The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, from the Earliest Times to Their Final Expulsion from Those Kingdoms, and Their Subsequent Dispersion: With Complete Translations of All the Laws Made Respecting Them During Their Long Establishment in the Iberian Peninsula

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Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1848 - 384 sider
 

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Side 371 - Orobio studied the scholastic philosophy usual in«Spain, and became so skilled in it, that he was made professor of metaphysics at the university of Salamanca. Afterwards applying himself to the study of physic, he practised that art with great reputation at Seville, until, suspected of Judaism, he was thrown into the Inquisition, and suffered the most dreadful cruelties to extort a confession. His own account is the best we have of the sufferings of those persons who incurred the displeasure or...
Side 2 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Side 24 - The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond : it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars ; whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Side 65 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Side 384 - After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
Side 46 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Side 284 - King, use not thy subjects so cruelly. Why do thus to thy servants? Rather exact from us our gold and silver, even all that the house of Israel possesses, if he may remain in his country.
Side 150 - Similarly, we find the Jews of Tudela asking the viceroy of Navarre, "That he would be pleased to order and that we practise the Jewish law as our ancestors have hitherto ; that is, when a Jew or Jewess commits a sin, on our magistrates applying to the bailiff and notifying to him the sin committed, and the punishment it deserved according to Jewish law, the bailiff shall execute it, and enforce the sentence of our said magistrates, whether of condemnation or acquittal; or of any demand from one...
Side 10 - ... when in the Holy Land; but as early as in 304, we find the Catholic Clergy, fearing the connection of the inhabitants with the Jews might prove obstructive to the propagation of Christianity, enacted at the Council of Elvira the following Canons against the descendants of Israel. 2 " CANON 16.—The daughters of Catholics shall not be given in marriage to heretics, unless they submit themselves to the Catholic Church; the same is also ordained for Jews and schismatics. Parents who transgress...

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