 230, 249

Heiresses, obliged to marry within their own tribe and family,

82, note

Hellenists, who meant by them in Scripture, 197, 198

Hephaestion, what it signifies, 24

Hermodorus, what it signifies, 24.

Herod's reign, the last period in which the Jews were con-

siderable, 207-his tetrarchy, 278.

Herodotus quoted, 33, 83

Hesiod wrote a poem upon husbandry, 30--his manner of

writing, 110

Higgaion, what, 235

Highpriest, see Priest.

Hindoos, their purifications, 226, &c.

Historians, the priests only such antiently, 107, 108-excel-

lence of the Jewish, 108, 109

Histories preserved among antient nations in verse, 101
Holocaust, what, 304