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Now there is in that place a tower that is fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all around it a circular rim sloping steeply on every side into the ashes.
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Verse 5. Down. A beam was laid across the walls, on which the criminal, having been well regaled with wine, was placed till he fell among the ashes. V. Max. ix. 2.—Hystaspes invented this punishment. Calmet.—Prospect. Greek “organ, (or round instrument)” (Prot.) like a wheel, ( Calmet.) “hanging (or whirling a person) on all sides headlong over the ashes. Thence all pushed him who was guilty of sacrilege, or of other crimes, forward to ruin.” Bible.—Syr. passes over verse 5 and 6. Calmet.
Greek contrivance or machine.
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