MIRACLES performed By, OR ON BEHALF OF,
75. The place of his sepulture being
unknown to, and undiscovered by any man
76. The eye of Moses not being
dimmed, nor his freshness abated up to the time of his death Deut.34:
MIRACLES PERFORMED BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, ALL OTHER PROPHETS.
ance of the pairs of
animals, &c., to seek
David (3). 30. The sudden death of
Joshua (5). 13. The division of the
waters of Jordan Jos. 3:16 14. The conquest of Jericho by blowing trumpets
15. The discovery of Achan's trespass by the lot.
16. The raining of stones
from heaven on his enemies
from heaven on his sacrifice. 1Ch. 21:26
35. Jeroboam's altar rent
by him. 1 Kings 13: 5
36. The drying up of the
king's hand which
was stretched out
against him.
37. Its cure on his prayer 13: 6
38. His death for eating
in the city contrary
to the Divine com- mand.
AARON-His death why bewailed, 270.-His delay respecting the molten calf, 199.- Why he did not die with the offenders, 199.
ABRAHAM-Anecdote of, 58.-Disputed with the Chaldean Sages, 58.-The reason of being tried, 72.-Thrown into a fiery fur- nace, 58.- Why called Hebrew, 58. ADAM-An appellation common to male and female, 17.-And Eve how created, 17. -Animal food not given to, 18.-Food allotted to him, 18.-Precepts given to him, 276.-Sentence against him how understood, 28.-The prototype of Isaac, 73.
ALLEGORY-Of a colloquy with the moon, 10.-Of R. Isaac Arama, 116.
AMALEK-Why to be hated and destroyed, 144.
AMBIGUITY-Has caused much mischief, 93. -Of Genesis 49:10, 93.
ANGELS Instruments of the Most High,
70, 91.-Learn what they knew not, 75. -Meant by the light of the first day, 5. -The ten degrees of, 152.-When as- sume the name of the First Cause, 70.- When created, 23.
ARK OF THE COVENANT-Supposed to have been two, 247.-What it contained, 299. ASTEROTH-its meaning, 160. ATTRIBUTES-God's, where specified and explained, 205.
AUTHOR'S-Address to the reader, ix. BAAL-A name given to the Sun, 159. BABYLONIAN-Captivity its cause, 62.- Joke on marriage, 29.
BIBLE-Number of each letter in it, 250.- The Hebrew never vitiated, 250.-The Latin and Greek frequently vary, 250. BIOGRAPHICAL-Account of the Author, xiii. -Notices of authors quoted, xvii. BIRDS-Of what created, 11.-Some wor- shipped by heathen, 160.
BLESSINGS-And curses, how delivered, 294. BODY OF MAN-A symbol of the Tetragram-
maton, 111.-Termed flesh and blood, 32. CABALA-Its rules derived from Scripture, 209 The necessity and meaning of it, 208.
CABALISTS-Compared to physicians, 208. -Opinion of the duration of the world, 43. CALF-The molten, cause of it, 198.-Jo-
sephus makes no mention of it, 201.-
CHARITY-How it should be given, 181.— Priority of claim to it, 284.-The benefit of doing, 181.-Should not be unneces sarily asked, 147.
CHASTISEMENT-Of love its meaning. 68. CHERUBIM-Difference between those of the Tabernacle and Temple, 191.
CHILDREN-How and where perished for their fathers, 165.
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER-Not strictly at tended to in Scripture, 49.
CIRCLE-Of all things commence and end with God, 3.-Divided into semicircles, 3. CLEMENCY-To be practised towards ani- mals, 37.
COVENANT-Meaning of the word, 242.- New, how explained, 240.
CREATION-Every thing created in perfec- tion, 127.-Of Adam and Eve, 17.-The order of the, 7.
CREATURES-All created in perfection, 127. DAGON-Its figure and signification, 160. DAVID-Comparison between the moon and the kingdom of, 54.-God's instrument, 300.-Sinned in numbering the people, 197.-Why pestilence, war, or famine, were offered him, 198.
DAY OF JUDGMENT-Why New Year is termed a, 275.
DEATH-Of Aaron why greatly deplored. 270.-Three kinds mentioned by David, 184.-Why good, 20.
DECALOGUE-Confirmatory of the creation, 173.-Explanation of its delivery, 148.— Why given in the Desert, 149.
DELUGE Announced 120 years previous, 34.-Duration of, explained, 38. DEODAND-Its foundation and meaning, 180.
DEUTERONOMY- Commences, 274.
DILIGENCE-And care recommended, 115. DREAMS--A curious one foretold, 255.- Different description of, 254.-Impossi bilities never dreamt, 255.-The causes of, 254.-Prophetic, how known, 256.
EARTH-Arranged before the heavens, 2.- Corporeal members attributed to it, how to be understood, 47.-Could not be without heaven, 3.
