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With his wife behind him on his bay, with pistols at his saddle-bow, and "Jock" on "the long-tailed yad" at his back, with tenant retainers and veteran domestics pressing round and ringing shouts and homely huzzas and good wishes filling the air, already heavy with the smoke of good cheer Staneholme rode in.

In these two Rabbinical treatises, and particularly in the "Yad ha-Hazaka," the Rabbinic Code, Maimonides showed himself the master of Rabbinic literature. And all recognized in him the master mind. Having been written in Hebrew the Code soon penetrated all Jewish communities everywhere, and Maimonides's fame spread wherever there were Jews engaged in the study of the Talmud.

The man performing the Chang'-tu says: "Sik'-a tan-ang'-a sik'-a lu'-fub ad Sa-dang'-a nan ay-yam' Sik'-a ta-lo'-lo ad La'-god nan ay-yam' Sik'-a ta-lo'-lo ye'-mod La'-god nan fa-no wat'-mo yad Ap'-lay." In this petition the purpose of the Chang'-tu is clearly defined.

Of Sapor III., his brother and successor, two facts only are recorded his conclusion of the treaty with the Romans in A.D. 384, and his war with the Arabs of the tribe of Yad, which must have followed shortly afterwards.

In a similar manner Exodus provides a revelation which Moses received. In the Avesta Ormuzd said: ahmi yad ahmi. Word for word the declarations are identical. Each means I am that I am. The conformity of the pronouncements may be fortuitous. Their relative priority uncertain chronology obscures.