Egg
Eggs are mentioned in a law that allows for taking the young birds but not the mother; it is significant that the taking of the eggs is not mentioned. It has been suggested that the egg is of a serpent and is figurative of the schemes of evil men.
A roasted egg in Jewish Ceremony are also to be eaten first at the Seder meal. Eggs mixed with ashes are used on the eve of the Ninth of Ab (falls on the first day of Passover) as a sign of mourning. The eggs of Passover represents life. (Singer. 1901-1960 p. 54). ) Eggs of unclean birds, or of birds suffering from a visible sickness are forbidden to eat.
If a bird’s nest falls before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they are young ones, or eggs, of the mother sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. (Deuteronomy 22:6). The ostrich leaves the egg in the warm sand and allows it to come to maturity through the heat of the sun (Job 39:14). The egg of a serpent and is figurative of the schemes of evil men. (Isaiah 59:5).
The custom of collecting eggs deserted in the nest is made use of in the fine descriptions of Isaiah. (Isaiah 10:14). Jeramiah introduces the concept of a fool by comparing fools to the partridge who sits on eggs, and does not hatch men. The person who gets rich dishonestly, or by ways that are not right, shall leave their riches in the midst of his days and his end shall be a fool. (Jeramiah17:11). Luke 11:12 compared an egg with a scorpion, which is said to be very like an egg in its appearance, at time it would be difficult to distinguished from an egg. Job 6:6 asks the question about the (“the white of an egg” not having taste like an unsavory food to be eaten without salt.
Job speaking to Eliphaz about how the LORD gave goodly wings unto the peacocks and wings and feathers unto the ostrich which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust. Then forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break the eggs. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers. She labors is in vain without fear because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has He imparted to her understanding. (Job 39:13-17)
The medical attributes of both the whites and the yokes of eggs can be seen through the eyes of Pliny the Elder. The yolk of a single egg, swallowed raw by itself without being allowed to touch the teeth, is remarkably good for cough, discharge or flowing of fluid matter of the chest, and irritations of the fauces which is the arched opening at the back of the mouth leading to the pharynx. It is also used, both internally and externally, in a raw state, as a leading cure for the sting of the hemorrhoids; and it is highly beneficial for the kidneys, for irritations and ulcerations of the bladder, and for bloody expectorations. Used for dysentery, the yolks of five eggs are taken raw in wine, mixed with the ashes of the shells, poppy-juice, and wine.
Eggs become entirely transformed into yolk, on being removed after the hen has sat upon them for three days. The chicks that are found within the shell are used for strengthening a disordered stomach, being eaten with half a nut-gall (a type of plant gall that resembles a nut), and no other food taken for the next two hours. They are given also for dysentery, boiled in the egg with astringent wine, and an equal quantity of olive oil and polenta or cornmeal. The pellicle or membrane that lines the shell is used, either raw or boiled, for the cure of cracked lips; and the shell itself, reduced to ashes, is taken in wine for discharges of blood: care must be taken, however, to burn it without the pellicle. The ashes of the shell, applied topically with myrrh, stops excessive menstruation. The shell of an egg is remarkably strong. When it is set upright, no force or weight can break it, unless a slight inclination be made to one side or other of the circumference. Eggs are used for coughs, eggs are boiled and beaten up with honey, or else raw, with raisin wine and an equal quantity of olive oil Where injuries have been inflicted by serpents, boiled eggs are used as a liniment, beaten up with nasturtium. Eggs are the only diet which, while it gives nutrients in sickness, and does not load the stomach. The shell of an egg becomes soft when steeped in vinegar: it is by the aid of eggs thus prepared, and kneaded up with meal into bread, that patients suffering from the cœliac flux (Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine) are often restored to strength. The yolks are employed alone, boiled hard in vinegar and roasted with ground pepper, when wanted to stop diarrhea. The treatment of dysentery, there is a remedy, prepared in the following manner: an egg is emptied into a new earthen vessel, which done, in order that all the proportions may be equal, fill the shell, first with honey, then with oil, and then with vinegar; beat them up together, and thoroughly incorporate them: the better the quality of the several ingredients, the more effective the mixture will be. (Pliny the Elder. 1855. Pgs. 5385-91.
References:
Pliny the Elder. (1855). The Natural History, ed. John Bostock. Medford, MA: Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Singer, Isidore. (1901-1960). Vol. 5, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 12 Volumes, ed. New York; London: Funk & Wagnalls.
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