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ah was not that of ' a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of His people Israel '-the satisfaction of the
wants of humanity, and the completion of Israel's mission-but quite different even to contrariety."- Edersheim,
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, 164 (1883).
58. Zohar, section Schemoth, folio 8; cf. ibid., folio 9b: " The period when the King Messiah will declare
war on the whole world " (De Pauly, III. 32, 36)
59. A blasphemous address entitled The God Man, given by Tom Anderson, the founder of the Socialist
Sunday Schools, on Glasgow Green to an audience of over 1,000 workers in 1922 and printed in pamphlet
form, was founded entirely on this theory.
60. J.G. Frazer, The Golden Bough, Part VI. " Scapegoat," p. 412 (1914 edition); E.R. Bevan endorses this
view.
61. Histoire de la Magie, p. 69.
62. The Magi or Wise Men are generally believed to have come from Persia this would accord with the
Zoroastrian prophecy quoted above.
63. Drach, op. cit., II. p. 32.
64. Ibid., II. p xxiii.
65. Joseph Barclay, The Talmud, pp. 38, 39; cf. Drach, op. cit., I. 167.
66. The Talmud, by Michael Rodkinson (alias Michael Levy Rodkinssohn).
67. Le Talmud de Babylone, (1900).
68. Le Zohar, translation in 8 vols. by Jean de Pauly, published in 1909 by Emile Lafuma-Giraud. Wherever
possible in quoting the Talmud or the Cabala I shall give a reference to one of the translations here mentioned.
69. Jewish Encyclopædia, article Talmud.
70. Drach, op. cit., I. 168, 169. The text of this encyclical is given by Drach in Hebrew and also in translation,
thus: " This is why we enjoin you, under pain of excommunication major, to print nothing in future editions,
whether of the Mischna or of the Gemara, which relates whether for good or evil to the acts of Jesus
the Nazarene, and to substitute instead a circle like this O, which will warn the Rabbis and schoolmasters to
teach the young these passages only viva voce. By means of this precaution the savants amongst the Nazarenes
will have no further pretext to attack us on this subject." Cf. Abbé Chiarini, Le Talmud de Babylone,
p. 45 (1831).
71. On this point see Appendix I.
72. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on " Jesus."
73. Eliphas Lévi, La Science des Esprits, p. 40.
74. Origen, Contra Celsum.
75. S. Baring-Gould, The Counter-Gospels, p. 69 (1874).
76. Cf. Baring-Gould, op. cit., quoting Talmud, treatise Sabbath, folio 104.
77. Ibid., p. 55, quoting Talmud, treatise Sanhedrim, folio 107, and Sota, folio 47; Eliphas Lévi, La Science
des Esprits, pp. 32, 33.
78. According to the Koran, it was the Jews who said, " ' Verily we have slain the Messiah, Jesus the son of
Mary, an apostle of God.' Yet they slew him not, and they crucified him not, but they had only his likeness....
No sure knowledge had they about him, but followed an opinion, and they did not really slay him,
but God took him up to Himself."-Sura iv. 150. See also Sura iii. 40. The Rev. J. M. Rodwell, in his translation
of the Koran observes in a footnote to the latter passage: " Muhammad probably believed that God took
the dead body of Jesus to Heaven-for three hours, according to some,-while the Jews crucified a man who
resembled him."
79. Sura iii. 30, 40.
80. Sura xxi. 90.
81. Sura iv. 150.
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