Now while--as the author of _Supernatural Religion_ well proves--there is nothing in this which looks like a corroboration of the doctrine taught in the fourth gospel, he omits to state that nearly everything expressed by the pseudo-Hermas in relation to his parabolic conversation with the “Lord” is a plain quotation, with repeated variations, from the _Sohar_ and other kabalistic books. We may as well compare, so as to leave the reader in no difficulty to judge for himself. “God,” says Hermas, “planted the vineyard, that is, He created the people and gave them to His Son; and the Son ... himself cleansed their sins, etc.;” _i.e._, the Son washed them in his blood, in commemoration of which Christians drink wine at the communion. In the _Kabala_ it is shown that the Aged of the Aged, or “_Long-Face_,” plants a vineyard, the latter typifying mankind; and a vine, meaning Life. The Spirit of “_King_ Messiah” is, therefore, shown as washing his garments in _the wine_ from above, from the creation of the world.[492] Adam, or A-Dam is “blood.” The life of the flesh is in the blood (nephesh--soul), _Leviticus_ xvii. And Adam-Kadmon is the Only-Begotten. Noah also plants a vineyard--the allegorical hot-bed of future humanity. As a consequence of the adoption of the same allegory, we find it reproduced in the Nazarene _Codex_. Seven vines are procreated, which spring from Iukabar Ziva, and Ferho (or Parcha) Raba waters them.[493] When the blessed will ascend among the creatures of Light, they shall see Iavar-Zivo, _Lord of_ LIFE, and the First VINE![494] These kabalistic metaphora are thus naturally repeated in the _Gospel according to John_ (xv. 1): “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.” In _Genesis_ (xlix.), the dying Jacob is made to say, “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah (the lion’s whelp), nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh (Siloh) comes.... Binding his colt unto _the vine_, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine, he washed his garments _in wine_, and his clothes _in the blood of grapes_.” Shiloh is “King Messiah,” as well as the Shiloh in Ephraim, which was to be made the capital and the place of the sanctuary. In _The Targum of Onkelos_, the Babylonian, the words of Jacob read: “Until the _King Messiah_ shall come.” The prophecy has failed in the Christian as well as in the kabalistico-Jewish sense. The sceptre has departed from Judah, whether the Messiah has already or will come, unless we believe, with the kabalists, that Moses was the first Messiah, who transferred his soul to Joshua--Jesus.[495]