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CHRISTIANITY IN TALMUD
If, as is possible, it may have been suggested by the
story in Luke ii. 41 fol., it can in no case be evidence
for opinion concerning Jesus in those centuries with
which we are concerned. And my chief reason for
inserting it is that I do not wish to leave out any
passage to which reference has been made as having
a supposed bearing on the subject. At the same
time, the fact that use has been made of the story in
the book called the Totd, Jth JJsha (ed. Huldreich,
p.
22, ed. Wagenseil, p.
12), shows that it was
regarded as having reference to Jesus. In the work
11J. C. ini Talmud," p. 84 fol., Laible argues that
the original author of the passage had no thought
of Jesus in his mind. It is possible that the story is
a free invention to explain the words of Shim'on
b. 'Azai
(quoted above, p.
48), which refer to a
certain person ' as having been ' spurius et
menstrute filius.' If so, Laible would be justified
in saying that while the original author of the story
had no thought of Jesus in his mind, nevertheless the
real reference was to Jesus.
JESUS AND HIS TEACHER
(7) b. Sanh.
107b.-Our Rabbis teach, Ever let
the left hand repel and the right hand invite,
not like Elisha who repulsed Gehazi with both
hands, and not like R. Jehoshua ben Perahjah,
who repulsed Jeshu (the Nazarene) with both
hands. Gehazi, as it is written .
.1
i The pauage referring to Gehazi will be dealt with under another head. see
below, No. 27, p. 97 fol.
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