Hebrew Literature Part 61

166 Lev. xxiii. 17.

167 Exod. xxv. 30.

168 Lev. xxiii. 19.

169 Num. xxviii. 15.

170 Exod. xxviii. 36-38.

171 1 Chron. xxix. 19.

172 It remained uneaten overnight, and therefore must be burned, in accordance with Exod. xii. 10.

173 From the need of a boiler it appears that the wine used at the pa.s.sover was mixed with hot water. The wine itself was always red.

174 If one observed the issue three times on the same day, he could not be considered clean before he brought a sacrifice.

175 In which there is a dead body.

176 The mourner might be too sorrowful to eat, the sick too ill to eat, and the prisoner might be detained in prison, etc.

177 Numbers ix. 10.

178 About fifteen miles from Jerusalem. Modiim or Modin was the city of the Maccabees.

179 Psalms cxiii.-cxviii.

180 Exod. xii. 3.

181 The subst.i.tute refers to one animal changed for another, which had been intended for the pa.s.sover-offering.

182 The following rules are founded on two principles; firstly, that every lamb must have its own numbered company of eaters; and secondly, that no person could be numbered with two companies.

183 It was after the first cup of wine was drunk that our Lord washed the disciples' feet (John xiii. 5; Luke xxii. 17).

184 Deut. xxvi. 5-11.

185 Exod. xiii. 8.

186 Psalm cxiii. 9.

187 Psalm cxiv. 8.

188 The third cup was called the "cup of blessing" (1 Cor. x. 16). It was the one used by our Lord for the inst.i.tution of the holy sacrament.

189 Psalm cx.x.xvi.

190 They may have been overcome with wine (1 Cor. xi. 21).

191 This is explained in the treatise "Hands."

192 Where the counsellors sat.

193 Called Sagan (suffragan) (2 Kings xxv. 18; Jer. lii. 24).

194 Lev. xvi. 6.

195 As might occur from the frequent changes during the second Temple.

196 That he would incense "within" the vail (Lev. xvi. 12, 13), in opposition to the Sadducees, who maintained that the incense should be burned "without."

197 That such an oath was necessary.

198 Or the "index" finger; other trans. the "middle" finger.

199 Or change thyself.

200 Singing to him "Unless the Lord build the house, they labor but in vain that build it," etc. (Psalm cxxvii.).

201 The Jews think that the day of atonement was the day on which Adam sinned, on which Abraham was circ.u.mcised, and on which Moses offered atonement for the sin of the golden calf.

_ 202 I.e._, cast lots, which was done by placing the priests in a row, and bidding them to hold up their fingers. After fixing on a certain number, the cap of one of them was taken off. With this priest the reckoning began, and proceeded till the prearranged number fell on some one of them; and his was the lot. Particular care was taken to count the fingers which were held up, and not to number their persons, as this was considered unlawful. (1 Chron. xxi. 1.)

203 The third lot for burning incense was the most important. It was always done by a fresh man, so that a priest might burn incense only once during his lifetime. (Luke i. 9; Rev. viii. 3, 4.)

204 Or, as you wish.

205 The Gemara says it was so called because Parva, a magician, built this room and digged through from it to see the service of the High Priest on the day of atonement; or else because it was used for storing "bullock-hides."

206 Literally, between the evenings.

207 The mina of the sanctuary was worth about 5 14s., consequently the morning dress cost about 68 8s.

208 The zuz was worth about 6-1/2d., consequently the evening dress cost about 21 13s. 4d.

209 Literally, "cover over"; _i.e._, "atone for."

210 King of Adiabene, a proselyte to Judaism about A.D. 45.

211 The accused woman.

212 See Treatise on "Measurements," ii. 3, note.

213 A. V. "Scapegoat," or for the "devil." Others translate "wholly put away" in reference to the sins of the people, or for "the hard mountain," and others the "demon of dry places." Some, however, think Azazel to be the fallen angel mentioned in the Book of Enoch, and identical with Sammael, the angel of death. Symmachus translates "the goat that departs." Theodotion translates "the goat sent away."

Aquila, "the goat set free." The LXX. and Josephus understand by the term "the averter of ills," and the Vulgate "caper emissarius."

214 A tongue-shaped piece of scarlet wool.