{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080017.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080017.htm","text":"I had prepared annotations for these pages which I find will require more space than this overloaded volume can afford. Let me indicate some sources of information which the student may find convenient. Thus, in Liddon\u2019s Bampton Lecture (4th ed., London, 1869), consult p. 71 for remarks on Philo and Alexandrian Jews; see also p. 91. Concerning the \u201cBook of Enoch,\u201d pp. 7 and 302; see Westcott, Study of the Gospels (London, 1867), p. 109, a reference to the Book of Jubilees, and its lack of reference to Messiah. See Jewish doctrine of the Messiah, pp. 86, 143, 151; the \u201cBook of Henoch,\u201d pp. 69, 93, 101; apocryphal words of Jews, p. 428. He places the \u201cBook of Henoch\u201d earlier than the \u201cBook of Jubilees,\u201d and the Twelve Patriarchs after that. Compare Westcott\u2019s Historic Faith (London, 1883), a quotation from Goldwin Smith, on \u201cthe blood of Christ,\u201d note 8, p. 237.\nI cannot forbear to note, among useful suggestions in these Testaments, that (on p. 11) of the share of Simeon in the persecution of Joseph. It explains the real purpose of Joseph in selecting Simeon as the hostage to be left in Egypt (Gen. xlii. 21-24.) Joseph heard the mutual reproaches of his brothers, and foresaw that Simeon would be made to suffer as most guilty: so he was withdrawn. Again, a like anxiety (Gen. xlv. 2) appears when Simeon was sent back with them to his father. Other suggestions may be noted as substantially illustrating the sacred narrative.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: The Testaments of the Twel...","type":"page"}