THE

TABLE OF MATTERS.

ALLEGORICAL expositions in use before Christ's time

p. 19, 36, 46. Angel of the face, or presence of God, called the Redeemer, vide Dissert. Apocryphal books among the Jews, cited and followed in the New Testament

349.

12, 13, 14, 15.

Apocryphal books in our Bibles, their antiquity

Their freedom from corruption

Antiquity of those we have

Their interpretations

Christ. See Messias.

Divine Essence, its kind of unity
Plurality of Persons in it

Distinguished by the name Sephiroth
Prosopa

54, 55. 58.

161, &c.

129, 132, 135, 138.

138.

131.

136.

Panim or faces, and Havioth or substance

And Madregoth, or degrees

Wisdom coming from the Infinite

And Understanding from the Infinite by Wisdom 136.

Yet they are all one

Elias a kind of second Moses

137, 140.

196.

God, his name Eloah in the singular, used in Scripture 94. His name Elohim in the plural joined with a singular 94. He speaks in the plural, and why

94, 95, 96.

God understood by the Jews where only King is ex-
pressed
Why called God of Gods

His name Elohim signifies plurally

Greek learning discouraged among the Jews
Jews' early provision against the Christian

Law, by whom given

Messias to be like Moses

101, 129. 24.

objections 259, 260.

280, 281. 18.

Spoken of by all the Prophets

By Isaiah, chap. liii.

In Canticles

25, 214. 26.

20, 26, 215.

Rules for interpreting prophecies concerning him 27, 28. Messias expected, according to the Jews, ever since

33, 34.

To be united with the second number or Wisdom at

His great dignity

He is to be worshipped,

Messias a Shepherd

138, 204, &c. 267, 268, &c.

211. 214, &c.

219, 228, 240.

223, &c. 230.

Messias is God according to the Gospels 241, 242, &c.

232.

244, 253, 254.

Why Christ did not expressly assume the title of God

272.

Christ, or Messias, crucified for affirming himself to be the Son of God

Moses's education in Egyptian learning

312.

11.

Platonic philosophy out of credit in Philo's time 286, 289.
Occasioned the heresies in the Christian Church 290.
Plato's morality and not his divinity followed by the first
Christians
289, 290.

If Plato borrowed the notion of a Trinity from the Jews

Powers of God, what

They made the world

Philo's notions of them, but not so clear

291. 98, 118, 119, 121.

ib. 105.

125.

They are said to be the same as Wisdom and Under

Shekinah, the same with the Word

And sometimes used for the Spirit

262.

444.

315, and Talm.

333, 334, &c. 120, 218.

ib. 135.

The several appearances of it to the patriarchs, and under the legal dispensation

Called Father

133, 134, 230.

134.

And Jehovah, to whom prayers of the Jews were di

rected

224.

181.

195.

198.

199.

Its expected appearance in a visible manner in the age of

134.

Spirit made all things

Is a Person in Gen. i. 2.

An uncreated Being

And not air or wind

Called sometimes the Shekinah

But more commonly Bina or Understanding

Called by the Cabalists, Mother

And the Mouth of God, and the Spirit of Holiness, and

One kind useful to clear the text

To understand the prophecies of the Messias
Used by the Apostles in the sense of texts

Unity of Divine Essence according to the Jews 97, 216.

82, 83, 130, 139.