COSTA, DA
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COSTUME
« Goflpel, and soon after entered the Episcopal Theo- gical Seminaiy at New Haven. From the seminary- ) went to Tennessee, with the commendation and motion of the bishop as a ^^lay preacher." Here i became acquainted for the first time with Com- srland Presbyterians, *' participated in their eztraor- naiy revivals, attended their delightful camp-meet- Lgs." He was especially pleased with their success in inning souls to Christ, and, after a long, prayerful, id hard struggle, he felt it his duty to cast his lot ith them. In the year 1822 he was ordained by the nderson presbytery of this church. He taught very iccessfully for some time in a classical school in Elk- )n, Ky. He was the first president of Cumberland k>llege at Princeton, Ky., over which he presided for ears with great honor and success. When Cumber- uid University was started some years later at Leb- Qon, Tennessee, he accepted a call to the first presi- ency of that institution. He presided over it until ; had arisen to be one of the foremost institutions in to entire South. He was for years, and up to his eath, president of the Board of Foreign and Domestic Gssions of the C. P. Church. He also started and udntained for several years successfully a weekly re- Igious paper called the ** Banner of Peace," which is till (1867) being published at Nashville, Tenn. Dr. kwsett pnblished The L{fe and Timea ofEwing, which ontains a history of the early years of the C. P. Church. Hr. Cossett was a man of great learning nd ability, and in his younger days was a very suc- essfid preacher. He was indefiitigable in his efforts 0 promote education among all classes, but especially a the ministry. In all his intercourse with men, ither personally, by letter, or as a controvertist, he lever deviated firom the rules of honorable Christian lificossion, or the manners of the Christian gentleman, ie died at Lebanon, Tennessee, July 8, 1863.
Costa, Da. See Da Costa.
Costobttma (Ko9r5/3apoc). 1. An Idumaan of tonorable connections, married by Herod to his sister ^ome, and appointed governor of Idnmna, but after- wards renounced by her on pretext of his favoring the !8cape of ^e sons of Babas, the last scions of the Hyr- :anian dynasty, and eventually slain by Herod (Jo- lephus, Ant. xv, 7, 8-10).
2. A relative of Agrippa, and a ringleader of the Si- arii in their excesses at Jerusalem (Joeephus, War, M,9,4),
Costume, OitiBirrAL. The subject of the style )f dress of the ancient Hebrews is involved in much )b8cority and doubt. Sculptured monuments and ^8 afford us all needful information respecting the ipparel of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Per- nans, Greeks, and Romans ; and even Uie garb worn ^y the barbarous nations b perpetuated in the menu- nents of their antagonists and conquerors. But the mcient Hebrews have left no monuments, no figures )f themselves ; and the few figures which have been 'apposed to represent Jews in the monuments of Egypt ind Persia are so uncertain that their authority re- jnains to be established before we can rely upon the information which they convey. There are, however, nany allusions to dress in the Scriptures, and these fonn the only source of our positive information. Hwy are often, indeed, obscure, and of uncertain in- ^rotation, but they are invaluable in so far as they iiiable us to compare and verify the information de- rivable ftx)m other sources.
!• The range of inquiry into momanadaL costume is reiy limited. It is a common mistake to talk of '^ Oriental costume" as if it were a uniform thing, "hereas, in fact, the costumes of the Asiatic nations ^er fkr more firom one another than do the costumes of the different nations of Europe. That this was also ^ case anciently is shown by the monuments, in thick the costumes of Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylo- II.— L L
nians, Persians, Medes, Syrians, and Greeks 6Mkit as much firom one another as do the costumes of the mod- em Syrians, Egjrptians, Arabs, Turks, and Persians. It is therefore neariy useless to examine the monu^ mental costume of any nation, remote fh>m Palestine, for the purpose of ascertaining the costume of the an- cient Hebrews. Syria, Arabia, Egypt, and, to some extent, Assyria, Persia, and Babylonia, are the only counlries where monuments would be likely to afford any useful information ; but Arabia has left no monu- mental figures, and Syria none of sufficiently ancient date, while those of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia depict few scenes of social life ; and it is left for Egypt to supply nearly all the information likely to be of use. But the Egyptians and the Hebrews were an exceedingly different people ; and the climates which they inhabited were also so different as to nece$HtcUe a greater difference of food and dre$$ than might be presupposed of countries so near to each other. It is true that the Jewish nation was cradled in Egypt; and this circumstance may have had some influence on ceremonial dresses and the ornaments of women ; but we do not find that nations circumstanced as the Jews were readily adopt the costumes of other nation?, especially when their residence in Egypt was always regarded by them as temporary, and when their rai- ment was of home manufacture — spun and woven by the women fh>m the produce of Uieir fiocks (Exod. XXXV, 25). We find also that, immediately after leav- ing Egypt, the principal article of dress among the He- brews was some ample woollen garment, fit to sleep in (Exod. xxii, 27), to which nothing similar is to be seen among the costumes of Eg3rpt.