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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Expreffions ; one may eafily perceive that by thofe De¬ vils who have their Origin from Adam and Eve, they mean only the corrupted Nature of Mankind, their Children born in Sin, and their adiual Tranfgreflions. It is for this Reafbn, they fay, that when Sentence of ' Death was pafs’d upon Adam and he perceiv’d his Seed Ihould go to Hell, he forbore to get Children, but the wicked Lilith feeing the ruined and corrupted State of Adam, increafed her Power with her Keliphot, i. e. the Evil Spirits, and laying with Adam againft his Will bore to him many Devils, hurtful Spirits, and Night- Apparitions, that Eve alfo laying with the Male Spirits who were inflamed by her, brought forth Devils, and ■that Cain was not begot by Adam, nor born afüer his Image. The Nephilim or Giants are for the fame rea- fon called Devils, and Rabbi Menachem de Rechanet Iaitha Tubalcains Sifter was the Naama who was the Wife of Shamram and Mother to Afiomedai, of whom the Devils, were born : Wicked Men in general go under the fame Denomination, when it is faid that the World is full of Devils, that Cain begot Devils and Night-Apparit:ionsb, that Noah took fome of them into the Ark, in order to preferve them% and that the Souls of all thofe who perilh’d in the I lood,d and of fome of thofe who built the Tower of Babel were changed into Devils, but nothing fhews more clearly they un- derftood fometimes by Devils Sin and Wickednefs, than their faying, that whofoever committeth a Sin creates a Devil, that thefe Devils pollute and deftroy the World ; that in the Day of Judgment every one of them ihall .cry out and fay, N. N. has created mee and bear Witnefs againft him, and that thofe Devils, who are generated out of the Effufion of Man, aflemble toge¬ ther when he dieth about their deceafed Father in order to touch and to pollute himf. As for the Account the Treatife Lef arieh giveth 8 that hereafter JHD or [a] Tradit. of the Jews, Vol. II. p. no. [bj Ibid. 114. [c] R.s iBechai in Pentat. fol. 18 [d] R- MenaiTeh Niihmaili Chajim, foL jc6o. [e] Atnmude ha Schifa, fol, 51. j_jf] Tradit. of the Jews, you ii* p. 113* is! ltH* P” 139* Evil

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