Se tire d'affaire : gets out oftke difficulty

6. Fumiste : a bad joker. Neologism. " M. Lorédan Larchey dans son Dictionnaire historique de V argot (10 e Ëdit., 1889) dit qu'un fumiste 'est celui qui fait fumer les gens ' (fumer au sens de faire bouillir d'impatience, je pense), mais c'est peu probable. Cela doit venir de quelque pièce de théâtre où un auvergnat faisait de grosses farces." (Paul Meyer.)

7. Encore un coup : once more. Encore une fois is more generally used. Page 4. — 1. La superbe : tke pride. Used hère as a noun.

Page 5. — 1. Corpus. " On a donné ce nom à des collections de confessions de foi ou ouvrages de doctrines ayant une certaine autorité, qu'on imposait comme règle de la foi et de l'enseignement."

a. Josué : f os hua.

3. Torah. The Torak (teaching) comprises both the statute law given by Jehovah, through Moses, to the chosen people, and the moral law revealed by the prophets, and also their traditional interprétation.

4. Ces . . . élohiste. Astruc (Jean), a French physician and theologian of the eighteenth century, in his Conjectures sur les mémoires originaux dont il paraît que Moyse s'est servi pour composer la Genèse, Bruxelles (in reality

Paris), 1753, was the first to notice that the name of God, in certain books of Scripture — in the book of Genesis, for instance, which he examinée! thoroughly — is now Jehovah, now Elohim, and that the parts in which one of thèse names is adopted differ somewhat from the parts where the other name occurs. Hence the conclusion that the book of Genesis was made up of différent fragments arranged by Moses in their chronological order. This distinction, be it said once for ail, prevails throughout the Pentateuch. In our days, critics distinguish between the supposed Jehovist writer or writers and the Elohist compilator or compilators.

5. Talmud. The Taîtnud is the name given to such interprétation of the Mosaic law as is apparent on the surface thereof, and does not necessitate any further disquisition, and also to the texts of Mishna and Gemara combined. The Talmud exists in two recensions, — the Palestinian, commonly, but by mistake, called Talmud Yerushalmi, and the Babylonian, correctly called Talmud Babli.