Sect. 10. Here they sate down amazed for a season; being at their wits end, as was threatened to them in the Curse. But they will not rest so. Considering therefore that their old Religion could not be continued without a Jerusalem and a Temple, they began a nefarious attempt against God, equal to that of the old world in building Babel, even to set up a new Religion, that might abide with them wherever they were, and give them countenance in their Infidelity, and opposition to the Gospel unto the utmost. The head of this new Apostasy was one Rabbi Jehuda, whom we may not unfitly call the Mahomet of the Jews. They term him Hannasi, the Prince, and Hakkadosh, the holy. The whole story of him and his companions, as reported by the Jews, is well collected by Joseph de Voisin, observat. in proaem: ad pugi: fidei: p. 26, 27. ⟨p. 232⟩The sum of the whole concerning this work is laid down by Maimonides, in his praefatio in Seder Zeraiim, pag: 36, 37. of the edition of Mr Pococke, wherein also a sufficient account is given of the whole Mishna, with the name of the Rabbins, either employed in it, or occasionally mentioned. This man about the year of Christ 190, or 200, when the Temple had now lain wast almost three times as long as it did in the Babylonish Captivity, being countenanced as some of themselves report,1 by Antoninus Pius, compiled the Jewish Alcoran, or the Mishna, as a Rule of their worship and ways for the future. Only whereas Mahomet afterwards pretended to have received his figments by Revelation, (though indeed he had much of his Abominations from the Talmud) this man pleaded the receiving ⟨p. 233⟩of his by Tradition; the two main Engines that have been set up against the Word of God. Out of such Pharisaical Traditions as were indeed preserved amongst them, and such Observances as they had learned and taken up from Apostate Christians, as Aquila and others, with such figments as were invented by himself▪ and his predecessors, since the time of their being publicly rejected and cursed by God, This man compiled the [Greek or Hebrew] Mishnaioth, which is the Text of their Talmud, and the foundation of their present Religion, under the name of the old oral Law.
Sect. 10. Here they sate down amazed for a season; being at their wits end, as was threatned to them in the Curse. But they will not rest so. Considering therefore that their old Religion could not be continued without a Jerusalem and a Temple, they began a nefarious attempt against God, equall to that of the old world in building Babel, even to set up a new Religion, that might abide with them whereever they were, and give them countenance in their Infidelity, and opposition to the Gospell unto the utmost. The head of this new Apostasy was one Rabbi Jehuda, whom we may not unfitly call the Mahomet of the Jews. They terme him Hannasi, the Prince, and Hakkadosh, the holy. The whole story of him and his companions, as reported by the Jews, is well collected by Joseph de Voisin, observat. in proaem: ad pugi: fidei: p. 26, 27. ⟨p. 232⟩The summe of the whole concerning this work is laid down by Maimonides, in his praefatio in Seder Zeraiim, pag: 36, 37. of the edition of Mr Pococke, wherein also a sufficient account is given of the whole Mishna, with the name of the Rabbins, either imploied in it, or occasionally mentioned. This man about the year of Christ 190, or 200, when the Temple had now laine wast almost three times as long as it did in the Babylonish Captivity, being countenanced as some of themselves report,1 by Antoninus Pius, compiled the Jewish Alcoran, or the Mishna, as a Rule of their worship and waies for the future. Only whereas Mahomet afterwards pretended to have received his sigments by Revelation, (though indeed he had much of his Abominations from the Talmud) this man pleaded the receiving ⟨p. 233⟩of his by Tradition; the two maine Engines that have been set up against the Word of God. Out of such Pharisaicall Traditions as were indeed preserved amongst them, and such Observances as they had learned and taken up from Apostate Christians, as Aquila and others, with such figments as were invented by himselfe▪ and his predecessors, since the time of their being publickly rejected and cursed by God, This man compiled the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Mishnaioth, which is the Text of their Talmud, and the foundation of their present Religion, under the name of the old orall Law.
- 1Post haec procesi• temporis ventum est ad Rabbinu Hakkidosh, cui pax, qui fuit se culi sui phoenix, &c: Ille legem in Israel co•fi•mavit Lenten •is, dicti• & differentiis ore traditis à Mose, usque ad tempora sua colle•is, cum & ipse esset ex iis qui ore ••adita referebant. Collectis igitur sententiis & dictis istis, manum admovit componendae Mish••ae, quae omnium quae in lege scripta sunt praeceptorum explicationem contineret, par•im traditionibus à Mose (cui pa•) ore acceptis, pa••im consequenti•s argumentation elicitis &c. vid. R. Maimon. praefat. i• Zeder. Zerailm. edit. Pocock. p. 36, 37, 38.Post haec procesi• temporis ventum est ad Rabbinu Hakkidosh, cui pax, qui fuit se culi sui phoenix, &c: Ille legem in Israele co•fi•mavit •enten •is, dicti• & differentiis ore traditis à Mose, usque ad tempora sua colle•is, cum & ipse esset ex iis qui ore ••adita referebant. Collectis igitur sententiis & dictis istis, manum admovit componendae Mish••ae, quae omnium quae in lege scripta sunt praeceptorum explicationem contineret, par•im traditionibus à Mose (cui pa•) ore acceptis, pa••im consequenti•s argumentatione elicitis &c. vid. R. Maimon. praefat. i• Zeder. Zerailm. edit. Pocock. p. 36, 37, 38.
