διέρρηξεν. This act was enjoined by the Rabbinical rules. When the charge of blasphemy was proved ‘the judges standing on their feet rend their garments, and do not sew them up again.’ τὰ ἱμάτια in the plural, because according to Rabbinical directions all the under-garments were to be rent, ‘even if there were ten of them.’

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