abarbenel

Updated: June 29, 2025

Yet they were right in carving him with two faces looking from each other—they were right, though they knew not why; there was a tradition among them that the Janinoso had two faces, but they knew not that one was for the world which was gone and the other for the world before him—for the drowned world and for the present, as Master Leo Abarbenel says in his Dialogues of Divine Love.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

'I am fond of these studies, said he, 'which, perhaps, is not to be wondered at, seeing that our people have been compared to the Jews. In one respect I confess we are similar to them; we are fond of getting money. I do not like this last author, this Abarbenel, the worse for having been a money- changer. I am a banker myself, as thou knowest.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

How can that be; what reverence could an archbishop entertain for one like yourself or your grandsire? Abarbenel. More than you imagine. He was one of us, at least his father was, and he could never forget what he had learned with reverence in his infancy.

George Henry Borrow - The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

And there I saw his gentle partner and his fair children, and on the morrow he showed me the books of which he had spoken years before, by the side of the stream. In the low quiet chamber, whose one window, shaded by a gigantic elm, looks down the slope towards the pleasant stream, he took from the shelf his learned books, Zohar and Mishna, Toldoth Jesu and Abarbenel.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest