_"Could we with ink," &c._ (Vol. viii., pp. 127, 180.).-If Rabbi Mayir
Ben Isaac is the _bonâ fide_ author of the lines in question, or the
substance of them, then the author of the _Koran_ has been indebted to
him for the following passage:
"If the sea were ink, to write the words of my Lord, verily the sea
would fail before the words of my Lord would fail; although we added
another sea unto it as a farther supply."--_Al Koran_, chap. xviii.,
entitled "The Cave," translated by Sale.
The question is, Did Rabbi Mayir Ben Isaac, author of the Chaldee ode
sung in every synagogue on the day of Pentecost, flourish before or
since the Mohamedan era?