Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 1356
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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a long time, unable to fulfil the law. Some even wait three or four years’ time. A similar custom prevails in some places in Cyprus.’ 3 Our verse seems to describe something similar but not identical. There is no mention here of the Sanctuary (ἱερόν) of Aphrodite. The women ‘sit in the ways’ or streets, instead of repairing thither: cf. — Gen. xxxviii. 14 ff., Prov. vii. 8, 12. Herodotus does not mention the offering of ‘bran’; and it is not clear whether the ‘cords’ (σχοινία) of our verse are to be identified with his ‘fillet of cord’ (orepavov θώμιγγος) — or his ‘rope-drawn passages’ (…
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