For a comparison of other parts of _Abot_ with the New
Testament see Feibig, _Pirque 'aboth_, especially the
_Nachwort_, pp. 42-43, and G. Friedlander, _ibid._, _passim_.
It seems that originally _Abot_ ended here, as in the
_Machzor Vitry_. The verses which follow were added from
other sources. See Bacher, _Agada der Tanaiten_, I, 378;
Taylor, _ibid._, p. 95, n. 46, p. 96, n. 47; Hoffmann, _Die
erste Mischna_, p. 30; _idem_, _Abot_, p. 358, notes 106 and
108; and Strack, _Spruche_, p. 46, notes _t_ and _u_.

(60) Taylor makes this verse an _addendum_ to chapter V, and
calls it "The Ages of Man." Cf. Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of
Man." See in the _Jewish Encyclopedia_, art. _Ages of Man in
Jewish Literature_, _The Seven_, and Schechter, _Studies_, I,
pp. 299-300.

(61) The _Mishnah_ is the oral or unwritten law based on the
written law contained in the Pentateuch (see chapter I, n. 1).
The _Mishnah_, _par excellence_, is the codification made by
Judah ha-Nasi (see chapter II, n. 1). It is divided into six
orders or sections known as _sedarim_. They are (1) _Zeraim_,
"seeds," which contains the laws regarding the cultivation of
the land and its products, introduced by a treatise concerning
prayer and benedictions (_Berachot_); (2) _Mode_, "festivals,"
treating of the laws of the Sabbath and the festivals; (3)
_Nashim_, "women," regulations concerning marriage and
divorce; (4) _Nezikin_, "injuries" or "damages," civil and
criminal law; (5) _Kodashim_, "holy things," the laws of
sacrifice and of the service of the Temple; and (6) _Tohorot_,
"purifications," dealing with the clean and the unclean. Each