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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
It was a military custom of antiquity for the conqueror to place his foot upon the vanquished. This custom, frequently represented in sculpture on many an Egyptian temple wall, is referred to in
See Footstool.
To "fall on the neck" of a person is a very usual mode of salutation in the East (
Readiness for work is expressed by "putting one’s neck to the work" (
The Lord Jesus speaks of certain persons for whom it were better to have had a millstone put around the neck and to have been drowned in the sea. The meaning is that even the most disgraceful death is still preferable to a life of evil influence upon even the little ones of God’s household (