Chapter XV: Means of a Merged Life (2)

Karna, reference to, 34.

Kauravas, reference to, 34.

Kluge: cited, 74.

Kohler, Dr. K.: cited, 88.

Kookies of India, treaty of peace among, 123.

Koordistan, salt lake in region of, 59.

Krishna, reference to, 34.

Kuhn: cited, 74.

Laiss-safar, worker in brass and copper, 26.

Lane: cited, 24, 64, 100.

Lange, reference to, 65.

Layard: cited, 26.

Lea, Henry C.: cited, 101, 124.

"League," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5.

Lebanon region, blood covenant in, 48.

Leland, quotation from, 93.

Leprosy, prominence of salt as cure for, 45.

Life: dependent on salt, 42;
salt representing, 53-70;
seasoned with, 67;
and light, 73-76;
savor of, 133-138.

Light, life and, 73-76.

Livingstone, Dr. David: cited, 37 f., 38.

London Court Journal, reference to, 125.

London Quarterly Review, reference to, 43.

Lot's wife turned to pillar of salt, 103.

Lying, reference to, 167 f.

Macgregor, John, experiences with Arabs, 32 f., 33.

Macrae, quotation from, 126.

Macrobius: cited, 49.

Madagascar, covenant of salt in, 34.

Mahabharata, quoted and cited, 33 f.

Man offered in sacrifice, 91.

Marie, Princess, reference to, 125.

Marriage: a covenant, 7;
salt and bread placed under threshold at, 106.

Martène: cited, 101.

"Martyrdom of an Empress," 129.

Masai people, reference to, 37.

Meal, salt of the covenant not to be lacking from the, 18.

Meaning of the word "covenant," 3 f.

Means of a merged life, 141, 142.

Meat, eating of, as a pledge, 24.

Mecca, "blood-lickers" in, reference to, 48.

Mediterranean Sea, water not to be taken from, 70.

Merged life, means of, 141, 142.

Merrill, Selah: cited, 24.

"Merry Wives of Windsor," reference to, 55.

Message-bearer, salt in hand of, 126.

Meyer's commentary, reference to, 65.

Milk: substitute for salt, 62;
used instead of blood, 62.

"Milk and honey" standing for blood and flesh, 80.

"Milk brothers," reference to, 62.

Money, salt as, 69.

Morier, James, reference to, 54.

Morris's "China:" cited, 92.

Morton, Dr. Thomas G.: cited, 41.

Mountains of salt, 70.

Müller, F. Max, reference to, 91 f.

Moody, D. L., reference to, 156.

Moses, reference to, 148, 158.

"Mother," Oriental meaning of term, 160.

Mount Sinai, Moses at, 148.

Name signifying personality, 155 f.

Naming child, ceremony of, 124.

Napier, James: cited, 101 f., 104, 138.

Neptune, reference to, 23.

Nicoll, reference to, 65.

Niebuhr: cited, 24.

Noah: use of blood as food forbidden to, 41;
reference to, 163.

Norwach: cited, 7, 14, 137.

Oath: Oriental form of, 54;
different forms of, 123.

"Obligation," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5.

Old Testament, word "covenant" in, 18.

Oriental: form of oath, 54;
meaning of terms "father" and "mother," 160;
summit of treachery, 111.

Orientals, Bible written by, 146.

Othello, reference to, 55.

Oxford University, giving salt to students in, 127.

Page, Master, reference to, 54.

Pasha, Arabi, reference to, 130.

Pasha, Moldovanji, reference to, 28.

Paul, reference to, 67.

Perley, quotation from, 125.

Perpetuity, salt as symbol of, 84.

Perspiration, salt shown in, 40.

Philinus, reference to, 56.

Philology, archeology sometimes more valuable than, 4.

Pierrotti: cited, 24.

Plato, reference to, 53.

Pledge, eating meat as a, 24.

Pliny: cited, 45, 68, 70, 73, 94, 119.

Plutarch: cited, 23, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 119.

Poison of rattlesnake, 43.

Polo, Marco: cited, 69.

Preface to Ten Commandments, 150.

Price's "Mohammedan History:" cited, 27, 42.

