Her days shall not be prolonged.”
FOOTNOTES
[1] The chief god of Babylon, properly named Bel-Marduk, was often called indifferently simply Bel or Marduk.
[2] Twenty per cent annually.
[3] Such copy-books have been actually preserved to us.
[4] The gur was about eight bushels.
[5] The Babylonians observed a seventh day as sacred, much after the Jewish fashion. It was likewise called “The Sabbath.”
[6] Often, though incorrectly, written “Zoroaster.”
[7] The Persian “hell,” conceived of as in the extreme north; a land of pitiless cold.
[8] Sirius.