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PLANTS IN SCRIPTURE
several considerations which antiquity had of the fig
tree, in reference unto those parts, particularly how fig
leaves, by sundry authors, are described to have some
resemblance unto the genitals, and so were aptly formed
for such contection of those parts; how also, in that
famous statua of Praxiteles, concerning Alexander and
Bucephalus, the secret parts are veiled with fig leaves.
14. That the good Samaritan, coming from Jericho,
used any of the Judean balsam upon the wounded
traveller, is not to be made out, and we are unwilling
to disparage his charitable surgery in pouring oil into
a green wound ; and, therefore when ’tis said he used
oil and wine, may rather conceive that he made an
oineLeum, or medicine of oil and wine beaten up and
mixed together, which was no improper medicine, and
is an art now lately studied by some so to incorporate
wine and oil, that they may lastingly hold together
which some pretend to have, and call it oleum
Samar'itanum or, Samaritan’s oil.
15. When Daniel would not pollute himself with
the diet of the Babylonians, he probably declined
pagan commensation, or to eat of meats forbidden to
the Jews, though common at their tables, or so much
as to taste of their Gentile immolations, and sacrifices
abominable unto his palate.
PLANTS IN SCRIPTURE
several considerations which antiquity had of the fig
tree, in reference unto those parts, particularly how fig
leaves, by sundry authors, are described to have some
resemblance unto the genitals, and so were aptly formed
for such contection of those parts; how also, in that
famous statua of Praxiteles, concerning Alexander and
Bucephalus, the secret parts are veiled with fig leaves.
14. That the good Samaritan, coming from Jericho,
used any of the Judean balsam upon the wounded
traveller, is not to be made out, and we are unwilling
to disparage his charitable surgery in pouring oil into
a green wound ; and, therefore when ’tis said he used
oil and wine, may rather conceive that he made an
oineLeum, or medicine of oil and wine beaten up and
mixed together, which was no improper medicine, and
is an art now lately studied by some so to incorporate
wine and oil, that they may lastingly hold together
which some pretend to have, and call it oleum
Samar'itanum or, Samaritan’s oil.
15. When Daniel would not pollute himself with
the diet of the Babylonians, he probably declined
pagan commensation, or to eat of meats forbidden to
the Jews, though common at their tables, or so much
as to taste of their Gentile immolations, and sacrifices
abominable unto his palate.