ELYSIAN FIELDS-Whence the appellation is supposed to be derived, 160. EQUIVOCATION-May be used for a good purpose, 50.-What termed so, 50. ESAU-Why he resigned Canaan to Jacob, 82.-Settled in Seir, 82.
EUPHRATES-Whence the name derived, 27. EVIL-Desires, why good, 20.-Eye, irra-
tional creatures guard against, 195.-Eye, learned men do not deny it, 195.-Eye, whence arises, 195.-Eye, whether it ex- ists or not, 194.-May be beneficial, 67. EXCELLENCE-Of ancient music, 249.-Of Nos. 5 and 6, 106.-Of No. 10, 105.- Of the Tetragrammaton, 107.-Of the square root, 106.
EXODUS-Commences, 100.
FALSEHOOD-Three descriptions of, 51. FEAR-Servile and reverential, 76.-Rever- ential, a theological virtue, 76.
FIRST-Born, why to have precedence, 80. -Born, how exchanged with the Levites, 248.-Born, how resemble the First Cause, 80.-Understood by logicians in four ways, 1.
FOOD-Animal, permitted to Noah, 19.- What first given to man, 18. FOWLS-Worshipped by the Babylonians,
FREE WILL-Always possessed by man, 113. -Hebrew writers on the subject, 121.- Proved by authority, reason and experi- ence, 113.-Proved in the case of Balaam, 265. FRIENDSHIP-Of God, how to be under- stood, 77.
GENESIS-Commences, 1. GOD-Acts in the world by intermediate means, 70.-Descending, how to be under- stood, 46.-Ever rewards good actions, 79. Has pleasure, its meaning, 36.- His names explained, 111.-How corpo- real members are attributed to, 47.-How He is termed "Friend," 77.-Immediate cause of miracles, 261.-Is the efficient, formal, and final cause of all beings, 106. -Is merciful in judgment, 138.-No con- ception can be formed of, 188.-Propor- tions himself to the weakness of man, 137. Remembering Noah, how to be un- derstood, 39.- Repents not, 35.-The beginning and end of a circle, 3.-The origin of first beauty, 8.-The proximate agent of miracles, 70.-What he con- sulted in making man, 13.-Why corpo- real members are attributed to, 47. GLOBE-An explanation of the, 158. GRANDFATHERS-Termed fathers in Scrip- ture, 100.
HAPPINESS The fruit of good conduct, 72. HEAVEN-Could not be without earth, 3. Created simultaneously with the earth,
HEBREW-Derivation of the name, 60, 58. HELL-Why good, 20.
HEZEKIAH-How his life was prolonged,
HUR-Killed for opposing the people, 199. I-AM, its signification, 103. IDEAS-Plato's, agree with the Cabalists, 108.
IDOLATRY-Descriptions of, forbidden in the Decalogue, 163.-When commenced, 30. IMAGE-Explanation of the Hebrew word,
INFERIORS-affect superiors, 36.
ISAAC-His likeness to Adam, 73.-Why considered the root of Israel, 73. ISAIAH-Why put to death, 187. ISRAEL-Have no common beggars, 284. -In Egypt 210 years, 61.-Meaning of the name, 83.-Not under planetary in- fluence, 275, 278.-Their comparison to the heavens, 53.-Their order at the de- livery of the Decalogue, 238.-Why liken- ed to the stars, dust, and sea-sand, 52.- Why termed Hebrews, 58, 60. JACOB-Purchased the birthright on the day Abraham died, 80.-Reason for seeking to get the primogeniture, 78.-Why at- tached to Esau's heel, 78.-Why he had the name of Israel, 83. JAH-Its signification, 103.
JUBILEE The Cabalistic opinion of the, 43. JUDGMENT-Why new year is termed a day of, 275.
KING-Manasseh put Isaiah to death, 188.
-Manasseh corrupted the Law, 296.- Why Israel sinned in asking one, 286. KINGDOM-Of David compared to the moon, 54.
LAND-Of Promise, how partitioned, 267. LAW-Adapted to the capacity of mankind,
177.-God's name erased from it, 296. -Its observers not under planetary influ- ence, 185.-Never forgot by Israel, 297. -Never to be changed by another, 235. -Of Moses a model for all others, 186. -Of Moses to be everlasting, 235.-Proofs of its perfection, 235.-The Oral Law where indicated, 206.-The book of the, found by Hilkiah, 297.-The necessity of it shewn, 214.-Perfect in the moral, ceremonial, and judicial, precepts, 235.- Where kept in the ark, 250.- Why given with thunder, lightning, and voices, 150. -Why recommenced as soon as ended annually, 175. LETTERS-Excellence of those forming the Tetragrammaton, 105.-Excellence of those forming the word ' “I AM,” 105.-Number of each in the Hebrew Bible, 250.-Number of cach in the Pen- tateuch, 250.-The root of every thing, 105. The world created by them, 109. LEVITES-How exchanged for the first-born, 248.-Taught music scientifically, 248. LEVITICUS Commences, 218.
