by a reference to Levy's well-known Dictionary of the Targumim, Vol. 2, pp. 462b, 463a.2

Secondly, neither the word nor the rendering in question occurs in the Targum Onkelos, nor anything at all

like it3 (as implied in the language of Kuenen); while, Thirdly, it is used, not indeed in the Targum Onkelos,

but in the so-called Targum (Pseudo-) Jonathan and in the Jerusalem Targum (which in the whole of this

history closely follow Jewish traditionalism), but in the sense of "bruise," with evident mystic reference -

and what is more, with expre ss mention of its application to Messiah the King!

I will not be so rash as to say, Ex una disce omnes, but this instance may at least point the moral to our

caution. In conclusion, I can only repeat the apostolic assurance, as in this sense also expressive of the

feelings with which I close the present part of my investigations:

"NEVERTHELESS THE FIRM FOUNDATION OF GOD STANDETH!"

ALFRED EDERSHEIM

LODERS VICARAGE, BRIDPORT.