Various signs of mourning common in eastern countries. Baldness was forbidden to the Israelites (Deuteronomy 14:1). They seem, however,…

He continues the same sentiment. He says, such was the slaughter of the people that they would all gird themselves with sackcloth. But it hardly se…

They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth As a token of mourning, (Genesis 37:34) ; and ho…

Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin may justly be left to pine away in it.