 | THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 pàgines
...which, Sir John Chardin tells us, is still observed by the oriental Christians, of sending provisions to the house of the deceased, where healths were also...the family, wishing that the dead may have been the victims for the sins of the family. The same is practised among the Moors. Of the Jewish method, we... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 pàgines
...sorrows. This is called here the cup of consolation. Sir John Chardin, in one of his MSS. tells us, omb, naked shall he return survivers of the family." God here tells the Jews by his prophet, that the time should come, when so... | |
 | 1870
...those provisions which used to be sent to the house of the deceased, and of those healths which were drunk to the survivors of the family, wishing that...may have been the victim for the sins of the family. The same with respect to eating is practised among the Moors. Thus, the bread of men, Ezek. xxiv. 1... | |
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Christians still make banquets of this kind, by a custom derived from the Jews; and I have been many times present at them among the Armenians in Persia. 
