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Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 a Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc - Softcover
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Excerpt: ... prefixed is the participial form of the verb, equivalent to the termination ing in English; and converts the verb also into a verbal noun, conveying the generalised idea of a class of actions; and thereby the steps, המעלות , the steppings upward, literally, which means "the ascents," or "the ascendings." The ascent by fifteen steps of the rabbins is probably equally apocryphal with the quotations from St. Matthew and St. James (ix. p. 376.); for the same reason (Ex. xx. 26.) which forbad the ascending the altar by steps, would apply still more strongly to the supposed "fifteen steps leading from the Atrium Israelis to the court of the women."4 Although the ground-plans of the temples are well known, their elevations are involved in doubt. Your journal would not afford me sufficient space for an excursus to establish the suggestion, not assertion, that I have adventured as to the domestic use of the Alphabetic and Degree Psalms, but there is negative evidence that these Psalms were not used in the Jewish liturgy. I will only refer you to Lightfoot's ninth volume (Pitman's edition), where the Psalms used, and indeed the whole service of the Jews, is as clearly set forth as the Greek service is in the liturgies of Basil and Chrysostom. T. J. Buckton. Lichfield. Footnote 4:(return) "Eadem ratio, ab honestate ducta, eandem pepererat apud Romanos legem. Gellius ex Fabio Pictore, Noct. Attic., lib. x. c. 15., de flamine Diali: Scalas, nisi quę Gręcę adpellantur, eas adscendere ei plus tribus gradibus religiosum est. Servius ad Ęneid, iv. 646. Apud veteres, Flaminicam plus tribus gradibus, nisi Gręcas scalas, scandere non licebat, ne ulla pars pedum ejus, crurumve subter conspiceretur; eoque nec pluribus gradibus, sed tribus ut adscensu duplices nisus non paterentur adtolli vestem, aut nudari crura; nam ideo et scalę Gręcę dicuntur, quia ita fabricantur ut omni ex parte compagine tabularum clausę...
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