1 This, like most other utterances of Jesus, found in this book but
not in the Gospels, is also found in the early patristic
literature.—ED.
2 _Ὄχλος τοῦ ἀγροῦ_, seemingly the translation of the Hebrew _עם הארץ_
used for those unlearned in the Law; this term seems to have passed
through much the same history as “pagan.”—ED.
3 Each of the Jewish rabbis used to sum up his teaching in some
pregnant sentence. These are given in the Talmudic treatise, _The
Ethics of the Fathers_.—ED.
4 José ben Joeser said, “Let thy place be a place of meeting for the
wise; dust thyself with the dust of their feet, and drink greedily
of their teaching” (_Pirke Aboth_, i. 4).—ED.
5 The rabbis use this expression, _Bath Kol_, for any supernatural
revelation.—ED.
6 This Logion is only found elsewhere in one MS. of the Gospels, viz.,
in the Codex Bezæ at Cambridge.—ED.
7 It must have been from a report of this discourse, and that given on
p. 92, that the majority of those utterances of Jesus have been
derived which are known in modern theology as “Agrapha.”—ED.