_Salting a New-born Infant._--In Ezekiel xvi. 4 we read, "In the day
thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water
to supple thee; _thou wast not salted at all_, nor swaddled at all."
Salting seems to be spoken of as a regular part of the process which a
new-born child underwent amongst the Jews in the days of Ezekiel. Can
any one give me information on this point? Can the salt in baptism
alluded to by SELEUCUS (Vol. iv., p. 163.) have any connexion with this
passage?