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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$[ 3* ] allways •, And indeed it is inconfiftent with the Notions the Jews have of the Divine Nature, to Delieve in a lite¬ ral Senfe that God prayeth j the firlt and fundamental Point of their Dodtrine is, that God is the Author of the Univerfe ; that all Tnings whatfoever both in Heaven and Earth, were created by him, and are under the Care of that All-wife and bountiful Providence, that it is in his Power to deftroy them : and that if all things iliould perifh, his Happinefs would not be diminifhed nor changed, that he is felf-fufficient to his own Happinefs* and ftands in no Need of any thing or Perfon: They acknowledge that God is rms 13831 na vjs8 p88sni2i the Lord of all the W orld, and that all ftand in Need of him and pray to him, but that he having no Superior cannot pray, for ’föb- to whom could he pray ? By faying therefore, God prays, wears Frontlets and ft tidies the Law, the Rabbins only intended to teach us, that the Practice of thefe Du¬ ties is acceptable in the Sight of God, and to encourage us to perform them carefully, in fetting fuch an excel¬ lent Pattern before us, in telling us, God himfelf, (or as others explain it, the Meffias) prays and reads the Law. The Rabbins in the Talmud Gemar. OT7DH fol. 54. tell us, that feven things were created Defore the World, viz. the Law, Repentance, the Garden of Eden, Gehinnom, the Throne of Glory, the Sanctuary, and the Name of the Mefnas \ or according to others, the Garden of Eden, the Law, the juft People, the If- raelites, the Throne of Glory, Jerufalem; and the Meffias Son of David: Petrus Galatinus in his Arcana CathoL Verii. L. III. c. 15, takes great Pains to refute this foolifh and ridiculous Opinion as he calls it, but R. Eliezera, Berefbit RabbaA, Jalkut ShimonP, Jalkxt RubenP, R. Salomon Pergae, and the Author of the [a] jb? Fol. 3. c. 3, [c] Fol. 7.Col. 1. [djFoi. *3. col. 4. [e] in mW KOtf, p.256. LD Fol. 86. 87. by$

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