108 Wagenseil: Tela ignea Satanae. Hoc est arcani et horribiles Judaeorum adversus Christum Deum et Christianam religionem libri anecdoti; Altdorf, 1681. 109 Nob was a city of Benjamin, situated on a height near Jerusalem, on one of the roads which led from the north to the capital, and within sight of it, as is certain from the description of the approach of the Assyrian army in Isaiah (x. 28‐32). 110 Herod put Alexander Hyrcanus to death B.C. 30. Alexandra, the mother of Hyrcanus, reigned after the death of Jannaeus, from B.C. 79 to B.C. 71. 111 Sozomen, Hist. Eccl. ii. 1. 112 Acta Sanct. Mai. T. I. pp. 445‐451. 113 Ps. lxix. 22. 114 Isa. liii. 5. 115 Rome. Simon Cephas is Simon Peter, but the miraculous power attributed to him perhaps belongs to the story of Simon Magus. 116 Isa. i. 14. 117 Hosea i. 9. 118 Matt. xix. 28. 119 The Oelberg was especially characteristic of German churches, and was erected chiefly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They remain at Nürnberg, Xanten, Worms, Marburg, Donauwörth, Landshut, Wasserburg, Ratisbon, Klosterneuburg, Wittenberg, Merseburg, Lucerne, Bruges, &c. 120 Mááse, c. 188. I have told the story more fully in the Christmas Number of “Once a Week,” 1868. 121 Joh. Jac. Huldricus: Historia Jeschuae Nazareni, a Judaeis blaspheme corrupta; Leyden, 1705. 122 The mystery of the chariot is that of the chariot of God and the cherubic beasts, Ezekiel i. The Jews wrote the name of God without vowels, Jhvh; the vowel points taken from the name Adonai (Lord) were added later. 123 The story is somewhat different in the Talmudic tract Calla, as already related. 124 From Mizraim, Egypt. 125 Evidently the author confounds John the Baptist with John the Apostle. 126 Judas Iscarioth. In St. John’s Gospel he is called the son of Simon (vi. 71, xiii. 2, 26). Son of Zachar is a corruption of Iscarioth. The name Iscarioth is probably from Kerioth, his native village, in Judah. 127 Isa. lxiii. 1‐3. Singularly enough, this passage is chosen for the Epistle in the Roman and Anglican Churches for Monday in Holy Week, with special reference to the Passion. 128 Gen. xxxi. 47. 129 Isa. ii. 3. 130 1 Sam. ii. 6. 131 Lev. xxiv. 16. 132 This is taken from Sanhedrim, fol. 43. 133 It is worth observing how these two false witnesses disagree in almost every particular about our blessed Lord’s birth and passion. 134 This is probably taken from the story of Simon Magus in the Pseudo‐ Linus. Simon flies from off a high tower. In the Apocryphal Book of the Death of the Virgin, the apostles come to her death‐bed riding on clouds. Ai is here Rome, not Capernaum.