[306] De Plant. 30.

[307] It is impossible for me to make an adequate acknowledgment of my debt to Dr. Schechter, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. But I should say that I have borrowed freely from his articles on rabbinic theology in the Jewish Quarterly Review, vols. VI and VII, now included in his "Aspects of Rabbinic Theology."

[308] Mishnah Yodayim III. 5.

[309] Bereshit Rabba 26. 7.

[310] Comp. Schechter, op. cit., Introduction.

[311] Berakot 24b.

[312] Mekilta

I. 1.

[313] Bereshit Rabba I. 2.