Father in the heavens hath given me, are from the Gospel according to the Hebrews, edit. Nicholson, Nos. 13, 14.
Page 96. Awake thou. Quoted by Paul, Eph. v. 14. See Resch, 37.
Page 102. This description of an ordinary Jewish meal of the time is taken from the Talmudic indications as given in S. Spitzer, Das Mahl bei den alten Hebräern. The blessing on the bread is that said up to the present day.
Page 103. Fowl to be boiled in milk. This was one of the points in dispute between the Galileans and the Jews of the time. See Talmud, Chullin, 116 a.
Page 105. Corban. This is the actual word used in the Greek original, but on the rather subtle point raised by Jesus there was a division of opinion among the Jewish doctors, as stated in the text. It is somewhat curious that only upon this and the question of washing hands before meals is there record of a specific difference between Jesus and the teaching of the Pharisees.
Page 109. Many a Pharisee. This is from the celebrated division of Pharisees into seven classes, made in the Talmud.
King Jannaus. From the Talmud. This shows that the dangers of hypocritical observances of the externalities of the Law were recognized a hundred years before Jesus.
Page 113. Hall of hewn stone. See Derenbourg, Histoire de la Palestine.
Page 114. I have selected these sayings from John as typifying the attitude of Jesus which would most grate against Jewish feeling. It is the seeming arrogance of these statements which forms the chief jarring note in the Gospels, judged from a Jewish point of view. How far they are authentic, however, is a very grave question. The whole tendency of modern criticism is to regard them as apocryphal.
