..." Moses received the oral law from Sinai and delivered it to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue." As an illustration of the bondage of their system, of the " weak and beggarly elements " to which they...

...same time with the written law, that by Moses it was delivered to Joshua, by Joshua to the elders, by the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue. Such is the statement of the Mishna itself, which the Pharisees accepted. The Sadducees, however, rejected...

...which was called the Masora, ie, the Tradition, because, says Abarbinel, " Moses delivered the law to Joshua, Joshua to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets delivered it to the men of the Great Assembly." [Extract in Beveridge on Article VI.] The Masora has...

...received the Oral Law from Sinai and delivered it to Joshua, and Joshua delivered it to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the great synagogue.1 They said three things, " be deliberate in judgment, raise up many disciples, and make...

...laws as authoritative as his. 2 Moses was said to have received the law on Sinai and then committed it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, the elders to the prophets, the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue, who thus, as the makers of the oral, took their place...

...with thee, according as it is said, ' Moses received the Law from Sinai, and the elders delivered it to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the Great Congregation ; ' and it is also said, ' from the time that the Temple was destroyed, the gift of prophecy...

...and his sons, and to the elders of Israel by word of mouth, who, by oral tradition, handed them down to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue." This opinion is founded upon a passage of the Talmud, in Berachot, page 1, where it is said, that by...

..."Moses received the (oral) law from Sinai, and delivered it to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue." They held themselves to be in the succession and to have the right to interpret and apply the law....

...laws as authoritative as His.* Moses was said to have received the law on Sinai and then committed it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, the elders to the prophets, the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue, who thus, as the makers of the oral, took their place...

...it we read that "Moses received the Torah from Sinai and delivered it to Joshua, Joshua delivered it to the elders, the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the men of the Great Synagogue," from whom it passed in turn to the Zugoth, as the Hebrews called them, — that is, the pairs of great...