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Luke 1:28

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

This was a form of blessing among the Jews: so it is said of R. Joshuah ben Chananiah, a disciple of R. Jochanan ben Zaccai, who lived about these times, wtdlwy yrva, "blessed is she that bore him": and they had also a form of cursing among them, much after the same manner, as qnyya Nkd azyb jyl, "cursed be the paps that suckled him" .

The Jews, in their blasphemous rage against Christ, and all that belong to him, say of Mary, the daughter of Eli, by whom they seem to design the mother of our Lord, that she hangs in the shades by the fibres of her paps but this woman had a different opinion of her.

Pirke Abot, c. 2. sect. 8. T. Hieros. Celaim, fol. 27. 2. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 5. fol. 5. 1. T. Hieros. Chagiga, fol. 77. 4. & Sanhedrin, fol. 23.

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