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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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We can follow in spirit <strong>the</strong> mournful procession,<br />

as it started from <strong>the</strong> desolate home. As it issued,<br />

chairs <strong>and</strong> couches were reversed, <strong>and</strong> laid low.<br />

Outside, <strong>the</strong> funeral orator, if such was employed,<br />

preceded <strong>the</strong> bier, proclaiming <strong>the</strong> good deeds <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> dead.^ Immediately before <strong>the</strong> dead came <strong>the</strong> ^<br />

simbb. women, this being peculiar to Gralilee,*<br />

<strong>the</strong> Midrash giving this reason , ^^^ <strong>of</strong> it, that<br />

woman had introduced death into <strong>the</strong> world.^ <strong>The</strong><br />

body ^** • was not, as afterwards in preference,"*<br />

carried in an ordinary c<strong>of</strong>fin <strong>of</strong> end'* wood<br />

(jiitwi). if possible, oedarwood—on one<br />

occasion, at least, made "^er.isa with holes<br />

beneath; * but laid on a bier, or in an open c<strong>of</strong>fin<br />

(Mittah), ss »;* Ben In former times a distinction<br />

had been made in <strong>the</strong>se biers between<br />

' <strong>The</strong> monming np to <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> O<strong>the</strong>r formB <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

same word need not<br />

burial or during <strong>the</strong> first day was termed be<br />

mentioned.

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