[4781] I do not quite understand, whether or not Dr. Abbott (Encycl. Brit., Art. Gospels,' pp. 837, 838) holds the historical accuracy' of this narrative. In a foot-note he disclaims its complete discussion' as foreign to the purpose of his essay. He refers us, however, to the Parable of Dives and Lazarus, together with the comments on it of Lightfoot in his Horæ Hebr., and of Wünsche in his Beitr. z. Erl. d. Evangelien. I have carefully examined both, but cannot see that either or both contribute anything to help our understanding of the raising of Lazarus.
[4782] St. Luke x. 38 &c.
[4783] From the non-mention of Peter and the prominence of Thomas it seems at least doubtful, whether all the Apostles were there.
[4784] According to the best reading, the words are the same, but the position of the personal pronoun mou my' brother is significantly different (see Westcott ad loc.).
[4785] As to the Jewish usus of the expression sleep' for death, see Book III. chap. xxvi.
[4786] Ber. 57 b.
[4787] Ber. R 20.
[4788] See chap. v. of this Book.
[4789] Comp. St. John xi. 20.
[4790] In that case Christ's inquiry would afford another instance of His self-exinanition in His great Humiliation of becoming obedient.'
[4791] Moed K. 28 a; comp Sanh. 46 b.
[4792] When relating the history of the raising of the widow's son at Nain, Book III. chap. xx.
[4793] An interesting account (to which I would acknowledge obligations) is given in a brochure by Dr. Perles, reprinted from Frankel's Monatsschrift.
[4794] Shabb. 153 a; comp. also as regards Jerusalem (where the Galilean custom prevailed), Semach. iii. 6.
[4795] Baba B. 25 a.
[4796] Comp. Perles, u. s. p. 25.
[4797] 2 Kings xxiii. 6; Jer. Xxvi. 23.
[4798] St. Matt. xxvii. 7; Acts i. 19.
[4799] Sanh. vi. 5.
[4800] These were: a law court, provision for the poor, a synagogue, a public bath, a secessus, a doctor, a surgeon, a scribe, a butcher, and a schoolmaster.
[4801] Targ. on Ps. cxv. 17.
[4802] Moed K. 9 b.
[4803] Erub. iii.1; Tohar. iii. 7.
[4804] Sanh. 46.
[4805] Keth. 20 b.
[4806] Gitt. 61 a.
[4807] Sanh. 47 a.
[4808] u. s. 46 a.
[4809] Ber. 8 a.
[4810] Semach. 2.
[4811] Semach. i. 6.
[4812] Moed K. 27 b.
[4813] u.s. 28 b, where also the text their laments.
[4814] Jer. Moed K. i. 5.
[4815] Baba B. 100 b.
[4816] Meg. 28 a, b.
[4817] Shabb. 153 a.
[4818] Many of them in Moed K. 25.
[4819] See Zunz, Zur Gesch. u. Liter. pp. 304 to 458. In Moed K. 25 b we have the miraculous portents at the death of great Rabbis: columns weeping or statues flattening or bursting, blood flowing, stars appearing, trees uprooted, arches bending, &c.
[4820] Nicolai (De Sepulchr. Hebr., a book of no great value) gives a pictorial illustration at p. 170.
[4821] Baba B. 100 b.
[4822] Ber. 53 a.
[4823] Bets. 6 a.
[4824] Meg. 26 b.
[4825] Mearta. Babha Mets. 85 b; Baba B. 58 a.
[4826] Not Kokim. On the difference, as regards the entrance into these caves, between Jewish and Phoenician tombs, see Conder, Heth and Moab,' p. 93.
[4827] Baba B. vi. 8.
[4828] This partly depends whether, with Rashi and Perles (p. 29), we regard {hebrew} as an ossarium, or, with Levy, regard it as = {hebrew}, house of mourning,' Ber. 6 b (comp. Schwab ad loc.).
[4829] Jer. Moed K. i. 5; Semach. 12 and 13.
[4830] Comp. letters, (a) by Dr. Chaplin, Quart. Stat. Oct. 1873, p. 155; (b) by M. Clermont-Ganneau, Ap. 1874, pp. 95, &c.; (c) Dr. Chaplin, Quart. Stat. Jan. 1876, p. 9; (d) Art. by Capt. Conder ib. pp. 18, &c.
[4831] See, especially, Capt. Wilson's Report in the third Quart. Stat. (1869), pp. 66, &c.
[4832] Recovery of Jerusalem, p. 494.