Priests, salt forbidden to, 55.

Primitive covenanting, 6.

"Promise," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5.

Pythagoras: reference to, 70;
quotation from, 88.

Quain's "Dictionary of Medicine:" cited, 40, 62.

Ralston's "Songs of Russian People:" cited, 106.

Raphel, Don: reference to, 30;
quotation from, 31;
cited, 111 f.

Rattlesnake, poison of, 43.

Rawlinson's "Ancient Egypt," quotation from, 93.

Resuscitating drowned persons by salt, 63.

Richardson's English Dictionary, reference to, 96.

Ring as symbol and pledge of union, 7.

Robbery attempted by Yakoob, 26 f.

Robinson, Dr. Edward: cited, 166.

Rodd's "Customs:" cited, 101.

Rosenmuller: cited, 30;
reference to, 54.

Russell's "Natural History of Aleppo," quotation from, 24.

"Sabbath," a recognized institution before Moses, 158.

Sacrifice on threshold, 47.

Sacrifices, salt in, 83-96.

"Sacrificial essence, the," 91.

Saffaride dynasty, founder of, 27.

Saffaride Kaleefs, story of the origin of the dynasty of, 26.

St. Augustine: cited, 89.

St. Peter, fresh water changed to salt by, 59.

Saïs, annual festival at, 92.

Salary, derivation of word, 68.

Saline injections, 40.

Salt: as preservative, 14;
indispensable in food, 14;
spoken of as an accompaniment of bread, 14;
a vital element, 18;
covenant of, perpetual and unalterable, 18;
of the covenant not to be lacking, 18;
in many lands the possession of government, 19;
bread and, 23-34;
nothing eatable without, 23;
on a common table, 29 f.;
importance of, to a covenant, 32;
representing blood, 37-50;
and salts, 39;
discovery of as article of diet, 41;
as antidote for snake-bite, 43;
as saline ingredient of blood, 43;
curative powers of, 43 f.;
supply of, cut off from Armenians, 43;
strewn on threshold, 47;
representing life, 53-70;
and sun, 73-76;
in sacrifices, 83-96;
in the Eucharist, 89;
as sacrificial essence, 91;
leaping up in fire, 95;
in divination, 99-106;
in exorcism, 99-106;
not to be carried out of house after dark, 101;
on a corpse in Scotland, 103;
carried across threshold upon entering new house, 106;
faithlessness to, 109-114;
and ginger root given as wedding-cake, 124;
water mocking thirst, 135.

Salt-cellar as point of division on family-table, 126.

Salt-making, ordinary process of, 75.

Salted cake, essential in sacrificial offering, 94.

Salted water, drinking of, as a covenant, 48.

"Salted with fire," 65.

"Salting a freshman," 128.

Salts, salt and, 39.

Salts-hunger, death from, 42.

Samaria, woman of, reference to, 157.

Samoyedes dipping flesh in blood before eating it, 38.

Sanskrit roots, gain of looking among, 4.

Savor of death, 133-138.

Savor of life, 133-138.

Sayce, Professor A. H., reference to, 74.

Schrader, O.: cited, 74.

Schultz, Stephen: cited, 28, 29 f., 30.

Scipio, reference to, 68.

Scotland, salt on a corpse in, 103.

Scott, Sir Walter, quotation from, 127.

Seal killing by Esquimaux, 39.

Seasoned: with life, 67;
with salt, 67.

Second requirement of God's covenant, 153.

Sentiment valuable in research, 5.

Septuagint, The, reference to, 33, 84.

Settling dispute by salt and water, 124.

Shallow, Justice, reference to, 54.

Shewbread, salt on table of, 84.

Shooter's "Kafirs:" cited, 60.

Sign of the cross, reference to, 89.

Significance of bread, 79, 80.

"Sin-eaters," reference to, 105.

"Sitting below the salt," 126.

Sixth requirement of God's covenant, 162.

Skeat: cited, 74.

Smith, George Adam, quotation from, 134.

Smith, W. Robertson: cited, 14, 24, 48, 59, 62, 137.

Snake-bite, salt as antidote for, 43.

