[6]. Maimonides, Issure Biah, Perek 13, in Lightfoot, Harmonia Evang. in Joan i, 25.
[7]. Maimonides, as above, in Lightfoot, on John iii, 23.
[8]. According to Etheridge, the final revision of the Babylonian Gemara was completed by Rabbi Jose, president of the rabbinic seminary at Pumbaditha, on the Euphrates, in the year 499 or 500.—Jerusalem and Tiberias, pp. 174-176.
[9]. Tract Pesachim, cap. viii, § 8.
[10]. This is clearly shown by Etheridge, in “Jerusalem and Tiberias.” Pp. 339 et seq. The same thing is largely illustrated in Blavatsky’s “Isis Revealed.”
[11]. Compare Ezek. xlvii, 2; John ix, 7. “Go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation, Sent.”
[12]. Carson on Baptism, p. 167.
[13]. This reading is attested by codices Bezæ, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and is fully sustained by the internal evidence.
[14]. Wilkinson, vol. iii, p. 388; Abridged edition, ii, 349.
[15]. Lynch’s Dead Sea Expedition, p. 206.