Note 8 — CAP. XXXIX.
Reading edition
1: Confess.
2: Heed.
3: Convenient.
4: Be.
5: Saints.
6: Common people.
7: This arose from a curious ordinance in a.d. 856 of the Khalif Motawakkel, who ordered both Jews & Christians to wear leather girdles; hence those Christians who lived in Syria were called "Christians of the girdle."
8: Tell.