_i.e._ the Saturday (see vol. ii. 305) established as a God’s rest by the so-called “Mosaic” commandment No. iv. How it gradually passed out of observance, after so many centuries of most stringent application, I cannot discover: certainly the text in Cor. ii. 16–17 is insufficient to abolish or supersede an order given with such singular majesty and impressiveness by God and so strictly obeyed by man. The popular idea is that the Jewish Sabbath was done away with in Christ; and that sundry of the 1604 councils, _e.g._ Laodicea, anathematized those who kept it holy after such fashion. With the day the aim and object changed; and the early Fathers made it the “Feast of the Resurrection” which could not be kept too joyously. The “Sabbatismus” of our Sabbatarians, who return to the Israelitic practice and yet honour the wrong day, is heretical and vastly illogical; and the Sunday is better kept in France, Italy and other “Catholic” countries than in England and Scotland. Footnote 84: For “Mushayyadát” see vol. viii. 23. Footnote 85: All these words sárú, dakhalú, jalasú, &c. are in the plur. for the dual—popular and vulgar speech. It is so throughout the MS. Footnote 86: The Persians apply the Arab. word “Sahrá” = desert, to the waste grounds about a town. Footnote 87: Arab. Kashákísh from the quadril. √ kashkasha = he gathered fuel. Footnote 88: In text “Shayy bi-lásh” which would mean lit. a thing gratis or in vain. Footnote 89: In the text “Sabba raml” = cast in sand. It maybe a clerical error for “Zaraba raml” = he struck sand _i.e._ made geomantic figures. Footnote 90: Arab. Mauza’ = a place, an apartment, a saloon. Footnote 91: Galland makes each contain _quatre vases de bronze, grands comme des cuves_. Footnote 92: The Arab. is “Líwán,” for which see vols. iv. 71 and vii. 347. Galland translates it by a “terrace” and “niche.” Footnote 93: The idea is borrowed from the _lume eterno_ of the Rosicrucians. It is still prevalent throughout Syria where the little sepulchral lamps buried by the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans are so called. Many tales are told of their being found burning after the lapse of centuries: but the traveller will never see the marvel. Footnote 94: