(2) Chapter V, 19-22: Anonymous sayings touching upon the
varieties of motives and contrasting the good and evil
dispositions.

(3) Chapter V, 23: Sayings of Judah ben Tema.

(4) Chapter V, 24: The ages of man.

(5) Chapter V, 25, 26: The sayings of Ben Bag Bag and of Ben He
He.

G. Chapter VI: The acquisition of the _Torah;_ praise of the
_Torah_.



LANGUAGE

The language of _Abot_ is easy Mishnaic Hebrew, with portions of four
verses (I, 13; II, 7; V, 25, and V, 26) in Aramaic, which is closely
related to Hebrew. It is worthy of note that these Aramaic portions
originated with the school of Hillel (12).

(12) On the language of the _Mishnah_, see Mielziner,
_Introduction to the Talmud_, pp. 15-16, and Lauterbach in
_Jewish Encyclopedia_, vol II, p. 614. On the use of Aramaic
in the _Mishnah_, see Schurer, _History_, I, ii, p. 8 _et
seq._, and Bacher, in _Jewish Encyclopedia_, art. _Aramaic
Language Among the Jews_. Several centuries before the common
era, Aramaic was the vernacular of the Jews. Hebrew, however,