LIBERALITY-Two modes of exercising it,
LIFE-How prolonged, 185.-Its cause, 183. LIGHT-Differs from darkness in three things,
5. From the first, four proceeded, 7.- Of the first day, what it was, 4.-The, God shewed himself in, 5. LOTS-How drawn by the first-born, 250. -For the partition of the Holy Land, 267. MAN-And woman created together, 17.- How made in the image and likeness of God, 15.-In what similar to angels, 14. -Means body and soul, 24.- Partakes of all the worlds, 14.-It would have been better had he not been made, 22. MANNA-Its various flavours, 142. MEDITATION-And study require solitude,
MANASSEH-King, erased God's name from the book of the law, 295.-Why he put Isaiah to death, 274, 187. MERCY-Of God seen in all his works, 20.
-Of God surpasses his justice at least 500 times, 168.
MIRACLES-Performed by, or for Moses, 304. --Performed by, or for other prophets,306. MOLOCH-An appellation given to the sun,
MOON-Created in Aries, 10.-Created in
opposition to the sun, 10.-How like the kingdom of David, 54.-Not to be wor- shipped, 285.-Receives its light from the sun, 10.-Why called both great and small light, 10.
MOSES-Asked of God a possibility and an impossibility, 201.-Did not require prayer to perform his miracles, 302.-Difference between his prophesies and those of other prophets, 186.-Fulfilled his full term of life, 140.-Had direct revelation, 202.- In four points excelled other prophets, 202.-In what superior to other prophets, 302. In what way he excelled other pro- phets, 301, 56.-King, legislator, prophet, and priest, 238-Saw in a clear mirror, 186.
MUSIC-Power of ancient, 249.-Taught the Levites, 248.-Vocal requires harmony,
186. NAME-Given at the time of circumcision, 84.-Of God, their explanations, 110.- Why Abraham's was changed, 84. NEW YEAR-Why termed a day of judg. ment, 275.
NISAN-Commencement of the sacred and regal year, 127.
NOAH-The seven precepts of, 276.-Why
animal food was permitted to him, 18. NOTES by the Translator-On Ancient music, 249.-Anecdote of Abraham, 58.-An opi- nion of Maimonides,215.-The Babylonian captivity, 63.-Cabala, 92.-On change of words and letters, 212.-Deodand, 180.- On the differences of Shamai and Hilel, 2. -The Divine presence, 89.-On the di- vision of the earth, 46.-On the dupli- cation of Hebrew words, 28.-On the Hebrew Bible, 250.-On the Holy Land
being the best part of the globe, 27.- On an interpolation, 126.-The incorrect- ness of Whiston's Josephus, 172.-0 individual prayer, 274.-Joshua reverenc- ing the angel, 164.—To avoid materiality, 109. The necessity of an Oral Law, 231, 217.-On Plato being taught by Jere- miah, 8.-On prayer against the Evi Eye, 196.-Respecting the Caraites, 216. -Sacrifices related in our Ritual, 223.- The Saducees, 63.-The Sephirot, 91.- How seven times vanity is reckoned, 21. -Set form of prayer not to be deviated from, 233.-On Sight, 195.-Of those for whom their is no salvation, 276.— On tradition, 214.-A translation from the Hebrew, 137.-On the Urim and Thummim, 267.-Why the in the Te- tragrammaton is incomplete, 109.-Why the roots of Hebrew words are of three letters, 111.-On the word jnn, 101.-
NUMBERS-Commences, 246.-5 and 6, their peculiarities, 106.-One, the beginning of every thing, 105.-Ten, the end of all and most perfect, 105. OPINIONS-Of R. Simeon ben Jochai on the
Oral Law, 207.-Of Maimonides on voli- tion, 114.-Of the ancients that Eve was created with Adam, 17.-On the cause of miracles, 261.-On the creation of heaven and earth, 1.-On the duration of life, 184. On the duration of the world, 43. -On the light of the first day, 4.-On the period of the creation, 127.—On the original work, vii.-Respecting dreams, 253. Respecting the Tetragrammaton,
Ox-The, worshipped by the Egyptians, 200. -The, venerated in Greece and the East, 200.
PATRIARCHS-Above planetary influence,56. -Acquainted with the Tetragrammaton,
PEACE-Offered before war commenced, 293. -Offered in two modes by Joshua, 293. -Offered, the two nations that accepted, 293.
PENITENCE-Obtains pardon for sin, 118.- Will shorten the present captivity, 63. PHARAOH-Induration of his heart, how to be understood, 118.
PHILOSOPHERS-Ancient, admit only what reason would demonstrate, 73. PLATO-A disciple of Jeremiah or Baruch, 8. PRAYER-Better in a congregation than in- dividually, 275.-Should be for proper objects, 276.-To be addressed to the First Cause only, 91.-When began, 31.-When most perfect and acceptable, 274. PRECEPTS-Four modes of observing them, 228. Given to Adam and Noah, 277.— May be suspended but not annulled,
PREFACE The Translator's, v.
PRIEST-Levites termed, 250.-Means a
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