[789] Men. 53 b.
[790] Gitt. 7 a.
[791] Gitt. 88 a.
[792] Jer. Yoma i. 1; Yoma 9 a, and many other passages.
[793] Yoma 9 b.
[794] Jer. Yoma i. 1.
[795] Nidd. 13 b.
[796] Yoma 19 b.
[797] For all these points comp. Ber. 58 b; 59 a; Sot. 48 a; Shabb. 138 b; Baba B. 12 a, b.
[798] Vayyikra R 19.
[799] Sukk. 55 b.
[800] Pesiqta, 1 ed. Buber, p. 145 a, last lines.
[801] Midr, on Ps.cxxxvii.
[802] Pesiqta 148 b.
[803] This is the Pesiqta, not that which is generally quoted either as Rabbathi or Sutarta.
[804] Chag. 13 b.
[805] This in very many Rabbinical passages. Comp. Castelli, II Messia, p. 176, note 4.
[806] Shemoth R. 2. ed. Warsh. p. 7 b, lines 12 &c.
[807] In proof they appeal to such passages as 2 Chr. vii. 16; Ps. iii. 4; Cant. ii. 9, proving it even from the decree of Cyrus (Ezra i. 3, 4), in which God is spoken of as still in desolate Jerusalem.
[808] The passage from Yalkut on Is. lx. 1 is quoted in full in Appendix IX.
[809] Ber. 3 a; 59 a.
[810] Pesiqta 119 b; 120 a.
[811] Jer. Yoma i. 1, ed. Krot. p 38 c, last part, Sanh. 97 b, 98 a.
[812] Midr. on Cant. v. 2, ed. Warsh. p. 25 a; Sanh. 98 a.
[813] Pirqé de R. Eliez. 43 end.
[814] On Lam. v. 21, ed. Warsh. vol. iii. p. 77 a.
[815] Tanch. on Ex. xv. 1, ed. Warsh. p. 86 b.
[816] On Jer. xxxi. 9.
[817] Tanch. on Gen. xiv. 2, ed. Warsh.
[818] Sanh. 97 b 98 a.
[819] The reader will find these discussions summarised at the close of Appendix IX.
[820] Sanh. 98 a and b.
[821] See, on the whole subject, also Debar. R. 2.
[822] We put aside, as universally repudiated, the opinion expressed by one Rabbi, that Israel's Messianic era was past, the promises having been fulfilled in King Hezekiah (Sanh. 98 b; 99 a).
[823] See, in Appendix IX. the extracts from Sanh.
[824] Sanh. 97 b.
[825] Pirqé de R. Ehes. 32.
[826] u. s. 30.
[827] Comp. Pirqé de R. El. 48.
[828] Pirqé de R. El. 28. The reasoning by which this duration of the monarchies is derived from Lament. i. 13 and Zech. xiv. 7, is a very curious specimen of Rabbinic argumentation.
[829] Comp. Zunz, Gottesd. Vortr. p. 277.
[830] Sanh. 98 b.
[831] See Appendix IX.
[832] Ab. Z. 5 a, Ber. R. 24.
[833] Targum Pseudo-Jon on Gen. xlix. 1.
[834] Midrash on Ps. xxxi. ed. Warsh. p. 41 a, lines 18 to 15 from bottom.
[835] Pesikta, ed. Buber, 47 b. 48 a, Sopher. xxi. Hal. 2. Shir. haShir. R. ii. 8. ed. Warsh. vol. iii. p. 15 a.
[836] Solitary opinions, however, place the future redemption in the month Tishri (Tanch. on Ex. xii. 37, ed. Warsh. p. 81 b, line 2 from bottom.)
[837] See the telling remarks of Oehler in Herzog's Real-Encykul., vol. ix. p. 417. We would add, that there is always a hereafter' of further development in the history of the individual believer, as in that of the Church - growing brighter and brighter, with increased spiritual communication and knowledge, till at last the perfect light is reached.
[838] 1 Cor. xiii. 9.
[839] No reasonable doubt can be left on the mind, that the LXX. translators have here the Messiah in view.
[840] Ps. lxxii.
[841] Ps. cx.
[842] Ps. lxxii.
[843] Is. ix. 6.
[844] The criticism of Mr. Drummond on these three passages (Jewish Messiah, pp. 290, 291) cannot be supported on critical grounds.
[845] Three, if not four, different renderings of the Targum on Is. ix. 6 are possible. But the minimum conveyed to my mind implies the premundane existence, the eternal continuance, and the superhuman dignity of the Messiah. (See also the Targum on Micah v. 2.)