[245] C. 3.
[246] See Perowne, vol. i. in loco; Ps. lxxii. 6; and Delitzsch in Isa. lx. 17.
[247] Milman’s History of the Jews, vol. ii. book xix.
[248] Basnage’s Hist. des Juifs, vi. 41. Newman’s Arians, ch. i. sect. i.
[249] V. in fine; robbers may possibly be used in a figurative sense.
[250] I. c. 7. They seem early to have claimed medical skill. When Simon Ben Jochai went to Rome as ambassador, in the reign of Antoninus Pius, to obtain the abrogation of persecuting edicts, he won the favour of the Emperor by curing his sick daughter—Milman, ii. 443.
[251] II. 3; vii. in initio; i. c. 3, 4.
[252] I. c. 6.
[253] i. c. 7. So the idle youth of Rome turned for amusement into the Synagogue. Horace, Sat. ix. 69.
[254] ἐπιγινώσκετε ἀλλήλους. i. 4. This admonition “Discern one another” was uttered just at the close of the Missa Catechumenorum, when all but the baptized had to depart.