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hron. xvi, 10; Jer. xx, 2; xxxii, 2 sq.; xxxiii, 1 sq.; xxxvii, 15). After the exile it became very customary (Matt, xi, 2; Luke iii, 20; John iii, 24), and was sometimes used to punish religious offences (Acts v, 18,21; viii, 3; Ugg Boots Clearance xii, 4; xxii, 4; xxvi, 10), and in cases of debt (Matt, xviii, 30; comp. Arvieux, i, 411). The most ancient prisons were simply water-cisterns, out of which, since the sides came together above, one could not easily escape without aid (Gen. xxxvii, 20,22). Imprisonment in these was often made the more unpleasant by deep mud (Jer. xxxviii, 6). There were at the gates, or in the watch-houses at the palaces of kings, or the houses of the commanders of the body-guard, who were the executors of criminal sentences, especial state-prisons (Jer. xx, 2; xxxii, 2; Gen. xxxix, 20 sq.; xl, 4; comp. Jer. xxxvii, 15, 20; Harmer, Obs. iii, 250 sq.). A prison of the kind last named is called prison-house (nssriEn I-Pa, 2 Discount Ugg Boots Chron. xvi, 10). The prisoners were kept in chains (Judg. xvi, 21; 2 Sam. iii, 34; Jer. xl, 1). Under the Roman empire they were chained, by one or both hands, to the soldiers who watched them (Acts xii, 4; xxi, 33; Pliny, Ep. x, 65; Seneca, Ep. v, and De tranquil. An. x; A then, v, 213; Joseph. Ant.

xviii, 6,7), as is still the custom in Abyssinia (Rtlppell, Abys. i, 218). Sometimes the Israelites chained them by the feet to a wooden block (Job xiii, 27; xxxiii, 11; Acts xvi, 24; comp. Wetstein in loc.; Jacob, ad Ugg Boots Outlet Lucian. Toxar. p. 104), or by the neck (comp. Aristophanes, Cloudt, 592), or by the hands and feet at once. Such severe imprisonment is to be understood in Jer. xx, 2; xxix, 26, where our version has "in the stocks" (comp. Symraach. (3aaaviarr]pwv, <rrp{/3Xwr>;piov; and the Greek aifttv, Schol. in Aristoph. Plut. p. 476). Poor and meagre fare seems to have added to the severity of the penalty (2 Chron. xviii, 26). An example of lax state imprisonment appears in 1 Kings ii, 37. Visits to prisoners are allowed with comparative freedom in the East (Matt, xxv, 36; Jer. xxxii, 8; see Rosenmliller, Morgenland, v, 101). Roman prison discipline appears especially in the Acts of the Apostles. The keeper of the prison is Uggs Clearance called in Greek ticofiofiXalZ (Acts xvi, 23; xxvii, 36), but once Trpaxrwp (Luke xii, 58), and was armed (Acts xvi, 27). Comp. Pr^toriom. See in general A. Bombardini, De careen et antiquo ejus usu (Padua, 1713).—Winer, i, 402. See Prison. Dung-gate; Dunghill; Dung-port. See under Dcng. Du'ra (Chal.

Dura', S-Pl-W, the circle, i. q. Hebrew *W1, so the Sept. renders, To iripi)3o\ov, but v. r. Ajtipa; Vulg. Dura), the plain where Nebuchadnezzar set op his golden colossus to be adored (Dan. iii, 1). Interpreters Christian Louboutin Sale  usually compare Dura to a city mentioned by Ammian. Marcell. (xxv, 6), situated near the Tigris (Mannert, v, 462); or another of the same name (Atnpa) in Polybius (v, 48,16) and Ammian. Marcell. (xxiii, 5), on the Euphrates, near the mouth of the Chaboras, 7 miles from Carchemish; or, finally, one of a similar name (Acnpa) in Susiana (Ptol. vi, 3,8). Bat these quarters are all too distant from Babylon to have been historically possible, as it is clear from the context that "the plain of Dura" could be no other than that plain (or some part of it) in which Babylon itself was situated (Herod, i, 178), i. e. Shinar (Gen. xi, 2). Even against the first of these locations, the tract a little below Tekrit, on the left bank of the Tigris (Layard, Nin. and Bab. p. 469), where the name Dur is still found, there are the Ugg Boots Sale following objections: (1) this tract probably never belonged to Babylon; (2) at any rate, it is too far from the capital to be the place where tho image was set up, for the plain of Dura was in the province or district