Note 33 — Chapter IV · JESUS AS THE MESSIAH.1
George Eliot translation
Nezach Israël c. xxxv. f. xlviii. 1. Schmidt, Bibl. für Kritik u. Exegese, 1, s. 38: משׂיח מפני תוהו. Sohar Levit. f. xiv. 56. Schöttgen, ii. s. 436: Septem (lumina condita sunt, antequam mundus conderetur), nimirum … et lumen Messiæ. Here we have the pre-existence of the Messiah represented as a real one: for a more ideal conception of it, see Bereschith Rabba, sect. 1, f. iii. 3 (Schöttgen). ↑