Messiah for Israel, seeing they have had Him in the time of Hezekiah. Rabh said: The

world was only created for David; Samuel, for Moses; and Rabbi Jochanan, for the

Messiah. What is His Name? The school of Rabbi Shila said: Shiloh is His Name,

according to Gen. xlix. 10. The school of Rabbi Jannai said: Jinnon, according to Ps.

lxxii. 17. The school of Rabbi Chanina said: Chaninah, according to Jer. xvi. 13. And

some say Menachem, the son of Hezekiah, according to Lam. i. 16. And our Rabbis say:

The Leprous One of the house of Rabbi, is His Name, as it is written Is liii. 4. Rabbi

Nachman said: If He is among the living, He is like me, according to Jer. xxx. 21. Rabh

said: If He is among the living, He is like Rabbi Jehudah the Holy, and if among the dead

he is like Daniel, the man greatly beloved. Rabbi Jehudah said, Rabh said: God will raise

up to them another David, according to Jer. xxx. 9, a passage which evidently points to

the future. Rabbi Papa said to Abaji: But we have this other Scripture Ezek. xxxvii. 25,

and the two terms (Messiah and David) stand related like Augustus and Cæsar. Rabbi

Samlai illustrated Amos v. 18, by a parable of the cock and the bat which were looking

for the light. The cock said to the bat: I look for the light, but of what use is the light to

thee? So it happened to a Sadducee who said to Rabbi Abahu: When will the Messiah

come? He answered him: When darkness covers this people. He said to him: Dost thou

intend to curse me? He replied: It is said in Scripture Is. lx. 2. Rabbi Eliezer taught: The

days of the Messiah are forty years according to Ps. xcv. 10. Rabbi Eleazar, the son of

Asariah, said: Seventy years, according to Is. xxiii. 15, 'according to the days of a King,'

the King there spoken of being the unique king, the Messiah. Rabbi said: Three

generations, according to Ps. lxxii. 5. Rabbi Hillel said: Israel shall have no more

Messiah, for they had him in the days of Hezekiah. Rabbi Joseph said: May god forgive

Rabbi Hillel: when did Hezekiah live? During the first Temple. And Zechariah

prophesied during the second Temple, and said Zech. xi. 9. We have the tradition that

Rabbi Eliezer said: The days of the Messiah are forty years. it is written Deut. viii. 3, 4,

and again in Ps xc. 15 (showing that the days of rejoicing must be like those of affliction

in the wilderness). Rabbi Dosa said: Four hundred years quoting Gen. xv. 13 in

connection with the same Psalm. Rabbi thought it was 365 years, according to the solar

year, quoting Is. lxiii. 4. He asked the meaning of the words: 'The day of vengeance is in

My heart,' Rabbi Jochanan explained them: I have manifested it to My heart, but not to

My members, and Rabbi Simon benLakish: To My heart, and not to the ministering

angels. Abimi taught that the days of the Messiah were to last for Israel 7,000 years (a

Divine marriage-week), according to Is. lxii. 5. Rabbi Jehudah said, that Rabbi Samuel

said, that the days of the Messiah were to be as from the day that the world was created

until now, according to Deut. xi. 21. Rabbi Nacham said: As from the days of Noah till

now, according to Is. liv. 9. Rabbi Chija said, that Rabbi Jochanan said: All the prophets

have only prophesied in regard of the days of the Messiah; but in regard to the world to

come, eye has not seen, O God, beside Thee, what He hath prepared for him that waiteth

for Him (Is. lxiv. 4). And this is opposed to what Rabbi Samue l said, that there was no

differences between this world and the days of the Messiah, except that foreign

domination would cease. Upon which the Talmud goes off to discourse upon repentance,

and its relation to perfect righteousness.