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APPENDIX TO LECTURE I.

had for his father; but it comes practically to the same thing as if it literally meant son: for we can scarcely avoid saying of him of whom we would speak as having Ner for his father, he is Ner's son.' Abdiel in the Jewish Expositor, 1828, pp. 126, 127.

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ודעו כי שלח אגוסטוס קיסר בעצת אנטונינוס הברו בכל ארצות ממשלתו עד מעבר לים הודו ועד מעבר ארץ בריטאניאה והיא ארץ ים אוקיאנוסי ויצו את כל מקום אשר בו איש או אשה מזרע היהודים עבד או אמה לשלחם חפשים בלא פדיון במצות הקיסר אגוסטוס

ואטונינוס חברו :

I.

תשעה טו הקיסר אגושטי היה איש חסיד וירא אלהים והיה עושה משפט וצדקה ואוהב ישראל : ומה שכתוב

בראש ספר, שבט יהודה שקיסר אגושטי עשה הרג רב ביהודים הלא המגיד כיחש לו כי לא מצאתי רמז מזה בכל הקרוניקים שראיתי מימי אדרבא בכל ספרי זכרונתיהם גם ביוסיפון פר טו כתב שהיה אוהב נאמן לישראל, גם בפרק מז כתב שהקיסר הזה שלח כתב הרות ליהודים בכל ארצות ממשלתו למזרח עד מעבר לים הודו ולמערב עד מעבר ארץ, בריטוניאה : (היא מדינת אנגאלטירה הנקרא בלא ענגל לנד'):

LECTURE II.

LECTURE II.

WHEN I had the honour of addressing you from this platform on Tuesday evening last, I endeavoured to establish, by circumstantial evidence, the probability that the Jews visited this country at a very early period of their history. I flatter myself, however, that I have succeeded in demonstrating that some Jews were certainly in this island in the very first century of the Christian era. How few, or how many, is doubtful.

It is not too much, however, to expect that some of your minds, at least, have been exercised on this important inquiry since we last met together. It is not at all unlikely that some objections against my arguments suggested themselves to your minds-objections

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OBJECTIONS ANSWERED.

which may at first sight seem both plausible and natural. For instance, I know that a question suggests itself on taking my view of the early introduction of the Jews into this country-why did not Julius Cæsar make any mention of them in his history of Britain? I meet it by another question. Did Cæsar omit nothing else? Read his writings and compare them with the works of later historians, and then tell me whether his silence on the existence of the Jews in this country furnishes any argument against their having really been here. If indeed he omitted nothing else but the Jews, there would then be some force in the argument, but since we know that Cæsar's history of Britain affords us but a bird's-eye view of the state of the country in his time, what then is the value of such an argument? Again, supposing that Cæsar wrote a minute and detailed description of Britain, would there have been any necessity on his part to mention the existence of the Jews? Certainly not; he wrote for the benefit of his

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