Salute
Salute
Salute, Mat 10:12; Salutation, Luk 1:41. The salutations of the Jews were usually of a religious characterat least, in formand were attended with much ceremony, as they are to this day among the orientals. Sometimes there was nothing but the simple exclamation, “The Lord be with you!” or “Peace be with you!” To this last and most common form striking allusion is made by our Saviour. Joh 14:27; Joh 20:19; Joh 20:26. It passed into the epistolary salutation. Rom 1:7, etc. The time occupied in the ceremonies of salutation, repeatedly bowing, kissing the beard, etc., was often very considerable, Gen 33:3-4, and hence the caution in 2Ki 4:29; Luk 10:4, against saluting.