nine fathers of
uncleanness, of which eleven arise from contact with a dead body.

364 A city about fifteen miles from Jerusalem.

365 Toward Jerusalem.

366 This decision refers to the case of a dealer whose wine or flour
might become legally defiled by contact with the common people.

367 The Tosephta relates, that when the Pharisees were baptizing the
candlestick, the Sadducees used to mock them by saying, they were
baptizing the sun.

368 The Jewish year is composed of twelve lunar months. It is adapted to
the solar year by the use of an intercalary month called Veaddar--the
additional Addar. Every nineteen years there are seven occasions on
which this embolismic month must be introduced to prevent the
various feasts revolving over the four seasons of the year, like the
Moslem fast of Ramadhan. Formerly the Sanhedrin arranged this
intercalary month to suit the harvest, so that if it were late, the
wave sheaf and other observances should still be kept according to
their proper dates. When, however, the Sanhedrin was suppressed by
the Emperor Constantine, Hillel II of Tiberias ruled that an
intercalary month of twenty-nine days should be added in the 3d,
6th, 8th, 11th, 13th, 17th, and 19th years of the Metonic Cycle.
This decision has since remained the Jewish standard for reckoning
time.

369 Deut. xxi. 4.

370 Deut. xx. 5, 9.

371 Lev. xix. 24.

372 Deut. xiv. 22-25.

373 Exod. xxi. 29.

374 Num. xi. 17.

375 Num. xxxv. 24, 25. A congregation, or "minyan," must not be less
than ten men. If there be 10,000 women they cannot form a minyan.
The Lord Jesus more mercifully promises His presence to "two or
three gathered together." Matt. xviii. 20.

376 Num. xiv. 27.

377 Exod. xxiii. 2.

378 Exod. xxiii. 2.

379 The Great Sanhedrin could whip a high-priest for certain offences,
and afterward restore him to his office.

380 Deut. xxv. 9.

381 Lev. xxi. 12.

382 2 Sam. iii. 35.

383 2 Sam. xii. 8.

384 2 Sam. iii. 31.

385 Deut. xvii. 19.

386 Deut. xvii. 15.

387 Lev. xix. 16.

388 Prov. xi. 13.

389 Lev. xxiv. 22.

390 This rule was violated in the case of our Lord Jesus Christ. Matt.
xxvi. xxvii.; Mark xiv.; Luke xxii. xxiii.; John xix.

391 Gen. iv. 10.

392 Lev. v. 1.

393 Prov. xi. 1