368 The Jewish year is composed of twelve lunar months. It is adapted to the solar year by the use of an intercalary month called Veaddar—the additional Addar. Every nineteen years there are seven occasions on which this embolismic month must be introduced to prevent the various feasts revolving over the four seasons of the year, like the Moslem fast of Ramadhan. Formerly the Sanhedrin arranged this intercalary month to suit the harvest, so that if it were late, the wave sheaf and other observances should still be kept according to their proper dates. When, however, the Sanhedrin was suppressed by the Emperor Constantine, Hillel II of Tiberias ruled that an intercalary month of twenty-nine days should be added in the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 17th, and 19th years of the Metonic Cycle. This decision has since remained the Jewish standard for reckoning time. 369 Deut. xxi. 4. 370 Deut. xx. 5, 9. 371 Lev. xix. 24. 372 Deut. xiv. 22-25. 373 Exod. xxi. 29. 374 Num. xi. 17. 375 Num. xxxv. 24, 25. A congregation, or “minyan,” must not be less than ten men. If there be 10,000 women they cannot form a minyan. The Lord Jesus more mercifully promises His presence to “two or three gathered together.” Matt. xviii. 20. 376 Num. xiv. 27. 377 Exod. xxiii. 2. 378 Exod. xxiii. 2. 379 The Great Sanhedrin could whip a high-priest for certain offences, and afterward restore him to his office. 380 Deut. xxv. 9. 381 Lev. xxi. 12. 382 2 Sam. iii. 35. 383 2 Sam. xii. 8. 384 2 Sam. iii. 31. 385 Deut. xvii. 19. 386 Deut. xvii. 15. 387 Lev. xix. 16. 388 Prov. xi. 13. 389 Lev. xxiv. 22. 390 This rule was violated in the case of our Lord Jesus Christ. Matt. xxvi. xxvii.; Mark xiv.; Luke xxii. xxiii.; John xix. 391 Gen. iv. 10. 392 Lev. v. 1. 393 Prov. xi. 10. 394 Before executing a criminal, a quantity of frankincense in a cup of wine was given to him to stupefy him and render him insensible to pain. The compassionate ladies of Jerusalem generally provided this draught at their own cost. This custom was in obedience to Prov. xxxi. 6, “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.” 395 Lev. xxiv. 14. 396 Josh. vii. 19, 20, 25 397 Deut. xvii. 7. 398 Deut. xxi. 23. 399 This supposes a man sorrowful, because he is obliged to punish his own son. _ 400 I.e._, the Divine Presence. The luminous cloud of glory in the Holy of Holies. 401 The words in the original, “Baal Aob,” are supposed by some to denote a ventriloquist from “Aob,” meaning a “bottle” or “stomach.” “Aob” seems, however, much more likely to be allied to the Coptic word for “a serpent” or “Python.” Acts xvi. 16. 402 Matt. xxvi. 65.