86 POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZUOLOGY.

showing for what purposes, besides sale, hogs had been
reared by the Jews: ‘It is forbidden to rear any hog in
order to obtain profit from its skin, or from its fat, for
anointing or for light.’ From this it would appear that
the Jews had been wont to make ointments with hog’s lard,
and that they did not exclusively use oil for lights, but fat
also, which was probably done, according to a method we
have often seen in the East, by introducing a wick into a
lump of grease, which is set in a lamp, or in a round, hol-
low vessel made for the purpose*.”

That this prohibition was not strictly observed seems pro-
bable, from the account of this “herd of swine ;” but they
may have belonged to the heathen, who certainly lived with

‘the Jews in the towns of the neighbourhood mentioned.

* My readers will all recollect another mention of this
animal which occurs in Matthew vii., “Give not that which
is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before
swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn
again and rend you.” The formidable tusks of the oriental
wild boar would give great force to the latter part of this
verse, to those who had seen the animal, or suffered from its
ravages in their fields and vineyards.

* Pictorial Bible: notes to Luke viii,