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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt:...was called, by the writer of the Pentateuch, (Deut. xxxii. 14) "the pure (or foaming) blood of the grape." We may have what Baal Ha' Toorim says (Comment on Deut. xvi. 11) objected:--"There is no rejoicing spoken of at the Passover, because the Fkuits were yet in the Fields: but at JllSy 'the day of Assembly' (Pentecost), when corn is reaped, and wine is now in the grapes, there is one rejoicing mentioned." Yet this objection--that at the Passover there was no 'wine in the grapes' to be had--is by no means conclusive, because the fact asserted is by no means certain. A later Jew or Christian, living in a northwestern country, should guard against assuming things in the East to be like those around himself. Now the Egyptians were extremely fond of figs, dates, grapes, and other fruits; and it has been shown, again and again, that the Orientals, as well as the Spaniards and Italians, can and do keep grapes, and other fruit, undecayed and pure, not only from season to season, but for much longer periods when needful. Why, then, should not the more favored of the Israelites in Egypt, and others afterwards in Palestine, have any grapes in their houses preserved from the last season? The murmurings of the Jews to Dathius has Mtjstum. It signifies fresh, pure. Dr. Benisca's Jewish translation has, foaming. Moses, because he had brought them to a land where there were no vines, shows that they had not been entire strangers to that fruit in the land of their captivity. § JO. The Matzah enjoined for consumption during the Passover, even tho limited at its first observance to the unleavened cakes, must have embraced a variety of elements besides. It would include those preserves or jellies so common and so highly esteemed in the East, made fro...