Identifier: ramblesinbiblela00neil (find matches)
Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nsists of two apartments only.The one to which the door gives entrance, about a thirdof the whole, is the stable, where in winter the ox, ass,or horse, if the owner is rich enough to possess them,are brought in. From this stable part, some threerude steps lead up to a raised dais about a foot toa foot and a half above the level of the stable floor,and this, which is all the rest of the house, is wherethe family live. The hut, for it is nothing more,has no chimney. On either side of the steps that leadup to the raised dais are mangers, either hollowedout of stone or rudely built up of wood. It was nodoubt in one of these (mangers in the house wherethe Magi found Him that the infant Saviour was 1 Mark ii. 4. JERUSALEM TO BEER^SHEBA 167 laid, having apparently been born in the stable, theraised dais set apart for human habitation being full.What a sign to be given to the shepherds by which toknow the Great King, whose glorious birth a hostof angels had proclaimed to them that still, warm
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THE POOL AT HEBRON, WITH THE LONG MOSQUE WITH ITS TWO MINARETS, ORTOWERS. SEEN IN THE DISTANCE ON THE LEFT September night, about the 25th of the month, whenthey were watching their flocks in the open, whichthey would never do on the 25th of December!—whata sign, we say, Ye shall find the babe wrapped inswaddling clothes, and lying in a manger! Oh for a faithlike that of these humble men, that could pierce through 168 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS this deep disguise, and discern the King of Glory.To this day all infants are swaddled in Palestine. Assoon as they are born they are washed in water andhave salt gently rubbed into them, and then, having theirarms laid by their side and their legs placed together,are wound all round with cotton or linen bandages,some four to five inches wide and five to six yardslong, until they look like little mummies. A band iseven passed under the chin and round the forehead.In allusion to these customs, Ezekiel, comparing Israelin their absence of spiritual

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