Footnote
b Bathing in the Nile “was a common practice in ancient Egypt,” observes Cook’s Commentary. “The Nile was worshipped as an emanation . . . of Osiris, and a peculiar power of imparting life and fertility was attributed to its waters.”
b Bathing in the Nile “was a common practice in ancient Egypt,” observes Cook’s Commentary. “The Nile was worshipped as an emanation . . . of Osiris, and a peculiar power of imparting life and fertility was attributed to its waters.”