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Footnotes
- 1.
- This, like most other utterances of Jesus, found in this book but not in the Gospels, is also found in the early patristic literature.—Ed.
- 2.
- Ὄχλος τοῦ ἀγροῦ, seemingly the translation of the Hebrew עם הארץ used for those unlearned in the Law; this term seems to have passed through much the same history as “pagan.”—Ed.
- 3.
- Each of the Jewish rabbis used to sum up his teaching in some pregnant sentence. These are given in the Talmudic treatise, The Ethics of the Fathers.—Ed.
- 4.
- José ben Joeser said, “Let thy place be a place of meeting for the wise; dust thyself with the dust of their feet, and drink greedily of their teaching” (Pirke Aboth, i. 4).—Ed.
- 5.
- The rabbis use this expression, Bath Kol, for any supernatural revelation.—Ed.
- 6.
- This Logion is only found elsewhere in one MS. of the Gospels, viz., in the Codex Bezæ at Cambridge.—Ed.
- 7.
- It must have been from a report of this discourse, and that given on p. 92, that the majority of those utterances of Jesus have been derived which are known in modern theology as “Agrapha.”—Ed.
- 8.
- The gospel version reads “Samaritan.”—Ed.
- 9.
- See note on p. 42.—Ed.
- 10.
- Bar Abba means “son of his father.”
- 11.
- Bar Amma means “son of his mother.”—Ed.
- 12.
- Probably the so-called Primitive Gospel, the common foundation of our Synoptics. But the date is somewhat early.—Ed.