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APPENDIX. 337
Mark vii. 3. ' The Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash
their hands oft, eat not.' Bathing is an indispensable pre-
requisite to the first meal of the day, and washing the hands
and feet is equally so before the evening meal.
Mark x. 50. ' He, casting away his garment, rose, and came to
Jesus.' The upper garment of the Hindoos is a loose piece
of cloth. This poor blind man cast it from him, perhaps, to
present himself in as destitute a state as possible. It is not
considered at all indelicate among this people for a man to
appear naked from the head to the waist. Servants thus
attend at the tables of poor Europeans half naked.
Mark xiv. 3. '. There came a woman, having an alabaster box of
ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she brake the
box, and poured it on his head.' Pouring sweet-scented oil
on the head is common in this country. At the close of the
festival of Doorga, the Hindoos worship the unmarried
daughters of bramhuns, and amongst other ceremonies pour
sweet-scented oil on their heads.
Mark xiv. 14. * Good man of the house.' A Hindoo woman
never calls her husband by his name, but frequently speaks
of him as the ' man of the house.'
Mark xiv. 14. ' Where is the guest-chamber.' Respectable
householders have a room which they, call the stranger's
room, (iitit'hee-shala,) and which is especially set apart to
the use of guests.
Mark xiv. 20. ' It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in
the dish.' In the east, persons never eat together from one
dish, except where a strong attachment subsists betwixt
two or more persons of the same cast: in such a case, one
person sometimes invites another to come and sit by him,
and eat from the same dish. It is highly probable, that the
same custom existed among the Jews, and that the sacred
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Mark vii. 3. ' The Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash
their hands oft, eat not.' Bathing is an indispensable pre-
requisite to the first meal of the day, and washing the hands
and feet is equally so before the evening meal.
Mark x. 50. ' He, casting away his garment, rose, and came to
Jesus.' The upper garment of the Hindoos is a loose piece
of cloth. This poor blind man cast it from him, perhaps, to
present himself in as destitute a state as possible. It is not
considered at all indelicate among this people for a man to
appear naked from the head to the waist. Servants thus
attend at the tables of poor Europeans half naked.
Mark xiv. 3. '. There came a woman, having an alabaster box of
ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she brake the
box, and poured it on his head.' Pouring sweet-scented oil
on the head is common in this country. At the close of the
festival of Doorga, the Hindoos worship the unmarried
daughters of bramhuns, and amongst other ceremonies pour
sweet-scented oil on their heads.
Mark xiv. 14. * Good man of the house.' A Hindoo woman
never calls her husband by his name, but frequently speaks
of him as the ' man of the house.'
Mark xiv. 14. ' Where is the guest-chamber.' Respectable
householders have a room which they, call the stranger's
room, (iitit'hee-shala,) and which is especially set apart to
the use of guests.
Mark xiv. 20. ' It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in
the dish.' In the east, persons never eat together from one
dish, except where a strong attachment subsists betwixt
two or more persons of the same cast: in such a case, one
person sometimes invites another to come and sit by him,
and eat from the same dish. It is highly probable, that the
same custom existed among the Jews, and that the sacred
x x 2