Verse 5 is, of course, applied to the forerunner of the Messiah. So in many places, as in
the Pirqé de R. Eliez. c. 40; Debarm R. 3; in the Midrash on Cant. i. 1; in the Talmud, and
in Yalkut repeatedly.8
8. From the above review of Old Testament passages, all reference to sacrifices has been
omitted, because, although the Synagogue held the doctrine of the vicariousness and
atoning character of these sacrifices, no mention occurs of the Messiah in connection
with them.
To the above passages we add some from the Apocryphal Books, partly as indicating the
views concerning the Messiah which the Jews had derived from the Old Testament, and
partly because of their agreement with Jewish traditionalism as already expounded by us.
These passages must therefore be judged in connection with the Rabbinical ideas of the
Messiah and of Messianic days. It is in this sense that we read, for example, the address
to Jerusalem, Tobit xiii. 9 to the end. Comp. here, for example, our quotations on Amos
ix. 11.
Similarly Tobit xiv . 5-7 may be compared with our quotations on Ps. xc, Is. lx. 3, and
especially on Zech. viii. 23, also on Gen. xlix. 11.
Wisdom of Solomon iii. 7, 8 may be compared with our remarks on Is. lxi. 1.
Ecclus. xliv . 21 &c. and xlvii. 11 may be compared with our quotations on Ps. lxxxix. 22-
25; Ps. cxxxii. 18; Ezek. xxix. 21.
Ecclus. xlviii. 10, 11. See the comments on Is. lii. 7, also our references on Mal. iii. 1;
Mal. iv. 5; Deut. xxv. 19 and xxx. 4; Lam. ii. 22. In Sotah ix. 15 Elijah is represented as
raising the dead.
Baruch ii. 34, 35; iv. 29 &c.; and ch. v . are so thoroughly in accordance with Rabbinic,
and, indeed, with Scriptural views, that it is almost impossible to enumerate special
references.
The same may be said of 1 Macc. ii. 57; while such passages as iv. 46 and xiv . 41 point
forward to the ministry of Elijah as resolving doubts, as this is frequently described in the
Talmud (Shekalim ii. 5; Men. 45 a, Pes. 13 a; and in other places).
Lastly, 2 Macc. ii. 18 is fully enlarged on in the Rabbinic descriptions of the gathering of
Israel.
Perhaps it may be as well here to add the Messianic discussion in the Talmud, to which
such frequent reference has been made (Sanhedrin, beginning at the two last lines of p. 96
b, and ending at p. 99 a ). The first question is that asked by one Rabbi of the other,
whether he knew when the Son of the Fallen would come? Upon which follows an
explanation of that designation, based on Amos ix. 11, after which it is added that it
would be a generation in which the disciples of the sages would be diminished, and the
rest of men consume their eyes for sorrow, and terrible sorrows so follow each other, that