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ANASTASI III. 75
There were festoons on the ( ),
Women singers of joy,
For his great victories;
In music of the temple of the land of Ptah,
Where Joy sat (passing),
Never [a gap] upon it,
Oh, Guardian of the Thummim, Muntu on the earth,
Rameses the god.
In approaching the subject of the manners, lite-
rature, religion, and history of the Egyptians at
this Mosaic period, we must be careful not to look
at things from too European a point of view. We
must not separate devotion too much from dining,
Nature from God, nor the trade of the butcher
from the work of the priest. The idea of a public
dinner of thanksgiving is the idea which both the
Old and New Testaments would give to an un-
prejudiced person as that of Scriptural Divine
Service; three great feasts in the year constituting
the national worship of the Jews. Every service
in the Jewish Temple was connected with eating,
and the same remark applies to the only public
Christian worship ever hinted at in the New Testa-
ment. But the Greeks were bold innovators, and
the famous invention of Tragedy was probably only
a separation of the temple poetry from the accom-
panying popular gormandizing. So, too, when
Christianity spread among the Europeans, St. Paul
was forced to tell the disciples with sorrowful anger
that they had houses to eat and to drink in.
In England, we can hardly enter into the state
There were festoons on the ( ),
Women singers of joy,
For his great victories;
In music of the temple of the land of Ptah,
Where Joy sat (passing),
Never [a gap] upon it,
Oh, Guardian of the Thummim, Muntu on the earth,
Rameses the god.
In approaching the subject of the manners, lite-
rature, religion, and history of the Egyptians at
this Mosaic period, we must be careful not to look
at things from too European a point of view. We
must not separate devotion too much from dining,
Nature from God, nor the trade of the butcher
from the work of the priest. The idea of a public
dinner of thanksgiving is the idea which both the
Old and New Testaments would give to an un-
prejudiced person as that of Scriptural Divine
Service; three great feasts in the year constituting
the national worship of the Jews. Every service
in the Jewish Temple was connected with eating,
and the same remark applies to the only public
Christian worship ever hinted at in the New Testa-
ment. But the Greeks were bold innovators, and
the famous invention of Tragedy was probably only
a separation of the temple poetry from the accom-
panying popular gormandizing. So, too, when
Christianity spread among the Europeans, St. Paul
was forced to tell the disciples with sorrowful anger
that they had houses to eat and to drink in.
In England, we can hardly enter into the state