75 Origen, Contr. Cels. lib. viii. 76 _Ibid._ lib. vi. 77 Contra Cels. lib. i. 78 _Ibid._ lib. ii. 79 Amongst others, Clemens: Jesus von Nazareth, Stuttgart, 1850; Von der Alme: Die Urtheile heidnischer und jüdischer Schriftsteller, Leipzig, 1864. 80 Adv. Haer. lib. iii; Haer. lxviii. 7. 81 “Quantae traditiones Pharisaeorum sint, quas hodie vocant δευτερώσεις et quam aniles fabulae, evolvere nequeo: neque enim libri patitur magnitudo, et pleraque tam turpia sunt ut erubescam dicere.” 82 Haeres. xiii. 83 Beracoth, xi. _a_. 84 Tract. Sanhedrim, fol. 107, and Sota, fol. 47. 85 Bartolocci: Bibliotheca Maxima Rabbinica, sub. nom. 86 Sepher Nizzachon, n. 337. 87 Eisenmenger: Neuentdecktes Judenthum, I. pp. 231‐7. Königsberg, 1711. 88 Tract. Sabbath, fol. 67. 89 _Ibid._ fol. 104. 90 The passage is not easy to understand. I give three Latin translations of it, one by Cl. Schickardus, the second quoted from Scheidius (Loca Talm. i. 2). “Filius Satdae, filius Pandeirae fuit. Dixit Raf Chasda: Amasius Pandeirae, maritus Paphos filius Jehudae fuit. At quomodo mater ejus Satda? Mater ejus Mirjam, comptrix mulierum fuit.” “Filius Stadae filius Pandirae est. Dixit Rabbi Chasda: Maritus seu procus matris ejus fuit Stada, iniens Pandiram. Maritus Paphus filius Judae ipse est, mater ejus Stada, mater ejus Maria,” &c. Lightfoot, Matt. xxvii. 56, thus translates it: “Lapidârunt filium Satdae in Lydda, et suspenderunt eum in vesperâ Paschatis. Hic autem filius Satdae fuit filius Pandirae. Dixit quidem Rabb Chasda, Maritus (matris ejus) fuit Satda, maritus Pandira, maritus Papus filius Judae: sed tamen dico matrem ejus fuisse Satdam, Mariam videlicet, plicatricem capillorum mulierum: sicut dicunt in Panbeditha, Declinavit ista a marito suo.” 91 פנדירה. As a man’s name it occurs in 2 Targum, Esther vii. 92 Avoda Sava, fol. 27. 93 Talmud, Tract. Beracoth, ix. fol. 61, _b_. 94 Gittin, fol. 90, _a_. 95 Chajigah, fol. 4, _b_. 96 Calla, fol. 18, _b_. 97 Son of Levi, according to the Toledoth Jeschu of Huldrich. 98 In the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, Jesus as a boy behaves without respect to his master and the elders; thence possibly this story was derived. 99 Fol. 114. 100 Justin Mart. Dialog. cum Tryph. c. 17 and 108. 101 Cont. Cels. lib. iii. 102 Lettres sur les Juifs. Œuvres, I. 69, p. 36. 103 Luther’s Works, Wittemberg, 1556, T. V. pp. 509‐535. The passage quoted is on p. 513. 104 Lib. viii. 33. 105 Martyrol. Rom. ad. 1 Januar. 106 Fabricius, Codex Apocryph. N.T. ii. p. 493. 107 Whereas the bitter conflict of Simon Peter and Simon Magus was a subject well known in early Christian tradition.