1/18/2024 0 Comments Audio sermon genesis 34Not only prudence dictates that young women should keep at home, but God expressly commands it, Titus 2:5. Had not Dinah gone out to see the daughters of the land, and very possibly at one of their idolatrous festivals, she had not suffered the foul disgrace mentioned in this chapter. SOLOMON has very properly said, My son, enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away, Proverbs 4:14-15. But horelet, the diminutive of whore, is not a less likely derivation. Hence it is said all such women were from her called harlots, as William himself was usually termed the Bastard. She was the daughter of a skinner, and her name was Arlotta and of her William, surnamed The Conqueror, was born. Our word harlot is said to have been derived from a very odd circumstance: Robert, duke of Normandy, seeing a fine - looking country girl dancing with her companions on the green, took her to his bed. The word harlot first occurs here: the original is not פילגש pilegesh, which we render concubine, (see its explanation Genesis 22:24), but זונה zonah, which ordinarily signifies one who prostitutes herself to any person for hire. Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? - On this outrage alone they vindicated their flagitious conduct. On a principle of this kind we may account for the prompt obedience of the people of Hamor. " Hassan Sabat, one of those petty princes formerly known in Asia and Europe by the title Sheekh-ul-jibel, or old man of the mountain, being required by an ambassador to do homage to his master, the Sultan Malekshah Jelaleddin, without giving any answer, ordered one of his attendants to poniard himself, and another to leap from the battlements of the tower and he was instantly obeyed! Then turning to the ambassador, he said, 'Seventy thousand are thus attentive to my commands. Then turning to the officer, he said, 'He who has such troops needs not value the number of his enemies!' 'Among them all,' says the Carmathian chief, 'has he got three like mine?' Then, ordering his followers to approach, he commanded one to stab himself, another to throw himself from a precipice, and a third to plunge into the Tigris all three instantly obeyed, and perished. 'How many men has the caliph's general?' said Abu Thaher. With only 500 horse he went to lay siege to Bagdad: the caliph's general, at the head of 30,000 men, marched out to seize him, but before he attacked him he sent an officer to summon him to surrender. " Abu Thaher, chief of the Carmathians, about the year nine hundred and thirty, ravaged the territory of Mecca, defiled the temple, and destroyed nearly 40,000 people. But the petty princes in Asiatic countries have ever been absolute and despotic, their subjects paying them the most prompt and blind obedience. Every male was circumcised - These simple people must have had very great affection for their chief and his son, or have been under the influence of the most passive obedience, to have come so readily into this measure, and to have submitted to this rite.
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