Hebrew Literature Part 66

410 As the former cla.s.s of intending criminals could at once be killed, so this latter cla.s.s must be guilty of the act, and they are then judged for it.

411 Isa. x.x.x. 20.

412 Isa. lx. 21.

413 Literally, outside.

414 Exod. xv. 26.

_ 415 I.e._, to meditate with the intention to mutter JEHOVAH over a wound.

416 2 Chron. x.x.xiii. 13.

417 Gen. vi. 3.

418 Gen. xi. 8.

419 Gen. xiii. 13.

420 Ps. i. 5.

421 Num. xiv. 37.

422 Num. xiv. 35.

423 Ps. l. 5.

424 Num. xvi. 33.

425 1 Sam. ii. 6.

426 Deut. xxix. 28.

427 Deut. xiii. 13.

428 Deut. xiii. 15.

429 Deut. xiii. 16.

430 Deut. xiii. 17.

431 Deut. xxiv. 7.

432 Deut. xvii. 8.

433 Deut. xvii. 10.

434 Deut. xvii. 12.

435 Now called Yebna.

436 Deut. xvii. 13.

437 Deut. xviii. 19.

438 Literally, strange wors.h.i.+p. It chiefly means the wors.h.i.+p of the stars and other heavenly bodies.

439 Jer. x.x.xiv. 5.

440 Or sugar-cane.

441 For executions.

442 For races.

443 Where harangues were delivered involving life and death.

444 Nor graves.

445 Deut. vii. 26.

446 Hadrian's mixture was b.a.l.l.s of clay saturated with wine and taken on military expeditions. When the soldiers wished to drink, they soaked them in water so that it had a taste of wine, and the mud settled at the bottom of the vessel.

447 The heart torn out of the animal when alive to be offered in idolatrous wors.h.i.+p.

448 A village where calves were offered in idolatry. Consequently the rennet was forbidden, and the cheese made from their rennet was also forbidden.

449 Sol. Song, i. 2. The question is, whether the friends.h.i.+p sprang from the wine or not, and his conclusion is that as the savor is connected with the oil, so is the friends.h.i.+p with the wine, and so is the cheese connected with idolatry.

_ 450 I.e._, for legal defilement.

451 The locusts might be mixed in the basket with wine or liquor, which would cause legal defilement.

452 The Salt Sea generally means in the Talmud the Dead Sea. It is now called by the Arabs "Bahr-Lut," _i.e._, the Sea of Lot.

453 Deut. xiii. 17.

454 The modern Akka (Acre).

455 Deut. vii. 25.

456 Deut. vii. 26.

457 Lest the lettuce might derive profit from the shade of the idolatrous grove.

458 These stones must be arranged as two on the ground, and one over them, and not more than four ells distant from the image, to fulfil the conditions of being an idolatrous offering. If the stones did not fulfil these conditions, an Israelite might use them for building purposes.

459 If the idol be disregarded in time of peace, the heathen have ceased to esteem it as a G.o.d, and Israelites might use it for some purpose.