The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Ṗeriod to the Present Time, Volume 3Harper & bros., 1843 - Jews |
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Page 86
... Israel on the separation of the kingdoms . On the return from the Captivity , the Levites are mentioned as dis tinct from the priests ; and are present , as it were , giving authority at the public reading of the law . But they were by ...
... Israel on the separation of the kingdoms . On the return from the Captivity , the Levites are mentioned as dis tinct from the priests ; and are present , as it were , giving authority at the public reading of the law . But they were by ...
Page 98
... Israel , acknowledged the claims of the new Messiah , and openly attached himself to his fortunes : he was called the standard- bearer of the Son of the Star . Rabbi Akiba was said not to be of the pure blood of Israel , but de- scended ...
... Israel , acknowledged the claims of the new Messiah , and openly attached himself to his fortunes : he was called the standard- bearer of the Son of the Star . Rabbi Akiba was said not to be of the pure blood of Israel , but de- scended ...
Page 99
... Israel . But the lovers were secretly mar- ried , and Akiba left his bride immediately , and spent twelve years in study under the tuition of R. Eliezer and R. Joshua . He returned , it is said , with 12,000 disciples . But the ...
... Israel . But the lovers were secretly mar- ried , and Akiba left his bride immediately , and spent twelve years in study under the tuition of R. Eliezer and R. Joshua . He returned , it is said , with 12,000 disciples . But the ...
Page 107
... Israel- itish descent who inhabited the Roman empire ; the other under the Prince of the Captivity , to whom all the eastern Jews paid their allegiance Gibbon has briefly stated the growth of the former of these principalities with his ...
... Israel- itish descent who inhabited the Roman empire ; the other under the Prince of the Captivity , to whom all the eastern Jews paid their allegiance Gibbon has briefly stated the growth of the former of these principalities with his ...
Page 109
... Israel , became voluntary subjects and tributaries to their spiritual sovereign , and united with one mind and one heart to establish their community on a settled basis . It is a singular spectacle to behold a nation dispersed in every ...
... Israel , became voluntary subjects and tributaries to their spiritual sovereign , and united with one mind and one heart to establish their community on a settled basis . It is a singular spectacle to behold a nation dispersed in every ...
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Page 51 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter...
Page 341 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 347 - For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them; but they understood not.
Page 347 - And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Page 341 - But to make Christianity answerable with its life, for the circumstantial truth of each separate passage of the Old Testament, the genuineness of every book, the information, fidelity, and judgment, of every writer in it, is to bring, I will not say great, but unnecessary difficulties, into the whole system.
Page 108 - The numerous remains of that people, though they were still excluded from the precincts of Jerusalem, were permitted to form and to maintain considerable establishments both in Italy and in the provinces, to acquire the freedom of Rome, to enjoy municipal honours, and to obtain at the same time an exemption from the burdensome and expensive offices of society.
Page 133 - He was secretly circumcised, in defiance of the law of Hadrian. His whole life was of the most spotless purity, hence he was called the Holy, or the Holiest of the Holy. R. Jehuda was the author of a new constitution to the Jewish people. He embodied in the celebrated Mischna, or Code of traditional Law, all the authorized interpretations of the Mosaic Law, the traditions, the decisions of the learned, and the precedents of the courts or schools.
Page 338 - Such, according to the best authorities to which we have access, is the number and distribution of the children of Israel ; they are still found in every quarter of the world, under every climate, in every region, under every form of government, wearing the indelible national stamp on their features, united by the close moral affinity of habits and feelings, and, at least the mass of the community, treasuring in their hearts the same reliance on their national privileges, the same trust in the promises...
Page 54 - ... employed in extinguishing the fires about the cloisters. The Romans not merely drove them back, but, entering the sacred space with them, forced their way to the door of the Temple. A soldier, without orders, mounting on the shoulders of one of his comrades, threw a blazing brand into a gilded small doot on the north side of the chambers, in the outer building or Porch.
Page 234 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...