214. System of Speculative Masonry, ch. vi. p. 63.
215. On the Speculative Temple—an essay read in 1861 before the Grand Lodge of Alabama.
216. A portion of this essay, but in a very abridged form, was used by the author in his work on "Cryptic Masonry."
217. Hist. Landmarks, i. 459, note 52.
218. אבך שתייה See the Gemara and Buxtorf Lex. Talm., p. 2541.
219. Job xxxviii. 4-7.
220. A New Translation of the Book of Job, notes, p. 196.
221. In voc. שתייה, where some other curious extracts from the Talmud and Talmudic writers on the subject of the Stone of Foundation are given.
222. Sepher Toldoth Jeshu, p. 6. The abominably scurrilous character of this work aroused the indignation of the Christians, who, in the fifteenth century, were not distinguished for a spirit of tolerance, and the Jews, becoming alarmed, made every effort to suppress it. But, in 1681, it was republished by Wagenselius in his "Tela Ignea Satanae," with a Latin translation.
223. Comment, on Gen. xxviii. 18.