When King Solomon ordered the Temple of Jerusalem to be built, he strictly forbade the use of iron as a support in the construction, even in the smallest details, and he also forbade the use of iron in circumcision, a practice, let it be said in passing and with no intention to offend, that might’ve had its purposes in those days and those deserts, but now, with modern hygiene, strikes me as unnecessary.
Section: Section 15Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua.
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