Note 16 — Chapter VI · THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS IN THE THREE FIRST GOSPELS.1
George Eliot translation
The Rabbins also attached weight to these Mosaic blessings and curses, vid. Lightfoot, p. 255. As here we have eight blessings, they held that Abraham had beenblessed benedictionibus septem (Baal Turim, in Gen. xii. Lightfoot, p. 256); David, Daniel with his three companions, and the Messiah, benedictionibus sex. (Targ. Ruth. 3, ibid.) They also counted together with the twenty beatitudines in the Psalms, as many væ in Isaiah. (Midrasch Tehillim in Ps. i. ib.). ↑