Sodom destroyed because of faithlessness to salt, 112.

"Son" and "sun" from same root, 73.

Spencer, Herbert: cited, 123, 126.

Spilling of salt, 138.

Stanley, Henry M., reference to, 46 f.

Stealing, Arab estimate of, 166.

Stevens, Dr. W.: cited, 43.

Stewart's "Manual of Physiology:" reference to, 42;
quotation from, 123.

Strassburg University, reference to, 128.

Strickland, Agnes: cited 126.

Student, in Journal of Asiatic Society, giving salt to, 127.

"Studies in Oriental Social Life," 14, 23, 24, 58.

Substitute together with reality, 117-120.

Substituting salt for blood, 37.

Sun, salt and, 73-76.

Supply of salt cut off from Armenians, 43.

Survey of Western Palestine, reference to, 32.

Swearing by salt, 54.

Sword, salt on blade of, 49.

Syrophoenician woman, reference to, 88.

Table: of shewbread, salt on, 84;
an altar, 85;
customs among Jews, 87.

Tacitus: cited, 135.

Tamerlane, Mongol-Tartar chieftain reference to, 109.

Tatar tradition of salt, 41.

Taxation in Egypt, 130.

Tears, salt shown in, 40.

Ten Commandments, division of, 159 f.

Thirst, salt water mocking, 135.

Thomson, W. M.: cited, 24;
quotation from, 37.

"Three," value as sacred number, 103.

Threshold: pouring blood on, 47;
Bible carried across, in new house, 76;
salt and candle carried across, 76;
salt scattered at, 100;
salt and Bible carried across, in new house, 106;
salt and bread under, 106.

"Threshold Covenant," reference to, 6, 47, 106, 117, 128, 130.

Torture: depriving of salt as a means of, 42;
treachery, Oriental summit of, 111;
Bible summit of, 113.

"Treaty," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5.

Truce between enemies, sharing water as, 23 f.

Twain made one, 7.

Van Lennep: cited, 61.

Various kinds of covenant, 9.

Vegetable: diet used by those who take salt, 38;
life, salt destructive of, 133.

Virgil, reference to, 94.

Volney: cited, 31.

Warburton: cited, 24.

Water: sharing of, 23;
fountain of, cured, 58;
not to be dipped from Mediterranean Sea, 70.

Wellhausen: cited, 95.

Wetzstein: cited, 24.

Wheeler's "History of India:" cited, 34.

Wilkinson's "Ancient Egypt:" cited, 93.

Wine: representing blood, 117;
and salt, 119.

Wit, salt equivalent of, 67.

Woman of Samaria, reference to, 157.

Words: ideas precede, 3;
limitations and imperfectness of, 3;
customs precede, 9.

Yakoob, a robber chieftain, 26.

"Youth, salt of," 54.

Yudhishthira, reference to, 34.

Zerubbabel, rebuilding of the temple by, 19.

SCRIPTURAL INDEX

GENESIS.

TEXT PAGE

2 : 24 164
4 : 20, 21 161
9 : 4 41
9 : 6 163
17 : 1-14 8
17 : 14 114
18 : 1-8 120
19 : 24, 25 66
24 : 12-14 24
31 : 54 120
45 : 8 161
49 : 11 117

EXODUS.

3 : 8, 17 80
9 : 23, 24 66
13 : 5 80
20 : 1-17 145
20 : 2 150, 151
23 : 19 88
23 : 19; 34 : 26 62
24 : 7, 8 148
25 : 22 145
26 : 33, 34 143
29 : 40 119
30 : 6, 26 145
30 : 34, 35 84
31 : 7 145
32 : 15 145
33 : 3 80
34 : 26 88
34 : 28 149
34 : 29 145
39 : 35 145
40 : 3, 5, 21 145
40 : 20 149

LEVITICUS.

2 : 13 18
2 : 13 83
7 : 11-14 120
10 : 2 66
13 : 52-57 66
17 : 11 54
19 : 9, 10 88
20 : 24 80
23 : 12, 13 119
23 : 15-20 120

NUMBERS.

