Gemarists

These things are handled by the Gemarists and Glossers very curiously and very largely, whom you may consult.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The Gemarists acknowledge that lights were lifted up upon some hills between those which they had mentioned; but these were the most known and celebrated, and therefore they named them only.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Let us by the way play a little with the Gemarists, as they themselves also play with the letters of the alphabet, and amongst the rest especially the letter Tsadi, there is Tsadi that begins a word [or the crooked Tsadi] and

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

I am not ignorant that the computation of Augustus 'reign might reasonably enough commence from his battle and victory at Actium; nor do the Gemarists count amiss, when they tell us that "the Roman empire took its beginning in the days of Cleopatra."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Now the reason they give why the old ones are so unmerciful to their own young is in Chetubboth, where the Gloss thus explains the minds of the Gemarists speaking of the young ones both white and black: "When they grow black the old ones begin to love their young, but while they are all white they loathe them."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

And probable it is, that the Gemarists retained some memory of our

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The Gemarists read it after the same manner, Ephraim, this story being added; "Jannes and Mambres said to Moses, Do you bring straw into Ephraim?"

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Jerusalem, and had rough and very craggy rocks near it: and that the sense of the Gemarists was this, -- In the way to Beth-horon, were three miles to the first verge of the wilderness, -- and the name of the place was Beth

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Gemarists distinguish between Chagigah and rejoicing.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Israel took the first night after their passage over Jordan, Joshua 4: 19; which, as Josephus relates, was distant only fifty furlongs from Jordan; but which the Gemarists guess to be fifty miles and more.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979