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Title: The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Tissot, James Jacques Joseph, 1836-1902 D'Anvers, N., d. 1933
Subjects: Jesus Christ Jesus Christ
Publisher: Toronto : G.N. Morang & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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"And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple;and he healed them."
The scene referred to in the Gospel must have taken place in the Court of the Women about seven o'clock in the morning, beyond the shade where the crowd is massed in my picture. There could have been none but Jews present, for to reach this court it was necessary to pass through the Chel or terrace surrounding the actual buildings of the Temple to which, as is well
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known, Gentiles were not admitted. The Temple at this early hour is full of the poor; the rich with their wide phylacteries and their gorgeous fringes will arrive later. In the distance can be seen the semi-circular steps of the Degrees, or Psalms, at the base of which devotees danced with torches in their hands at the ceremony of water-pouring at the Feast of Tabernacles. Originally this Festival was celebrated by a mere procession; but later, with a view to making it more impressive, specially decorated torches were introduced, and, as with all such customs, abuses gradually crept in. The Talmud refers to certain eccentricities of behaviour which drew considerable attention on those who practised them. Ben Jocades, for instance, boasted of the extraordinary leaps he took at the celebrations of festivals. We are also told that Ben Simon ben Lakist danced whilst juggling eight golden torches at once without letting them touch each other or dropping a single one.

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