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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Metatron explains the Idea their Forefathers had of the Meßiah the Son of God our Lord. It is faid the Name of God was in him, Exod. xxiii. 2i.a that he is call’d by the Name of the Creator13, and that he is the Self-fufficient or Almighty0. He is call’d Metatron„ which is to fay a Lord, and a Meflengerd ; Sejanfagel, becaufe all the Treafures of Wifdom are intrufted to hime; the Ancient, when he afcendeth up to the Throne of Glory, and a Youth, when he returns to the World of Formationf, they reprefenthim greater than all the Princes, more exalted than all the Angels, more excellent in Size, Authority and Glory than ail the Powerful,.more acceptable than all the Servants, and more honoured than all the Hofts 3 they fay he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kingsh ; the Prince of the Face, or Angel of the Prefence of the Lord, the Angel and Prince of Wifdom, of Power and of Glory, of the Law, of the Temple, of all tire many exalted and glorious Princes in Heaven and upon Earth1, the King of Angels, the Prince of the World, and the Keeper of If rad; that all the Upper and Lower Lords are fubjedf to his Power, and that God hath given him Dominion over ail he poffefieth ; that he hath the Privilege to afcend into Heaven to the Throne of God and all Power in the 955 Firmaments1 ; according to them he was the Lawgiver, and Inftrudtor of Mojes, and his particular Office is to receive the Prayers of the Ifra elites, and to make Garlands of them m in order to put them upon the Head of God ; he was fmitten by Anpiel with fiery Blows, to him belonged the Ladder which Jacob faw in a Dream n, and at .the end of the [a] Rabbi Elias in TiftibL, fol. '53. [b] Parafha Berefhith in Gen. 5. v. 24. Rabbi Manahem de Rekanar Comment, in Penta¬ teuch. fol.35. [c] Rab. Elias in Tifhbi, fol. 53. £d] Traditions of the Jews, Voi. II. p. 92. Rab. Bechai, fol. 98. [e] Rabbi Akkivä Othioth, fol. 11. [f] T’radit. of the Jews, Yol. II. p. 94. Lg] Ibid. ib. [h] Barith Menucha, fol. 37. [ i ] Rabbi Elias m Tifhbi, fol. 53. pc] Rab. Akkiva Othioth, fol. 11. Tradit. of the Jews, Vol. II. p. 93. [I] Jalkut Chadafh, fol. 119. [m] Tra- dit. of the Jews, Vol. II. p. 91, 96. [n] Chagiga, fol. 15- Jalkut Xubeni, fol. 25. P.araftia Berefhith. Trad, of the Jews, Vol. II. p. 97* f 2 World

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