Campbell reads, He who hath been bathing. Hence the observation applies very naturally to bathing any where. In hot climates, bathing is reckoned among the necessaries of life. The Čingalese usually bathe three times a week: on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Portuguese people bathe commonly on Saturday or Sunday. Cingalese servants of Europeans are content to bathe once a week,-nearly at the same hour.

Acts, x. 9. Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour.

Some of the rich Hindoos have a room on the top of the house, in which they perform worship daily. The Cingalese sometimes have a small apartment for the purpose, in which an image is placed, before which the devotee makes his bow, and presents odoriferous flowers.

Acts, xvii. 18. He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods. Verse 23. I found an altar with this inscription, To the unknown God.-Judges, v. 8. They chose new gods.

It is very common for the Cingalese to speak of a new God; and also of an unknown God.

Romans, ix. 4. Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption.

Adoption is first, when a man or woman having no issue, adopts a child. This was the case with Ishmael, and the children by the handmaids of Rachel and Leah. 2d. A parent having a daughter, (1,) marries her to a man, who, in consequence of such marriage, he adopts as a son. (2,) When he adopts the children or the eldest son of his daughter

by such marriage. 1 Chronicles, ii. 21; Exodus, ii. 10. Adopted sons are put into genealogies. To the honour of the natives of Ceylon, and the countryborn people likewise, instances of adoption are not unfrequent.

Romans, x. 15. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. See Isaiah, lii. 7.

The messenger's feet, soiled by walking expeditiously in sandals, or barefoot, are in fancy rendered beautiful by the excellence of his tidings.

1 Corinthians, vi. 1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?-James, ii. 6. But ye have despised the poor. not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment

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The Archbishop of Athens holds a kind of tribunal, at which the Christians have their affairs decided, without troubling the Turkish magistrate.-Rulers indeed have in some ages overburdened churchmen, and at length subverted their own authority, by enlarging the boundary of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

1 Corinthians, x. 12. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.

Would not the sense of the Apostle be better expressed by, Let him that most confidently standeth, take heed lest he fall? See Romans, xi. 20. So in 1 Corinthians, vii. 40; And I am confident also, that I have the Spirit of God.-Compare John, v. 39.

1 Corinthians, x. 17. But we being many, are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Chap. xi. 24.

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

The Jewish bread being baked in round thin portions, and apparently impressed in easily broken. Matthew, xxvi. 26; Luke, xxii. 19.

divisions, was Mark, xiv. 22;

1 Corinthians, xi. 5. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head.

The Apostle seems to proceed on the supposition of the impropriety of laying aside the known tokens of mastery and subjection, whatever they were; but apart from the spirit of his suggestions, they seem of local and temporary application.

1 Corinthians, xi. 10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. [Margin, That is a covering, in sign that she is under the power of her husband.]

Because of the angels-messengers. St. Paul's education had an influence on his religious expressions, even when writing to Gentile converts; and I should suppose he recollected the curtains of the temple figured with cherubs, indicative of the presence of the invisible world;-and in his somewhat mystic, though often eminently beautiful manner, alludes to the spies sent by their enemies to notice their behaviour, then occasionally dishonoured by extravagance. See 1 Corinthians, xiv. 23.-Long after writing the foregoing, I met with the following in a sensible author, which I submit to the consideration of the intelligent reader:-"In this church, (Cenchrea,) mention is made of their deaconess Phoebe. Dr. Taylor, from Cornelius Nepos, bath observed; that the Greeks differed much in their

customs from the Romans, particularly in the case of females; that the Grecian women lived in lone apartments of their own, very much retired; that decency forbad the deacons of the first churches to visit women, especially in sickness; that the women frequently held separate religious assemblies for divine worship in their own apartments; that in them Paul approved of their praying and teaching; that these female assemblies were not churches, and that women, who were allowed to teach and pray among themselves, were not allowed to speak in the church; that in their own assemblies it was their custom to lay aside their vails, but that as men, who are called angels, that is, messengers, were sometimes sent by the church to inspect these assemblies, it was requisite the women should then put on their vails. This account explains two apparently contradictory passages of Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians; and some in other Epistles. 1 Corinthians, xi. 5— 15; 1 Corinthians, xiv. 34, 35; Philippians, iv. 3; Romans, xvi. 3. 6. 13; 1 Timothy, ii. 11; Titus, ii. 3, 4."-Robinson's History of Baptism.

1 Corinthians. xv. 32. Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. See also Matthew, vi. 31, 32.

"It was a perverse use which the old Heathens made of the necessity of dying, when in their feasts, their custom was to bring in a skeleton to their guests, thereby exciting them to mirth and voluptuousness, while they could relish such delights, because shortly they must be as much dust and bones as what they saw. This is the common theme of Horace, Anacreon, and all the Epicurean sty." Hopkins.D'Israeli says, this skeleton was of beautiful workmanship, and carried in a small box. The Cingalese have a saying often employed by a squanderer on being admonished for extravagance: Mokada enna

kal kanawa bonawa?-What! while living, (shall we not) eat and drink?-The Indo-Portuguese say on the same point: Ate nos tem com vida, nos lo cume e bebe.-While we are living, we will eat and drink.

1 Corinthians, xv. 29. Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?

I should imagine, that the phrase, "baptized for the dead," alludes to the baptism of converts, whose confidence in the truth of Christianity, enabled them undauntedly to supply the places of others cut off by martyrdom." Baptizing some living man in the behalf of his dead friend. Cerinthius held that Christ did not rise from the dead, and so went about to weaken the doctrine of the resurrection, yet it was their fashion that followed his heresy, if one died unbaptized, they baptized a living man for him."-Leigh.

1 Corinthians, xvi. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.-1 Samuel, xxiv. 12. The Lord judge between thee and me, and the Lord avenge me of thee; but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

Bruce mentions a pretended saint, enraged on being set ashore, after embarking with the hope of a passage, who mingled with his execrations," May God send and do justice!"-Similar appeals are current among the Cingalese.

2 Corinthians, iv. 4. The God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.-Judges, xvi. 21. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.-2 Kings, xxv. 7. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.