_Sanhedrin_, fol. 104, col. 2. When the disciples of Shamai and Hillel increased in Israel, contention increased along with them, so much so, that the one law became as two laws (and these contradictory). _Soteh_, fol. 47, col. 2. If two parties deposit money with a third, one a single manah and the other two hundred, and both afterward appear and claim the larger sum, the depositary should give each depositor one manah only, and leave the rest undivided till the coming of Elijah. _Bava Metzia_, fol. 37, col. 2. "Till Elijah comes" is a phrase which is in use among the Jews to express postponement forever, like _ad Kalendas Græcas_. It is applied to questions that would take Elijah to settle, which, it is believed, he will not appear to do till doomsday. "And I will make thy windows of agates" (Isa. liv. 12). Two of the angels in heaven, Gabriel and Michael, once disputed about this: one maintained that the stone should be an onyx, and the other asserted it should be a jasper; but the Holy One--blessed be He!--said unto them, "Let it be as both say, which, in Hebrew, abbreviated, is an agate." _Bava Bathra_, fol. 75, col. 1. "The horseleech has two daughters, crying, Give! give!" (Prov. xxx. 15.) Mar Ukva says, "This has reference to the voice of two daughters crying out from torture in hell, because their voice is heard in this world crying, 'Give! give!'--namely--heresy and officialism." _Avodah Zarah_, fol. 17, col. 1. Rashi says heresy here refers to the "heresy of James," or, in other words, Christianity. Two cemeteries were provided by the judicial authorities, one for beheaded and strangled criminals, and the other for those that were stoned or burned. When the flesh of these was consumed, they collected the bones and buried them in their own place, after which the relations came and saluted the judge and the witnesses, and said, "We owe you no grudge, for you passed a just judgment." _Sanhedrin_, fol. 46, col. 1. Alas! for the loss which the world has sustained in the degradation of the helpful serpent. If the serpent had not been degraded, every Israelite would have been attended by two of kindly disposition, one of which might have been sent to the north, and the other to the south, to bring for its owner precious corals and costly stones and pearls. _Sanhedrin_, fol. 59, col. 2. Here are two or three other sayings from the Talmud relative to the serpent. Benjamin the son of Jacob, Amram the father of Moses, and Jesse the father of David all died, not because of their own sin (for they had none, says Rashi), but because of the (original) sin committed under the serpent's temptation. _Shabbath_, fol. 55, col. 2. No man was ever injured by a serpent or scorpion in Jerusalem. _Yoma_, fol. 21, col. 1.