Yet in minute legal observances, the Galileans were, for the most part, much more rigid in interpreting and following the law of Moses, than the inhabitants of Judea, as is abundantly shown by Lightfoot in his numerous Talmudic quotations, (_Centuria Chorographica_ chapter 86,) where the comparison is, on many accounts, highly favorable to such of the Galileans as pretended to observe and follow the Jewish law at all. _Thy accent betrays thee._――Lightfoot is very rich in happy illustrations of this passage, (Centuria Chorographica chapter 87.) He has drawn very largely here from the Talmudic writers, who are quite amusing in the instances which they give of the dialectic differences between the Galileans and the Judeans. Several of the puns which they give, would not be accounted dull even in modern times, and indeed, the Galilean brogue seems to have been as well marked, and to have given occasion for nearly as much wit as that of Ireland. The Galileans, thus marked by dialect as well as by manners, held about the same place in the estimation of the pure Judean race, as the modern Irish do among those of Saxon-English tongue and blood; and we cannot better conceive of the scorn excited in the refined Jews by the idea of a Galilean prophet with his simple disciples, than by imagining the sort of impression that would be made, by a raw Irishman attempting the foundation of a new sect in London or Boston, with a dozen rough and uneducated workmen for his preachers and main supporters. _The bright light of the fire shining on his face_, &c.――This incident is taken from Luke xxii. 56, where the expression in the common version is, “a certain maid saw him as he sat by the _fire_.” But in the original Greek this last word is φῶς, (_phos_,) which means “light,” and not “fire;” and it is translated here in this peculiar manner, because it evidently refers to the light of the _fire_, from its connection with the preceding verse, where it is said that “Peter sat down among them ‘before’ the _fire_ which they had kindled;” the word fire in this passage being in the Greek πυρ, (_pur_,) which is never translated otherwise. But the unusual translation of the word φῶς, by “fire” in the other verse, though it gives a just idea of Peter’s position, makes a common reader lose sight of the prominent reason of his detection, which was, that the “_light_ of the fire” shone on his face.