* Take to.
   This was a significant command; not only referring to the
   fiery furnace, which was a type of the slavery of the
   Israelites, but to a cruel rite common among the Egyptians.
   They had several cities styled Typhonian, in which at
   particular seasons they sacrificed men, who were burnt alive;
   and the ashes of the victim were scattered upwards in the
   air, with the view, probably, that where any atom of dust was
   carried, a blessing was entailed.  The like, therefore, was
   done by Moses, though with a different intention, and more
   certain effect.  See Bryant, pp. 93-106.

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