Note 329 — XXIV. ABRAHAM.[296] (continued 2)
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When King Sapor heard the R. Samuel explain that Messiah would come riding on an ass, the king said, “I will give him a horse; it is not seemly that he should ride an ass.” “What,” answered the Rabbi, “hast thou a horse with a hundred colours?” (Talmud, Tract. Sanhedrim, fol. 98, col. 1.)