an accident, or in any criminal way, but through a dream, or any lustful imagination; what is commonly called nocturnal pollution (c): then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even; and so the Egyptian priests, when it happened that they were defiled by a dream, they immediately purified themselves in a laver (d) so the Jewish priests did when the like happened to them asleep in the temple (e); see Deu 23:10 . (c) "----& noctem flumine purgas." Pers. Satyr. 2. (d) Chaeremon. apud Porphyr. de Abstinentia, l. 4. c. 7. (e) Misn. Tamid. c. 1. sect. 1.