The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-30
The House that JACK Built.
THE JEWISH ORIGIN OF THE CELEBRATED
LEGEND, THE HOUSE THAT
JACK BUILTn

fact. The original, in the Chaldee Ian
guage, is now lying before me, and as
may not be unintereSting to the reader
of the Congregational Magazine, I Wi
here furnish them with literal transla
ton of it, and then add the interpreta
ton AS given by p. n. Leberecht, Leip
zic, 1731. The hymn itself is found il
Sepher Haggahah, vol %:
l. 4 kid. a kid, my father bought,
For two pieces of money:
kid, a kid.
.. Then came the cat, and ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid a kid.
3. Then came the dog, and bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces OF money:
Kid, kid.
4. Then came the staff, and beat the dog,
That bit the cat.
Tat ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
kid, kid.
), Then came the fire, and burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
a kid, Il kid.
6. Then came the water and quenched the fire
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, kid.
:. Then came the OK. and drank the water.
nhnd tha
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, kid.
s. Then came the butcher, and slew the OK,
That drank the water,
That quenched the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, kid.
9. Then came the angel of death, and killed
the butcher,
That slew the OK,
That drank the water,
That quenched the fire,
That burnt the staff
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, kid.
10. Then came .the Holy One, blessed be He,
And killed the angel Of death,
That killed the butcher,
That slew the OK,
That drank the water.
That quenched the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money
\ kid, q kid.
The following is the Interpretation
|. The kid, which is one of the nure
denotes the Hebrews. The
father by whom it was purchased is
Jehovah, who represents himself as sus-
tanning this relation to the Hebrew ma
ton. The pieces of money signify Mos
IS and Aaron, through whose medium
the Hebrews were brought out of Egypt.
2. The cat denotes the Assyrians, by
whom the ten tribes were carried into
captivity.
8: The dog is symbolical of the Baby
Onians.
4. The staff signifies the Persians.
5. The fire indicates the Grecian en-
oire under Alexander the Great.
:, 6, The water betOkens the Romans or
he fourth of the great mOnarchies to
whom the Jews were subjected.
7. The OK is symbol of the Saracens,
who subdued Palestine and brought it
lnder the Caliphate,
8. The butcher that killed the OK de-
notes the Crusaders, by whom the holy
and was wrested out of the hands of
he Saracens.
9. The angel of death signifies the
Iurkish power, by which the land OF
was taken from the Franks, to
whom it is still subject.
10. The commencement of the tenth
'tanza is designed to show that God will
AXE single vengeance on the Turks, I'M
nediately after whose overthrow the
Jews are to be restored to their own
and, and live under the government Of
heir long expected Messiah.-[L. G..
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