Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala by Various
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but with Me one second is never changed for another. Shall Job be now
changed by Me, therefore, into an enemy. (Comp. Job ix. 17, and xxxiv. 35.) _Bava Bathra_, fol. 16, cols. 1, 2. A generation can have one leader only, and not two. _Sanhedrin_, fol. 8, col. 1. "Like the hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces" (Jer. xxiii. 29). As a hammer divideth fire into many sparks, so one verse of Scripture has many meanings and many explanations. Ibid., fol. 34, col. 1. In the Machser for Pentecost (p. 69) God is said to have "explained the law to His people, face to face, and on every point ninety-eight explanations are given." Adam was created one without Eve. Why? That the Sadducees might not assert the plurality of powers in heaven. Ibid., fol. 37, col. i. As the Sadducees did not believe in a plurality of powers in heaven, but only the Christians, in the regard of the Jews, did so (by their profession of the doctrine of the Trinity), it is obvious that here, as well as often elsewhere, the latter and not the former are intended. |
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