Sephiroth. See Kabbalah.
Sepphoris, seized by Judas, the Nationalist, i. 241
Septuagint, i. 23;
legend of its origin and name, 24-26;
its age, 26;
its characteristics, 27, 28;
how regarded and used by Hellenists and Rabbis, 29, 30
Sermon on the Mount, the, contrasted and compared with Rabbinic writings, i. 524-526, 531-541;
its arrangement and divisions, 527, 528;
the Beatitudes, 529, 530;
alms, prayer and fasting in it 530, 531;
analysis of the third part, 531;
its effect on the hearers, 541
Seventy, mission of the, ii. 135;
differences between it and the sending of the Twelve, 135, 136;
their commission and return, 137-142
Shammai, his life and teaching, i. 95, 128, 129;
character of his school, 239, 240;
the eighteen decrees, how passed, 239, ii. 13, 14;
views of the school on hand-washing, ii. 13;
on divorce, 333;
the burdens bound by them, 407
Shaul, Abba, curse pronounced by, i. 372
Shechem, real capital of Samaria, i. 397, 398;
the city of fools,' 400;
the valley of Shechem, 404, 405
Shekkinah, the, removed from earth at the Fall of man, i. 166;
lingers over the wall of the Temple, 168
Sheliach Tsibbur, Christ acts as, in the Nazareth Synagogue, i. 439
Shema, the, reason of its order, i. 268
Shemayah, or Sameas, saying of, i. 128
Sibylline Oracles, lament of i. 6;
Jewish personation in, 36;
date and country of, 38;
passed for Erythræan and Cumæan, 38;
the restoration of Israel referred to in them; their presentation of Messiah, 172, 173
Sickness, Jewish views concerning, i. 554
Siloam, Pool of, i. 111;
the procession thither on the Feast of Tabernacles, ii. 157, 158;
the man born blind sent to wash there, 180;
lessons of the fall of the tower there, 222, 223
Simeon, meets the Holy Family in the Temple, i. 198;
his song and prophecy, 199, 200
Simeon, grandson of Hillel, interferes concerning Temple traffic, i. 370, 371
Simon I. (Jus), described in Ecclus., i. 26, 121
saying of, 95;
sees a vision of an angel every year, 138
Simon, the Cyrenian, ii. 582, 587
Simon, son of Gamaliel, views on Samaritans of, i. 400
Simon, ben Jochai, saying of, i. 540, ii. 291
Simon, the Pharisee, the meal given to Christ in his house, and the woman which was a sinner there, i. 563-569
Simon, ben Shetach, i. 96
Simon Zelotes, a cousin of Christ, i. 251, 522, ii. 603
Sirach, Son of, translates his grandfather's work, i. 26;
Grecian thought in it, 32
Sod, i. 21
Soemus, murdered, i. 126
Sowing, modes of, i. 586
Star of the Magi, i. 204, 205;
probable explanation of it, 211-213;
Jewish expectation of a star, 211, 212
Stoning, Place of, ii. 585
Sagoth, or couples, the, i. 95-97
Susanna, ministers to Christ, i. 573
Swine, keeping them prohibited to Jews, ii. 260
Sychar, i. 405;
roads to the place, 405;
its well, 409;
Christ at Jacob's Well there, 405-420
Synagogue, the Great, duration of, i. 94, 95
Synagogues, Hellenist, i. 19, 29, 30, 77;
the batlanim of, 76, 433, 434;
their tendency in the Dispersion and in Palestine, 77, 433, 434;
the Jerusalem Synagogues, 119, 432;
origin of Synagogues, 431, 432;
plan and structure of Synagogues, according to that at Capernaum, 434-436;
regulations as to conduct in, going to, and returning from, a Synagogue, 437;
the officials, 438, 439;
the service, 439-445;
Jewish preachers and sermons in, 445-450;
Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth, 452-456
Syracuse, Jewish colony at, i. 69
Syria, reckoned part of the land' i. 7
Syrophoenician Woman, healing of her daughter by Christ, ii. 38-43
Tabernacles, Feast of, how kept, i. 229;
pilgrims at it, and how treated, ii. 129, 148, 149;
Christ goes up to it privately, 131;
the booths, 145, 146;
Chol ha Moed of, 148;
symbolism of the Feast, 149, 150;
the illuminations, 150-165;
the services of the great day of the Feast, 156-160;