 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after...  The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a Continuation ... - Page 149by Bryan Edwards - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Bryan Edwards - Botany - 1793 - 532 pages
...till the blood gujhed out upon them J." But perhaps the inftance the moft appofite and illuftrative, was the habit among the Charaibes of chewing the betele, preparing it with calcined {hells precifely after the manner of the Indians in the Eaft; — a circumftance, which, though... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1805 - 464 pages
...recorded of the prophets of Baal that, in worshipping their idol "they " cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with " knives and lances till the blood gushed out upon thcm."§ At this day the islanders of the South sea express grief and lamentation for the dead in the... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 452 pages
...recorded of the prophets of Baal that, in worshipping their idol " they " cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner •with, " knives and lances till...illustrative, Was the habit among the Charaibes of chewing the bctele, preparing it with calcined shells precisely after the manner of the Indians in the east ; —... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 426 pages
...altar they had made, which the Septuagint render ran round; and they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them. Their running round the altar signified the annual rotation of the earth round the sun. Striking with... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 480 pages
...had made: — which the Sep. tuagint renders "run round; and they cried aloud, and cut themselves, after their manner, with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them." This running round the altar, signified, the annual rotation of the earth round the sun, — striking... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 428 pages
...altar they had made, which the Septuagint render ran round; and they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them. Their running round the altar signified the annual rotation of the earth round the sun. Striking with... | |
 | Missions - 1803 - 652 pages
...had made : — which the Septuagint renders " run round ; ami the\' cried aloud, and cut themselves, after their manner, with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them." This running round the altar, signified, the annual rotation of the earth round the sun ; — striking... | |
 | John (st.) - 1832 - 82 pages
...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they CRIED A LOUD, AND CUT themselves, after their manner, with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when mid-day was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...Baal to a frantic enthusiasm. They not only cried aloud, like men in despair, but " cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out." This extraordinary custom of cutting the body with knives and lancets, was common among barbarous nations... | |
 | Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte - 1846 - 412 pages
...Nevochim, lib. in. cap. xxxvn. t 1 Kings, chap. xvm. v. 28. " And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances. Till the blood gushed out upon them." I Lucan. Pharsal. lib. vi. vers. 745. Stat. Thebaid, lib. iv. vers. 156. § Voyage intdit en Angleterre... | |
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