[16]. Maitland’s “Church of the Catacombs,” p. 261. Also, Withrow’s “Catacombs,” p. 333.
[17]. “Several of them [Arabs of the Jordan] wore sandals, a rude invention to protect the feet. It was a thick piece of hide, confined by a thong passing under the sole at the hollow of the foot, around the heel, and between the great toe and the one which adjoins it.”—Lynch’s “Dead Sea Expedition,” p. 282. These thongs were the “latchets” of Mark i, 7.
[18]. “Ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας μου οὐκ ἔδωκας.” The preposition, επι, with the accusative, means upon, with the idea of previous or present motion,—to wit, (in this place,) of the water, poured and flowing upon the feet.
[19]. Gen. xxiv, 13.—; Ex. ii, 15-19; Judges v, 11; Ruth ii, 1-4; 2 Sam. xxiii, 15; 1 Sam. ix, 11; John iv, 7; Matt. xx, 1-7.
[20]. See Wilkinson, above quoted, and Smith’s Greek and Roman Antiquities, article “Balneæ;” and below pp. 200, 207.
[21]. Bryant’s Odyssey, Book X, 429-437.
[22]. Juchasin, fol 16, in Lightfoot.
[23]. Ps. cxiii-cxviii, were known among the Jews as, the Hallel, that is, Praise, being sung at the temple on the first of each month, and at the annual feasts.
[24]. See Ezek. viii, 16.
[25]. Lightfoot on this Feast and that of Tabernacles. Lewis’s “Origines Hebraeæ.” Pool’s “Synopsis,” etc.