[489] On this point I have the emphatic testimony of intelligent native Syrians. “As I live, saith the Lord”--or more literally, “I, living, saith the Lord.” “For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself”--by his life. (Comp. Isa. 49: 18; Jer. 22 : 24; Ezek. 5 : 11; Heb. 6 : 13.) [490] This also I am assured of, by native Syrians. One who had resided in both Syria and Upper Egypt told me, that in Syria, in the rite of blood-friendship, the blood is taken from the _arm_ as the symbol of strength; while in portions of Africa where the legs are counted stronger than the arms, through the training of the people as runners rather than as burden-bearers, the _leg_ supplies the blood for this rite (See reference to Stanley and Mirambo’s celebration of this rite at pages 18-20, _supra_). [491] See page 79, _supra_. [492] See e. g. Gen. 14 : 22; Dan. 12 : 7. “It is an interesting fact, that many of the images of the gods of the heathen have the right hand lifted up.” (Roberts’s _Orient. Ill. of Scrip._, p. 20.) [493] See Prov. 6 : 1; 11 : 15 (margin); 22 : 24-26. [494] See page 47, _supra_. [495] See Lepsius’s exemplar of the _Todtenbuch_; also Birch, in Bunsen’s _Egypt’s Place_, V., 125. [496] See Farrar’s article on “Frontlets,” in Smith-Hackett’s _Bib. Dic._ [497] Joshua 2 : 18-20. [498] See pages 93 f., _supra_. [499] See Roberts’s _Orient. Ill. of Scrip._, p. 20. [500] Lynd’s _Hist. of Dakotas_, p. 81. [501] Bayard Taylor’s _India, China, and Japan_, p. 52. [502] See _Home and Syn. of Mod. Jew_, p. 5. [503] See Targum, in Buxtorf’s _Biblia Rabbinica_, in loco. [504] See Jones’s _Credulities Past and Present_, p. 188. [505] See _Kadesh Barnea_, p. 382, note. [506] Heb. 9 : 19. [507] See Exod. 24 : 1-11. [508] Lev. 7 : 26. [509] Lev. 17 : 10-12. [510] Lev. 17 : 14. [511] Rom. 6 : 23. [512] Lev. 17 : 3-6. [513] Comp. Heb. 13 : 20. [514] Lev. 17 : 13. [515] A traveler in Mauritius, describing a Hindoo sacrifice there, of a he-goat, in fulfilment of a vow, says: “It was killed on soft ground, where the blood would sink into the earth, and leave no trace” (Pike’s _Sub-Tropical Rambles_, p. 223). See also page 109, _supra_. [516] Rom. 5 : 12-21. [517] See _Quarterly Statement_, of Pales. Expl. Fund, for July 1885, pp. 197-207. [518] _The Temple, Its Ministry and Services_, p. 88, f. [519] _The Old Test. in the Jewish Church_, Notes on Lect. XII. [520] See pages 11, 12, _supra_. [521] Lev. 1 : 13, 17; 2 : 2, 12; 3 : 8, 26. [522] _Christian Institutions_, Chap. 4. [523] _The Temple, Its Min. and Serv._, p. 82. [524] _The Temple, Its Min. and Serv._, p. 82. [525] Lev. 4 : 7, 18, 25, 30, 34. [526] Lev. 4 : 6, 7, 17; 16 : 14, 15. [527] Lev. 1 : 5, 11, 15. [528] Lev. 8 : 14-22; 9 : 8-22; 14 : 19, 20; 16 : 3-25. [529] Edersheim’s _The Temple, Its Min. and Serv._, p. 100.