[Footnote 3: I dare not decide upon the age of those buildings, nor consequently affirm that Jesus taught in any of them. How great would be the interest attaching to the synagogue of Tell-Houm were we to admit such an hypothesis! The great synagogue of Kefr-Bereim seems to me the most ancient of all. Its style is moderately pure. That of Kasyoun bears a Greek inscription of the time of Septimus Severus. The great importance which Judaism acquired in Upper Galilee after the Roman war, leads us to believe that several of these edifices only date back to the third century--a time in which Tiberias became a sort of capital of Judaism.] [Footnote 4: 2 _Esdras_ viii. 4; Matt. xxiii. 6; Epist. James ii. 3; Mishnah, _Megilla_, iii. 1; _Rosh Hasshana_, iv. 7, etc. See especially the curious description of the synagogue of Alexandria in the Talmud of Babylon, _Sukka_, 51 _b_.] [Footnote 5: Philo, quoted in Eusebius, _Praep. Evang._, viii. 7, and _Quod Omnis Probus Liber_, Sec. 12; Luke iv. 16; _Acts_ xiii. 15, xv. 21; Mishnah, _Megilla_, iii. 4, and following.] [Footnote 6: [Greek: Archisunagogos].] [Footnote 7: [Greek: Presbyteroi].] [Footnote 8: [Greek: Huperetes].] [Footnote 9: [Greek: Apostoloi], or [Greek: angeloi].] [Footnote 10: [Greek: Diakonos]. Mark v. 22, 35, and following; Luke iv. 20, vii. 3, viii. 41, 49, xiii. 14; _Acts_ xiii. 15, xviii. 8, 17; _Rev._ ii. 1; Mishnah, _Joma_, vii. 1; _Rosh Hasshana_, iv. 9; Talm. of Jerus., _Sanhedrim_, i. 7; Epiph., _Adv. Haer._, xxx. 4, 11.] [Footnote 11: Inscription of Berenice, in the _Corpus Inscr. Graec._, No. 5361; inscription of Kasyoun, in the _Mission de Phenicie_, book iv. [in the press.]] [Footnote 12: Matt. v. 25, x. 17, xxiii. 34; Mark xiii. 9; Luke xx. 11, xxi. 12; _Acts_ xxii. 19, xxvi. 11; 2 _Cor._ xi. 24; Mishnah, _Maccoth_, iii. 12; Talmud of Babylon, _Megilla_, 7 _b;_ Epiph., _Adv. Haer._, xxx. 11.]