...of the former. They pretended that Mofes repeated the oral law to Jofhua, that Jofhua delivered it to the elders, the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the wife men of the great fynagogue, from whom fucceflively it defcended to after ages. Judah Haccodhefh...

...that in the Firke Aboth, about 200 AD, where it is said that " Moses received the law from Mount Sinai and delivered it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, the elders to the prophets, and the prophets delivered it to the men of the Great Synagogue. These last spake three words : Be cautious in pronouncing...

...Torah she baccatubh,' and ' Torah she begnal peh,' ' the law in writing, and the law that comes by word of mouth;' 'Moses (say they) received the law from...synagogue.' And thus, like Fame in Virgil, ' crevit eundo,'—like a snow-ball, it grew bigger with going. Thus do they father their fooleries upon Moses,...

...of the former. They pretended that Moses repeated the oral law to Joshua, that Joshua delivered it to the elders, the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the wise men of the great synagogue, from whom successively it descended to after ages. Judah Haccodhesh...

...TM, it presages nothing but evil." Pirke Abot. c. 1. " Moses received the law from Sinai, and gave it to Joshua ; Joshua to the elders ; the elders to the prophets ; the prophets to the men of the great synagogue. They uttered these precepts : ' Be slow in judgment....

...'Torah she baccatubh,' and 'Torah she begnal peh,' 'the law in writing, and the law that comes by word of mouth :' ' Moses,' say they, ' received the law...synagogue.' And thus, like Fame in Virgil, 'crevit cundo,' — like a snow-ball it grew bigger with going. Thus do they father their fooleries upon Moses,...

...(Mishnah ed. Surenhus IV. 109). This book thus begins : " Moses received the Law at Sinai; he transmitted it to Joshua ; Joshua to the Elders ; the Elders to the Prophets ; the Prophets to the Men of the Great Synagogue." There was thus a college, an association formed,...

...CHAPITERI. Mosea received the law from Sinai, and delivered it to Joshua 5 and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets ; and the prophets to the men of the great Synagogue. They said three things : „be deliberate in judgmend ; train up many disciples ; and make a fence...

...their number. In like manner it is asserted in the traditions of the fathers, that Joshua taught them to the elders, the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the great Synod. SECTION LXXV. The Synod, or, in the Greek language, the Sanhedrin, consisted of seventy persons,...

...said w, it presages nothing but evil." Pirke Abot. c. 1. " Moses received the law from Sinai, and gave it to Joshua ; Joshua to the elders ; the elders to the prophets ; the prophets to the men of the great synagogue. They uttered these precepts : ' Be slow in judgment....