[84] Ibid., p. 321.
[85] Kuenen, H. K. O., Eerste Deel, p. 113.
[86] The same conclusion must be come to in connection with the sanitary duties of the priesthood as laid down, or rather as alluded to, in Deut. xxiv. 8, 9. This implies that the Levitical priests had special duties in connection with such matters, duties which, if not precisely the same as those laid down in the Law of Leprosy (Lev. xiii., xiv.), must have nearly resembled them. Semi-medical skill must have been necessary for the satisfactory discharge of these duties, and we must suppose that the priests who discharged them were selected from the tribe of Levi on some principle either of special proved knowledge and fitness, or on the ground of hereditary devotion to such work.
[87] History of Israel, p. 145.
[88] Cf. also Muirhead, article "Roman Law," in Ency. Brit., vol. xx. p. 669, 2nd col., and Ramsay, Church in Roman Empire, p. 190.
[89] Rägelsbach, Homerische Theologie, p. 198.
[90] Exod. xxiv. 5.
[91] Exod. xxxiii. 11.
[92] Cf. Kittel's Geschichte der Hebräër, II., p. 63.
[93] Cf. Exod. xxxii. 15-20.