Tabari, i. p. 147. Footnote 303: Weil, p. 78. Footnote 304: Gen. xv. Footnote 305: Tabari, i. p. 156. Footnote 306: Gen. xiv. 19. The book Jasher also says that Amraphel and Nimrod are the same. Footnote 307: Gen. xiv. 17. Footnote 308: Gen. xiv. 19, 20. Footnote 309: Gen. xiv. 23, 24. Footnote 310: Ps. ix. 8. Footnote 311: Tabari, i. c. xlviii. Footnote 312: Gittin, fol. 56 b; Pirke of R. Eliezer, fol. 49. Footnote 313: Weil, p. 80. Footnote 314: Tabari, i. c. lii.; Abulfeda, p. 25. Footnote 315: Apocrypha de Loto, apud Fabricium, t. i. pp. 428-431. Footnote 316: Solomon Jarschi, Comm. on Moses, xx. 5. Footnote 317: Josh. xii. 24. Footnote 318: Psalm cxiii. 9. Footnote 319: This climax of absurdity is found also in the Mussulman histories of the Patriarch. Footnote 320: Weil, p. 83. Footnote 321: It seems probable that S. Paul alludes to this traditional speech more than once, as for instance Gal. iii. 9. Footnote 322: The same story is told by the Mohammedans: Weil, p. 90. Footnote 323: Gen. xxi. 24-27. Footnote 324: Numbers xxi. 16, 17. Footnote 325: Gen. xxi. 33. Footnote 326: The Mussulmans tell the story of Ishmael almost in every particular the same as that given below. Footnote 327: Exod. iv. 20. Footnote 328: Zech. ix. 9. Footnote 329: When King Sapor heard the R. Samuel explain that Messiah would come riding on an ass, the king said, “I will give him a horse; it is not seemly that he should ride an ass.” “What,” answered the Rabbi, “hast thou a horse with a hundred colours?” (Talmud, Tract. Sanhedrim, fol. 98, col. 1.) Footnote 330: The day is uncertain. Some say it was the 3rd Nisan; others, it was the first of the seventh month, Tischri, New Year’s day; others, that it was the Day of Atonement. Some say Isaac’s age was 37; others say 36; others 26; others 25; others 16; others 13; others, again, say 5; and others say only 2 years. Footnote 331: In the Rabbinic tradition, the type of Christ comes out more distinctly than in Genesis, for here we see Isaac not merely offered by his father, but also giving himself as a free-will offering, immaculate without in his body, and within in his soul. Footnote 332: Might not these words be spoken mystically of Christ? Footnote 333: And these prophetic. Abraham means that God must take care of him in his old age. But they may also be taken by us thus, God must take thy place as the victim. Footnote 334: Here again—it may be fanciful—but I cannot help thinking we have the type continued of Christ’s presence perpetuated in the Church, in the Tabernacle in which the Host is reserved, that all passing by may look thereupon and worship, and “Remember Me” in the adorable Sacrament. With a vast amount of utterly unfounded fable, the Rabbinic traditions may, and probably do, contain much truth. Footnote 335: