![]() And it was on this principle that the physicians of David recommended a young healthy girl to sleep with David in his old age. Bacon's grand secret of the cure of old age, couched in so many obscure and enigmatical terms, is simply this: Let young persons sleep constantly with those who are aged and infirm. It is a foolish and destructive custom to permit young children, which is a common case, to sleep with aged aunts and old grandmothers. The vigour which is absorbed by the former is lost by the latter. The aged gain refreshment and energy by sleeping with the young and from the same means the young derive premature decrepitude. A child, unless remarkably healthy and robust, will suffer considerably by being nursed by an old woman, especially if the child sleep with her. Naomi took the child - This might do for Naomi, but it was bad for the child. "I would also observe, that ye men are similar to houses ye parents are the fabricators of the children, and they are the foundation of the building." 37.ĭicere, ut homines aedium esse similes arbitremini. There is a similar figure in PLAUTUS, Mostell. Which two did build the house of Israel - We have already seen that בן ben, a son, comes from the root בנה banah, he built and hence אבן eben, a stone, because as a house is built of stones, so is a family of children. ![]() The Lord make this woman - like Rachel and like Leah - May thy family be increased by her means, as the tribes were formed by means of Rachel and Leah, wives of the patriarch Jacob! If any minutes of court were kept, then the transaction was entered probably in some such words as these: "On - day of -, Boaz bought the land of Elimelech from Naomi his widow, and took Ruth, her daughter-in-law, to wife -, who had the nearest right, refusing to buy the land on the conditions then proposed." There was an appeal made to the people then present, whether they had seen and understood the transaction who answered, We have witnessed it. It is not very likely that any writing was drawn up. I will pay down the money which it is worth. This is Boaz's statement of the case before the kinsman, and before the people and the elders. 449 Houbigant in loco and the Variae Lectiones of Kennicott and De Rossi. And Boaz said, In the day that thou redeemest the land from the hand of Naomi, thou wilt also acquire Ruth, the wife of the dead, that thou mayest raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance " Ruth 4:4-5. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me, that I may know for there is none to redeem it but thou, and I who am next to thee. The text corrected reads thus: "And I said I will reveal this to thy ear, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. Kennicott and Father Houbigant have noticed several corruptions in the pronouns of this and the following verses and their criticisms have been confirmed by a great number of MSS. A question of this kind, in one of our courts of justice, in these enlightened times, would require many days' previous preparation of the attorney, and several hours' arguing between counsellor Botherum and counsellor Borum, till even an enlightened and conscientious judge would find it extremely difficult to decide whether Naomi might sell her own land, and whether Boaz or Peloni might buy it! O, glorious uncertainty of modern law! When this was done, the people who happened to be present witnessed the issue.Īnd thus the business was settled without lawyers or legal casuistry. When the elders heard the case, and the response of the appellee, they pronounced judgment, which judgment was always according to the custom of the place.Ĩ. When all this was done, the appellant preferred his suit.Ħ. Then ten elders were called, and they came and sat down.ĥ. He called him by name, and he stopped and sat down.Ĥ. Here he stopped till the person with whom he had the suit came to the gate on his way to his work.ģ. The man who had a suit went to the city gates.Ģ. How simple and how rational was this proceeding!ġ. He took ten men - Probably it required this number to constitute a court.
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