the world! An interesting account of this famous trial at Tisza Eszlar, as well as of the literature connected with it, will be found in an article by Dr. Wright, on _The Jews and the Malicious Charge of Human Sacrifice_ in the _Nineteenth Century_, for November, 1883.--_Trans._ [12] It seems that Maimon gives a euphemistic explanation of this word, as I am told its real meaning makes much more intelligible its extreme offensiveness to his mother.--_Trans._ [13] The original runs: "Der Verstand sucht bloss zu _fassen_, die Einbildungskraft aber zu _umfassen_."--_Tr._ [14] That is, _The Branch_ (or _Offspring_) _of David_. See Jeremiah xxiii. 5; xxxiii. 15; Isaiah xi. 1.--_Trans._ [15] The Hebrew word for a globe. [16] This rabbi belonged to a family of eminent linguists. The father, Joseph Kimchi, was one of the numerous Jews who were obliged to flee from Spain to escape the cruel persecutions of the Mohades about the middle of the twelfth century. He left two sons who both followed his favourite studies. The elder, Moses, has the credit of having educated his younger and more illustrious brother, David, whose Hebrew grammar and dictionary continued in general use among scholars for centuries. Kimchi is said to have been powerfully influenced, not only by Maimonides, but also by Aben Esra, who preceded him by nearly a century, and who was one of the most learned scholars, as well as one of the most versatile authors, of his time. (Jost's _Geschichte des Judenthums_, vol. ii., pp. 419-423; and vol. iii, pp. 30-31).--_Trans._ [17] That is, about 100 English miles.--_Trans._ [18] See above, p. 14.--_Trans._ [19] Solomon ben Isaac, as he is more correctly named, or Raschi, as he is also called, was an eminent Talmudic scholar of Troyes in the latter half of the eleventh century. It was his son-in-law, Meïr, and the three sons of Meïr, who may be said to have begun the Tosaphoth, referred to in the text.--_Trans._ [20] As it was at one time throughout all Christendom, and probably under every civilisation at a certain stage of its history.--_Trans._ [21] This seems to be Job xxvii. 17, which in our Authorised Version runs:--"He (a wicked man) may prepare it (raiment), but the just shall put it on." Maimon seems to render it from memory:--"Der Gottlose schafft sich an, und der Fromme bekleidet sich damit."--_Trans._ [22] Evidently viii., 12, rendered in our Authorised Version, "Thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand (pieces of silver), and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred." Maimon translates apparently from memory, "Die tausend Gulden sind für dich, Salomo, und die Zweihundert für die, die seine Früchte bewahren." In my rendering of this the pronoun "his" must be understood in its old English latitude as either neuter or masculine.--_Trans._