St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon / A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations

by J. B. Lightfoot

[368]. All these particulars and others may be gathered from Bekhoroth 30 b, Mishna Demai ii. 2, 3, Jerus. Demai ii. 3, v. 1, Tosifta Demai 2, Aboth R. Nathan c. 41.

[369]. See Herzfeld II. p. 386.

[370]. Monatschr. p. 35.

[371]. Zeitschr. pp. 458, 461, Monatschr. pp. 32, 36.

[372]. It is added however in Midrash Qoheleth ix. 9 ‘Some say that they (the holy congregation) devoted the whole of the winter to studying the Scriptures and the summer to work.’

[373]. Monatschr. p. 32.

[374]. Ib. p. 70.

[375]. See Derenbourg p. 175.

[376]. Monatschr. p. 32.

[377]. Monatschr. pp. 32, 68.