The Inquisition and Judaism

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 64 huma asks the reason why the Hebrew word Lemarbe is used by the prophet Isaiah, chapter ix., to express multiplicandum ejus imperium, and why the final D (Mem) is placed in the middle of the Lemarbe, when it is contrary to usage to put such letter in the middle of any other Hebrew word. No one has yet...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 64 huma asks the reason why the Hebrew word Lemarbe is used by the prophet Isaiah, chapter ix., to express multiplicandum ejus imperium, and why the final D (Mem) is placed in the middle of the Lemarbe, when it is contrary to usage to put such letter in the middle of any other Hebrew word. No one has yet been found who could solve this question; and accordingly it is said in your Talmud, that he heard a voice from heaven answeringhimthus, Eazi-li, Eazi-li, which Hebrew words translated into Latin mean Secretum meum tnihi; Secretum meum mihi; or, My secret is my own; My secret is my own. It is assented to by many of your teachers that from the time of Isaiah's prophecy in chapter ix., until the advent of the Messiah, a period of six hundred years was to elapse. Now let us see how many years have really elapsed since that prophecy down to the present time, and when these six hundred years were, or will be, fully completed, in order that we may discover whether your Messiah has already come, or is still to come, as calculated by your rabbins. The better to convince you, I will follow no other chronology than that adopted by them. The date of this prophecy was in the fourth year of King Ahaz, reckoning from which time down to the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, according to the computation of your Eabbi Salo- mon, one hundred and fifty years had elapsed. In that year, the first temple was burnt, and you were carried captive into Babylon. From the destruction of the first temple to the destruction of the second, by the account of that same rabbi, four hundred and ninety years had passed, which number added to one hundred and fifty, makes six hundred and forty one years. From this we must deduct the forty-one years since the death of Christ. Consequently, agreeably to the c.