_Drink_, the word as used in the Bible, 193 n. Drinking, at feasts, 61-63, 236, 237; manner of, 380, 381. Eating, 58-61, 222-24. Ecumenical Councils, 406. Eleventh hour, the, 277 n. Elijah, 375. Elisha, the story of, 382, 383; his kindness to a poor widow, 383, 384. Enemies, love of. _See_ Love. Evolution, not altogether compulsory, 242. Exaggeration, Oriental fondness for, 118. "Eye-of-the-needle" passage, the, 130-32. Faith, of the Oriental, 21; Syrian idealization of, 129; early Palestinian, 406. Familiar friend, the, 193. Family, spoken of as a vine, 281. Farmer, the American, 285; the Syrian, 286-94. Fasting, 15. Feasts, fraternal, in Syria, 56-69, 221; family, 231-38. Fecundity, a gift of the Lord, 20; leaven a symbol of, 150. Feet, washing and anointing, 226-28; unclean in a ceremonial sense, 228, 292. Fermentation, considered to be corruption, 151, 152. Fig tree, and the vine, the Oriental's chief joys, 280; sitting under, 281, 282. Filial obedience, 51-55, 335, 336. Flocks of sheep and goats, and their folds, 295, 296; returning, 300; the shepherd's guidance of, 301, 302; the gathering of the, 303. Folds, sheep and goat, 295-98. Forgiveness, 133-39. Forty days, the purification period, 38. Garment, cure effected by touch of, 393-95. Gathering of the flock, the, 303. Gentiles, the, 405, 406. Gesticulation of the Oriental, 115-17. Gethsemane, the kiss in, 70, 74, 76. _Ghebb_ (sucking of the water with the lips), 381. Gideon, the story of, 376, 377; his army, 380, 381. Girdle, the Syrian, 252, 253; placing the hand under, 369. Goad, the Syrian, 286, 288, 378. Goatfolds, 295-98. Goats, the calling of, by name, 299. God, called shelter and refuge, 241, 244, 245; the Oriental's belief that all good comes from, 386, 387. Good pleasure, 335-39. Gospel. _See_ Bible. Gracious woman, a, 348-64. Grain, measuring, 265-67; threshing, 377-80. Greeks, their custom of reclining at meals, 225. Green tree, 396, 397. Grinding wheat, 400-03. Guest, at the feast, 62; sudden arrival of, 213-16; delaying the departing, 218-21; departure of, 221; invited in families, 221, 222; sit on the floor, 222; and _zad_, 250. Hair, cutting the, release from vow, 17, 18. Handmill, 400-03. _Harem_, the, 333, 334. _Hate_, the word, in the Arabic tongue, 99; in the Bible, 99, 100. Hatred and love, 104-06. Hidden treasures, 161-66. Holidays, 221. Home, no word for, among the Syrians, 241, 243; the word in the translation of the Bible, 243. Honoring father and mother, 335. Horn, symbol of strength, 245 n. Hospitality, of Orientals, 205; extended by the man, not the woman, 205-07, 334, 335; Syrian fashion of extending, 208-13; compulsion to accept, 210, 214; Syrian rules of, 213-21; to the traveler, 249, 250. Host, the man, not the woman, acts as, 205-07, 334, 335; the urging of hospitality by, 208-21; bringing the guest on the way, 221; and _zad_, 250.