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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04456	Vindiciæ Judæorum, or A letter in answer to certain questions propounded by a noble and learned gentleman, touching the reproaches cast on the nation of the Jevves; wherein all objections are candidly, and yet fully cleared. By Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel a divine and a physician.	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing M381; Thomason E.880[1]; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 482.b.3[7]	31,719	45

Kings and Princes And this is especially done in the Synagogue by the Iewes Priests thrice a day I pray let such as love the truth see the Talmud in the quoted place and they shall find nothing of that which is objected onely there is recited in the said fourth Chapter the daily prayer which speaks of Minim that is Hereticks ordained in Tabne that is a town not farre from Ierusalem between Gath and Gazim c. the Talmud hath no more Hence Sixtus Senensis by distillation draws forth the foresaid calumnie when as what the Talmud rehearseth briefly to be made onely by the wise men in the said Town he saith was a constitution in the Talmud long after Now let us see what was done by those wise men in the said Town and let us examine whether that may justly offend the Christians There is in the daily prayers a certain Chapter where it is thus written la-Mumarim c. that is For Apostates let there be no hope let all Hereticks be destroyed and all thine enemies and all that hate thee let them perish And thou shalt root out the kingdome of pride forthwith weaken and put it out and in our dayes This whole Chapter speaketh nothing of Christians originally but of the Iewes who fell in those times to the Zaduces and Epicureans and to the Gentiles as Moses of Egypt saith Tract Tephila cap. 2. For by Apostates and Hereticks are not to be understood all men that are of a diverse religion or heathens or Gentiles but those renegado Iewes who did abrogate the whole Law of Moses or any Articles received thence and such are properly by us called Hereticks For according to the Law of Christians he is not properly an Apostate or Heritick who is originally bred a scholler and a candid follower from his youth of a diverse law and so continueth otherwise native Iewes and Hagarens and other Nations that are no Christians nor ever were should be be properly called Apostates and Hereticks in respect of Christians which is absurd as it is absurd for the Iewes to call the Christians Apostates or Hereticks Wherefore it speaketh nothing of Christians but of the fugitive Iewes that is such as have deserted the standard or the sacred Law 2. Lastly neither the kingdomes nor kings that are Christians or Hagarens or followers of other Sects are cursed here but namely the kingdome of Pride Certain it is that in that time wherein our wise men added to the daily Prayers the foresaid Chapter there was no kingdome of Christians what therefore that kingdome of pride was should any man ask who can plainly shew it So much as we can conjecture by it it is the kingdome of the Romans which then flourished which did rule over all Nations tyrannically and proudly especially over the Iewes For after that Vespasian with his son Titus had dissipated all Iudea And though som Roman Emperours after that became Christians or had a good opinion of Christianity yet the kingdome of the Romans was heathenish and without distinction was proud and tyrannicall And however the Iewes repeated the same words of the prayer when the Prince was very good and they lived under a just government that they did onely of an ancient custome without any malice to the present government And now truly in all their books printed again the foresaid words are wanting lest they should now be unjustly objected against the Iewes and so for Apostates and Hereticks they say secret accusers or betrayers of the Iewes And for the kingdome of pride they substitute all Zedim that is proud men 3. After this manner to avoid scandall did the 72 Interpreters who coming in Leviticus to unclean beasts in the place of Arnebeth which signifies the Hare they put 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is rough foot leaving the Name and keeping the sense They would not retein the Hebrew word Arnebeth as they have done in some other appellatives lest the wife of Ptolomy whose name was Arnebet should think that the Iewes had mocked her if they should have placed her name amongst the unclean beasts Neither would they render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lagoon or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lagon which in the Greek language signifies a Hare lest Ptolomy himself who was the son and nephew of the Lagi should be offended to see the name of his family registred among the creatures that were unclean Besides Plutarch records how that it was deeply resented as a very high affront and contempt when one asked Ptolomy who was Lagus his father as if it scoffingly reflected upon his obscure extraction and descent 4. The very like calumnie fell out concerning the very same Chapter of our Prayer when Mulet Zidan reigned in Morocco A certain fugive Iew to shew himself constant in the Mahumetan Religion and an enemy to his own Nation accused the Iewes before this king saying that they prayed to God for his destruction when they mention in their prayers all Zedim as though they would have all the Family of Zidan destroyed They excused themselves with the truth and affirmed in praying against Zedim that they prayed onely against proud men as that word in their Hebrew language properly signifieth and not against his Majesty The King admitted of their excuse but said unto them that because of the equivocation of the word they should change it for another 5. For certain the Iewes give no occasion that any Prince or Magistrate should be offended with them but contrariwise as it seems to me they are bound to love them to defend and protect them For by their Law and Talmud and the inviolable custome of the dispersed Iewes every where upon every Sabbath day and in all yearly solemnities they have prayers for Kings and Princes under whose Government the Iewes live be they Christians or of other Religions I say by their Law as Ieremiah ch 29. commandeth viz. Seek ye the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives and pray for them unto the Lord c. By the Talmud ord 4. Tract 4. Abodazara cap. 1. there is a prayer for the peace of the Kingdome from custome never intermitted of the Iewes Wheresoever they are on the Sabbath day and their annuall solemnities the Minister of the Synagogue before he blesseth the people of the Iewes doth with a loud voice blesse the Prince of the country under whom they live that all the Iewes may hear it and they say Amen You have seen the Form of the prayer in the book entitled The humble Addresses 6. In like manner the ancients observe that whereas God commands in Numbers 29.13 that seventy bullocks should be sacrificed upon the seven dayes of the feast of tabernacles that this was in respect of the seventy nations who shall one day come up to Ierusalem year after year to keep this feast of tabernacles Zechar. 14.16 for whose conservation they also sacrificed For they say that all the nations of the earth