other manifestations of Christ, 651;
our Resurrection?body, what will it be? 635, 636
Revelation, Christ's teaching as to its unity, ii. 404, 406
Roads in Palestine, the three great caravan ones, i. 147
Rome, views there entertained about the Jews, i. 65-67;
political history and standing of the Jews there, 67, 68, 70-72;
Jewish slaves and freedmen in Rome, 67, 68;
their quarters, Synagogues, and inscriptions, 68-70;
Romans proselytes, 71;
Jewish legend of Messiah at the gate of Rome, 175;
political, social, and religious history of the Roman Empire under Augustus, 256-260;
Jewish legend of the origin of Rome, ii. 439
Sabbath, the, Jewish modes of making it a delight, i. 437, ii. 52, 114, 115;
Christ's controversy on the second first' Sabbath, ii. 53-56;
Rabbinic views of labour on the Sabbath, 56-58;
as to danger to life on it, 59-61;
the O. and N.T. teaching concerning the Sabbath, 56?59;
Christ heals the man with the withered hand on it, 61, 62;
is accused of breaking the Sabbath again, 181, 182;
His Peræan teaching concerning healing on it, 224, 225, 303
Sabbatyon, river, i. 15
Sadducees, origin of, i. 96, 238, 310;
characteristics of their system, 313;
dogmatic, ritual, and juridical views differing from the Pharisees of, 314-321;
they were a minority, 322;
origin of the name, 322-324;
had no sympathy with the Baptist, 334, 335;
identified with the Herodians by St. Matthew, ii. 67;
they seek a sign from heaven, 68-70;
their leaven, 70, 71;
their attitude towards Christ, 396, 397;
their arguments with the Pharisees and with Christ as to the Resurrection, 397-399, 401, 402;
their views on the Levirate marriage, 400
Sadduk, a Shammaite, joins Judas the Nationalist, i. 241
Safed, i. 146
Saliva, mode of healing by, ii. 45, 48, 180, 182
Salorne, wife of Zebedee. See Zebedee
Salome, daughter of Herodias, dances before Herod, i. 672;
her end, 673
Salome, sister of Herod I., compasses murder of her husband, of Mariamme, Soemus, and Costobarus, i. 125, 126;
releases the Jews shut up at Jericho, 219
Salt, Christ's teaching about its meaning, ii. 121
Samaria, province of, Biblical history of, i. 394-396;
its temple, 396;
later political history of, 397, 398;
how viewed by Jews, and attitude of Samaria towards Judæa, 398-402;
beauty of the Plain of Samaria, 404, 405
Samaria, or Sebaste, built, i. 88, 119;
heathen temple at, 88;
fate of, 397, 398
Samaritans, meaning of the designation in Jewish writings, i. 399, 400;
doctrines held by the Samaritans, 402, 403;
they refuse to receive Christ, ii. 131;
the healed Samaritan leper, 329-331
Sanhedrin, the, of Jerusalem, signals of the new month by, i. 9;
of supreme authority, 12;
actual power of, at the time of Christ, 120, 128, 238, ii. 556;
origin of, i. 97;
places of, meeting, 114, 371;
rank in it, and privileges thereby conferred, 96, 131, ii. 555;
character of decisions made by Sanhedrin, i. 129, ii. 557, 584,
teaching by members of it on the Temple?terrace, i. 247;
sent no official deputation to the Baptist, 309, 310;
did not sit on Sabbaths, ii. 182;
the Sanhedrist council against Christ, 326;
mode of ordination, 381, 382, 553-555;
Christ's trial illegal according to their laws, 553;
the three tribunals, 554;
regular mode of procedure in trial by the Sanhedrin, 555, 556.
See Trial of Christ
Satan or Sammael, compasses the Fall of Man, i. 165;
his assaults upon Abraham, 292;
his conquest by Messiah, 292, 293;
Christ sees his fa!l, ii. 140;
also named Shomron, 174
Schools in Palestine, i. 230, 231;
teachers in, 231;
subjects of study in, 232
Scribes or Sopherim, studies of, i. 11;
their position and dignity, 93,
origin, growth, and decay in power of, the institution, 94-96
Seleucidæ, troubles of Palestine under, i. 96, 121
Seleucus I. (Nicator) grants the Jews of Asia Minor citizenship, i. 71
Seleucus IV. (Philopator) conquers Samaria, i. 397