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Perhaps, in the retirement of his field of Hakeldama, Judas led a quiet and obscure life; while his former friends conquered the world, and spread his infamy abroad. Perhaps, also, the terrible hatred which was concentrated on his head, drove him to violent acts, in which were seen the finger of heaven. Jerome, De situ et nom. loc. hebr. at the word Acheldama.
Paul speaks of "The God of Peace" in many passages, e.g., Rom. xv, 33; 2 Cor. xiii, 11; 1 Thess. v, 23, and Hebr. xiii, 20; and Jesus, in his final discourse recorded in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of St. John's Gospel, lays peculiar stress on the gift of Peace. Now I hope the reader will take the trouble to look up the texts to which I have referred, and not be lazy.
Europeans, seeing the left breast conspicuously feminine, have indulged in silly surmises about the "Amazons." And as Easterns sit on carpets, their falling back is very different from the same movement off a chair. "Ismid," the eye-powder before noticed. "Shaib al-inghaz"=lit. a gray beard who shakes head in disapproval. "Ayat" = the Hebr. "Ototh," signs, wonders or Koranic verses.
The necessity for the substitution of her name in the later version is thus obvious, and we have already noted how simply this was effected. Cf. also Jastrow, Hebr. and Bab. Trad., p. 336. Gilg. Epic, XI, l. 123.
This description has been taken to imply a square box-like structure, which, in order to be seaworthy, must be placed on a conjectured hull. Cf., e.g., Jastrow, Hebr. and Bab. Trad., p. 329. Gilg. Epic, XI, ll. 28-30. L. 58 f. The gar contained twelve cubits, so that the vessel would have measured 120 cubits each way; taking the Babylonian cubit, on the basis of Gudea's scale, at 495 mm.
Jahn, Hebr. At last health and strength failed Tiberius, but not his habitual dissimulation. He retained the same unbending soul, and by his fixed countenance and measured language, sometimes by an artificial affability, he tried to conceal his approaching end. After many restless changes, he finally settled down in a villa at Misenum which had once belonged to the luxurious Lucullus.
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