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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In order to teach us that there is a future State, or Rewards and Punifhments after Death, the Rabbins tell us, that there is no Night in Paradife, but a Light which is never eclipfed or obfcured;a That thofe An- gels, who being worthy to cleave to the Holy and Blefled God, are fufter'd to afcend or defcend, when they walk about in the Paradife, communicate to the Righteous of the Luftre of their Wifdom, which God hath vouchfafed them in Plenty;5 That when one of the Righteous arriveth there, the miniftring Spirits cloathe him in Garments of the Clouds of Glory, put upon his Head two Crowns, and in his Hand eight Myrrh-Plants, and condudl him to Springs of Water, from which flow Rivers of Milk, Wine, Balfam and Honey; That the Righteous dwell under magnificent Canopies, fit at Tables of Pearls and Precious Stones, eat Honey with Joy, drink the Wine preferv’d from the Six Days of the Creation, and hear the Angels fing with harmonious Voices ; That they rejoice, run about, praife the Holy and Blefled God, and pray for the Living: That in each Corner of the Paradife are Eighty times Ten Thoufand Trees, and in the Middle the Tree of Life ; That there are alfo Rofes, Myrrh? Plants and Herbs of great Fragrancy, and Medicinal Virtues. They alfo make Mention of the Size of Hell, of the Force and Vehemence with which it burneth ; of the Angels, who execute Judgment on the Wicked according as they have deferved, of the Abyfs of DeftrudHon, of the State and Punifhment of the Damned: They tell us, that Sheol, is half Fire and half Hail, that the Wicked are tofs’d from the Fire into the Hail, and from the Hail into the Fire; that the Cold is more intolerable than the Fire, that all the Darkness which was before the Creation of the World, is there colleTed together ; that there are Caverns, Scorpions, Barrels of Gall, and Rivers of rank Poifon, which when [ji] Tracht, of the Jews, Voi II. p. 15. [b] Ibid. p. i<£. s *

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