Tears in Biblical History

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What is Tears?
TEARS
Allusion is supposed to be made in Ps 56:8 to an ancient custom, which was preserved among the Romans, of collecting the falling tears of mourners at funerals and putting them into a bottle or urn, called a "lachrymatory." or "tear-bottle." The vessel was afterward fixed upon the sepulchres of the dead, thus seeming to preserve a memorial of the affection and grief of the survivors.

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