Note 831 — Chapter VIII · THE HEBREW SABBATH

1 Maccabees, ii, 31 sqq.; 2 Maccabees, v, 25-26, vi, 11, viii, 26; Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicæ, xii, 62. Plutarch refers to the Jews who allowed their enemies to rear scaling ladders and make themselves masters of their walls, and “so lay still until they were caught like so many trout in the dragnet of their own superstition” (De superstitione, 8).