4 : 5 145
7 : 89 145
13 : 27 80
14 : 8 80
14 : 44 145
15 : 5, 10 119
16 : 13, 14 80
18 : 19 17
21 : 2, 3 137
23 : 19 168
28 : 14 119

DEUTERONOMY.

5 : 1-22 145
6 : 3 80
9 : 15 145
10 : 8 145
11 : 9 80
12 : 23 54
14 : 21 62
14 : 21 88
17 : 2-7 114
23 : 3, 4 24
24 : 19-21 88
26 : 9, 15 80
27 : 3 80
29 : 23 133
31 : 9, 25, 26 145
31 : 20 80

JOSHUA.

3 : 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 145
4 : 7, 9, 18 145
4 : 16 145
5 : 6 80
6 : 6, 8 145
7 : 11-15 114
8 : 33 145

JUDGES.

2 : 20-23 114
9 : 45 134
17 : 10 161
20 : 27 145

1 SAMUEL.

4 : 3-5 145
25 : 10, 11 24

2 SAMUEL.

15 : 24 145

1 KINGS.

3 : 15 145
6 : 19 145
8 : 1, 6 145
18 : 4 24

2 KINGS.

2 : 19-22 58
18 : 11, 12 114

1 CHRONICLES.

15 : 25, 26, 28, 29 145
16 : 6, 37 145
17 : 1 145
22 : 19 145
28 : 2, 18 145

2 CHRONICLES.

5 : 2, 7 145
13 : 5 18

EZRA.

4 : 14 20
6 : 8-10 20
7 : 21, 22 83
7 : 22 20

JOB.

1 : 21 167
22 : 7 24

PSALMS.

41 : 9 111
50 : 5, 16 142
55 : 19-21 114
107 : 33, 34 134

ECCLESIASTES.

39 : 26 117
50 : 15 117

ISAIAH.

24 : 5, 6 114
34 : 4 136
51 : 6 136
51 : 16 136
65 : 11 85
65 : 17 136
66 : 22 136

JEREMIAH.

3 : 16 145
11 : 5 80
11 : 9-11 114
17 : 6 134
32 : 22 80
34 : 17-20 114

EZEKIEL.

16 : 4 61
20 : 6, 15 20
41 : 22 85
43 : 21-24 83
47 : 11 134

HOSEA.

1 : 10 142
6 : 4-7 114
8 : 1 114

ZEPHANIAH.

2 : 9 134

MALACHI.

1 : 6, 7 85
3 : 2, 3 66

1 MACCABEES.

6 : 34 117

MATTHEW.

3 : 12 66
5 : 3 to 7 : 27 170
5 : 13 65
5 : 13, 14 75
7 : 19 66
10 : 8 75
10 : 42 24
15 : 27 88
22 : 36-40 173
25 : 40 169
26 : 26-28 119
28 : 19 156
28 : 20 151

MARK.

7 : 7-11 137
9 : 41 24
9 : 49 65, 83
9 : 50 65
14 : 22-24 119

LUKE.

3 : 17 66
14 : 34 65
22 : 19, 20 119

JOHN.

1 : 4 76
4 : 9 24
4 : 24 157
13 : 18 111
13 : 34 169
15 : 6 66

ROMANS.

1 : 31 114
9 : 26 142
12 : 1 67
13 : 1 161
13 : 4 163
13 : 10 173

1 CORINTHIANS.

3 : 13-15 66
4 : 7 167
11 : 23-25 119

2 CORINTHIANS.

2 : 16 133
12 : 14 67

COLOSSIANS.

3 : 5 171
4 : 6 67

2 TIMOTHY.

2 : 19 157

HEBREWS.

9 : 19 148

1 PETER.

1 : 7 66

2 PETER.

3 : 10-12 136
3 : 13 136

1 JOHN.

2 : 3 174
4 : 16 174
4 : 20, 21 172

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Transcriber's notes

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected but otherwise
variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been
retained. Italics are represented thus _i_, breve thus [)e] and
macron is thus [=a].

Repeated chapter headings on consecutive pages have been removed.
Footnote 63. The word 'sum' in the original has been corrected to
'sun', which is more reasonable in the context.

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