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NOTES.

Page 34. Why marvel ye? Resch, 29.

Page 36. Man, if thou knowest. Resch, 27.
The Sabbath was made. This was a characteristic Jewish principle. See Derenbourg, Histoire de la Palestine, p. 144.

Page 41. Let Rabbi Joshua. This would have been Jesus' Jewish name: Rabbi was applied to all respectable persons, somewhat like our "Mr." The method of "calling up to the law" described here has lasted on to the present day.
Haphtara. The first and second lessons of the church are derived from the practice of the synagogue, where a portion of the Law is first read, and then the Haphtara or lesson from the prophets.
Cantillation. This has still been preserved by the synagogue; it is probably the source of the Gregorian Chant.

Page 42. It hath been written. This sermon has been composed out of the following sections of the Resch Agrapha: 61, 45, 20; A. 60; 12, 35; A. 76; 15, 47, 62, 9, 1, 13, 49, 48, 33, 47; A. 22; 34, 42, 26, 51, 63, 73, 65, 32, 31; A. 36; 46; A. 6; A. 29. The sentence Howbeit, he who longs … till he perish is derived from a Mohammedan tradition about Jesus. Two or three of these sayings, as, for instance, Love covereth a multitude of sins, occur in the Epistles, but are quoted in the Church Fathers as actual words of Jesus. Resch regards them as forming part of a Gospel now lost.

Page 48. Let son and daughter inherit alike. From the Gospel according to the Hebrews, edit. Nicholson, No. 34.

Page 49. Let the wife. Resch, 24. Quotation as a "Command of the Lord" by Paul, 1 Cor. xiv. 37.

Page 51. Because they are poor. It is a mistake to think that Jesus was the first among the Jews to insist upon the blessedness of the poor. The whole of the later literature of the Bible and the earlier literature of