APPENDIX, NT. 459 
laid an image in thei?' temples, and, after numbering 
their lamentations according to the beads upon a 
string, thus ended the appointed days of privation 
andsorroiv; that then light luas brought in; and the 
high-priest delivered an expression, similar in its 
import, of resuscitation and deliverance from grief. 
In tracing such resemblances, the celebrated 
Middleton, writmg from Rome, observes, "We 
see the people worshippmg, at this day, in the 
same temples — at the same altars, — sometimes 
the same images — and always with the same 
ceremonies — as the old Romans.'' 
