Volume 1

Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained / By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin.

Johann Andreas Eisenmenger

Date:: 1748

Credit: Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained / By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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of the feveral Countries and Nations. They conclude from Deuter. XXXII. 8. that the LXX different Na¬ tions and from Daniel X. 13. that each of thefe Nations has an Angel for its Ruler and Protestor, that the Arch¬ angel Michaela prefides over the IJr a elites, Raphael over the Empire of Perfia, jfurkab over Hail, Gabriel over the Fire : They make of the Angels a kind of Me¬ diators between God and Men, and in tnr? m Fol. XX. it is faid, that every Man hath his Angel, who is his Mazzal or Interceffor, and who prefents his Prayers to God, intreating him to hear them. They add that there is nothing in the whole Univerfe, not even the lead Herb, that is not under the Care of a particular Angel, who prefides over it. The three famous Seels among; the Jews. viz. the Pharifees, the Sadducees, and the E[Jenes, differed chiefly in their Syftems of Philofophy, Jofephus, who in his Antiquities of the Jews, Lib. XIII. c. 9 , calls them T^siV e£/$>g<7S/£, three Sedls, fpeaks of them Lib. XVIII. c. 2. under the Name of rrfL tpihoaoyicu, three Philofo- phies : He informs us in the firft of thefe two Pa (Tages, that they differ’d orzj tcov dv^^uoriveev or^dyufeav^ about Human Things, or philofophical Queftions; and in the fecond he expreffeth himfelf thus : ’ixLatay, q&ko&o* 01OJL YXTcLV) £& T6 TT&vC d,§yofhs 7TG0V TTCtTJlCt)V C4TS Tdie *E<J<JWCOV, J Y! TOV 'ZctS'S'XiLClWV Ttfw L& QtkQVQQXV Oi cr&ioi Kiy'oiAZvoi. The Jews from ancient Dimes had three Syfiems of Philofophy, that of the Eifenes, that of the Sadducees, and the thirds which thofe called Pharifees fiudied and taught. The Pharifees were the mod nu¬ merous, and as St. Paul obferveth, the moil ftridteff Sect, not only the learned Men, but alfo the common People nded with them : They were Stoics, and fubmit- ted all Things to Fate : Jofephus a faith ufjLet^im L w$oo,d.’7flx<n Taflet, they aferibe all Things to Fate and God : according to them it is in Man’s Power to do Good or [a] Enn vDipS** f. 46. [b] Gem. f. xiS, [c} EHil f. 147. [d] Jofaph. de Bella Jud. Lib,II. e. 12- Antiq. Lib. XIII. c. 9, & Lib. XVIII, c, 2. Evil,

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