[97] _Gynaeologie_, Vol. II. p. 337. The worship of the Lingam is reported among the Druses by _Buckingham_, “Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries east of Syria and Palestine, etc.” London 1825. p. 394. On the worship of _Gopalsami_, a god of a similar character to Priapus worshipped in the neighbourhood of Jagrenat, and the licentious representations customary at his festival, even including representations of unnatural lusts, compare _Hamilton_, “A New Account of the East Indies.” Edinburgh 1727. 8vo. pp. 378 sqq.—_Moore, C._, “Narrative of the Operations of Capt. Little’s Detachment, and of the Mahratta Army.” London 1794. 4to., p. 45.—There were similar representations in several temples of Mexico. _Kircher_, Oedipus Aegypt., I. sect. 5. p. 422.—_J. de Laet_, “Beschryvinge van West-Indien,” (Descriptions of the West Indies). Leyden 1630. fol., Bk. VI. ch. 5. p. 284. [98] “Diss. exhibens novum ad historiam luis venereae additamentum,” (Dissertation containing New Material towards a History of the Venereal Disease). Jena 1797. 32mo., p. 8. [99] The quotations from the Bible are given by Dr. Rosenbaum according to the German translation of _de Wette_, “Die Heilige Schrift, übersetzt von Dr. de Wette,” (The Holy Scriptures, translated by Dr. de Wett, 2nd. edition. Heidelberg 1835. large 8vo. [100] “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.” _St. Paul_, 1st. Epistle to Corinthians, Ch. 10. v. 8. μέμνησθε γὰρ τὰς τέσσαρας καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδας _δὶα πορνείαν_ ἀπωσμένας, (for remember the four and twenty thousand that were rejected for fornication). [101] Antiquitat. Judaeor. Bk. V. ch. 1. [102] Ch. 2. v. 14. Comp. _Areth._ Commentar. in Apocalips. ch. 2. _Isidor._ Pel. bk. III. ep. 150. _Suidas_ under word προφητεία, (prophecy). [103] “Vita Mosis,” (Life of Moses), Works Vol. II. p. 217. [104] Factis per mulierum obscenam libidinem et protervam petulantiam quae corpora consuescentium stupro debilitarent, animosque impietate profligarent. ibid. p. 129. (Practices that originating in the foul lustfulness and provocative wantonness of the women weakened the bodies of those consorting with them, and leading them into impiety destroyed their minds). [105] Antiquit. Judaic. bk. IV. ch. 6. §§ 6-13. [106] Ἀπόλλυνται μὲν οὖν καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς τούτων ἀνδραγαθίας πολλοὶ τῶν παρανομησάντων, ἐφθάρησαν δὲ πάντες καὶ λοιμῷ, ταύτην ἐνσκήψαντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν νόσον· ὅσοι τε συγγενεῖς ὄντες, κωλύειν δέον, ἐξώτρυνον αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ ταῦτα, συναδικεῖν τῷ Θεῷ δοκοῦντες, ἀπέθνησκον.