[585] Mr. Forbes tells of a custom, in Sumatra, of taking a binding oath, above the grave of the original patriarch of the Passumah. An animal is sacrificed, cut into small pieces, and cooked in a pot. “Then he who is to take the oath, holding his hand, or a long kriss of the finest sort, over the grave-stone, and over the cooked animal, says: ‘If such and such be not the case, may I be afflicted with the worst evils.’ The whole of the company then partake of the food” (_A Naturalist’s Wanderings_, p. 198 f.). This seems to be a vestige of the primitive custom of eating on the witness-heap of an oath. [586] Gen. 31 : 44-54. [587] 1 Sam. 18 : 1-3. [588] See pages 14, 24, 28, 35 f., 62, _supra_. [589] 1 Sam. 18 : 4; 20 : 1-13. [590] 1 Sam. 19 : 1-7. [591] 2 Sam. 1 : 26. [592] See pages 10, 53, _supra_. [593] 1 Sam. 20 : 13-17. [594] 2 Sam. 7 : 1; 9 : 1. [595] 2 Sam. 9 : 2-13. [596] Heb. 10 : 1-4. [597] Rom. 8 : 22. [598] Rom. 8 : 32. [599] Heb. 13 : 20. [600] Comp. John 1 : 1-14; Heb. 1 : 1-3; 2 : 14-16. [601] Gen. 21 : 12; Heb. 11 : 18. [602] 1 Pet. 1 : 20. [603] Rev. 13 : 8. [604] See page 250, _supra_, note (footnote 530). [605] Heb. 10 : 5-9. [606] John 6 : 53-58. [607] John 6 : 63. [608] John 6 : 60. [609] John 6 : 60. [610] Heb. 1 : 14-16. [611] Gal. 3 : 6-9, 16, 29. [612] Keble. [613] “In the garden of Gethsemane, Christ endured mental agony so intense that, had it not been limited by divine interposition, it would probably have destroyed his life without the aid of any other sufferings; but having been thus mitigated, its effects were confined to violent palpitation of the heart accompanied with bloody sweat.... Dr. Millingen’s explanation of bloody sweat ... is judicious. ‘It is probable,’ says he, ‘that this strange disorder arises from a violent commotion of the nervous system, turning the streams of blood out of their natural course, and forcing the red particles into the cutaneous excretories.’” (Stroud’s _Physical Cause of the Death of Christ_, pp. 74, 380). [614] Luke 22 : 44. [615] John 13 : 1. [616] Luke 22 : 14, 15. [617] As to the points in this dispute, see Andrews’s _Life of our Lord_, pp. 425-460, and Farrar’s _Life of Christ_, Excursus X., Appendix. [618] Matt. 26 : 26. [619] Luke 22 : 19, 20. [620] Mark 14 : 23. [621] Matt. 26 : 27, 28. [622] Luke 22 : 20. [623] Matt. 26 : 28. [624] 1 Cor. 11 : 25. [625] Mark 14 : 23. [626] John 15 : 13-15. [627] John 15 : 4-7. [628] John 17 : 1-24. [629] 2 Tim. 1 : 10. [630] Heb. 9 : 16, 17. [631] John 15 : 13. [632] John 10 : 10, 18. [633] John 6 : 51. [634] John 6 : 55. [635] See Matt. 27 : 33-54; Mark 15 : 22-39; Luke 23 : 33-47; John 19 : 17-37.