_ 313 I.e._, to improve its tone.

314 To clear its tone.

_ 315 I.e._, the Chazan that prays Musaph.

316 Nisan corresponded partly to March and April.

317 Joel ii. 23.

318 Marchesvan corresponded partly to October and November.

319 Part of November and part of December.

320 The fast-days of strict Pharisees were Mondays and Thursdays, because on a Thursday Moses went up to Mount Sinai, and returned on a Monday with the second Tables of the Law.

321 1 Sam. xii. 17.

322 Jonah iii. 10.

323 Joel ii. 13.

324 Prayers for the New Year.

325 Prayers for the New Year.

326 Ps. cxx. 1.

327 Ps. cxxi. 1.

328 Ps. cx.x.x.

329 Ps. cii.

330 1 Kings viii. 37.

331 Jer. xiv. 1.

332 Some understand the priests ministering in their course, others explain this expression by Deut. xviii. 8. The priests were divided into twenty-four Watches. Each Watch ministered for a week in the Temple. These Watches were again subdivided into seven "Father's Houses," and each "Father's House" officiated for a day in the Temple. A dispensation from fasting was granted to the priests on duty, that they might not be weak in the service of the Sanctuary.

333 This means the officiating priests.

334 The delegates were the representatives of the congregation, who attended at the public sacrifices, and prayed on their behalf.

335 This was a book written in Chaldee, as is proved by the quotations from it.

336 Amos iv. 7.

337 A stone on which lost property was deposited, and publication of it was made, so that its owner might reclaim it.

338 Prov. xxiii. 25.

339 Ps. cx.x.xvi.

340 Num. xxviii. 2.

341 Gen. i. 6, etc.

342 Deut. vi. 4, etc.

343 Part of March and April.

344 Part of June and July.

345 Part of July and August.

_ 346 I.e._, "thieves of the pestle and dried figs"; because when forbidden by Jeroboam to go up to the Temple with the first-fruits and wood, they deceived the watchers by saying they were only going to press figs.-Jer. Tal.

347 Part of August and September.

348 Part of December and January.

349 Antiochus Epiphanes.

350 Prov. x.x.xi. 30, 31.

351 Sol. Song, iii. 11.

352 The feast-offering ("chagiga") was the offering of individual worshippers, and was quite distinct from the sacrifices of the whole congregation. See "Treatise on the Pa.s.sover," vi. 4, note.

353 Exod. xxiii. 14.

354 Worth perhaps 3d.

355 Jer. Tal. says "Tabernacles."

356 Deut. xvi. 17.

357 Eccl. i. 15.

358 From motives of delicacy.

359 This must be done only by one (Deut. iv. 32).

360 Ezek. x.; Isa. vi.

361 This decision is for private sacrifices, but for public sacrifices there seems (according to the Talmud) to have been no "laying on of hands," except in the case of the scapegoat and the bullock, when the congregation had sinned through ignorance.

_ 362 I.e._, the Sadducees (Lev. xxiii. 15).