public in the form in which it originally was delivered without any except slight, verbal changes. “And be indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.” The Talmud, (Abodah zarah, 55, a) gives a dialogue between Zeno the founder of the Stoic school and R. Akiba, in which the philosopher is reported to say: Although both of us know that there is nothing essential in Christianity, how is it that so many sick are healed in the Christian churches? Between Zeno and R. Akiba there is an
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