Luke 6:38

into your bosom Pockets were unknown to the ancients. All that was necessary was carried in the fold of the robe (Heb. Cheyk., Psalms 35:13, &c.; Lat. sinus)or in the girdle.

with the same measure that ye mete Aproverb almost verbally identical with this is found in the Talmud (Duke's Rabbin. Blumenlese, p. 162), but it must be remembered that the earliest parts of the Talmud were not committed to writing till more than two centuries after Christ, and long before that time His sayings may have been -in the air," i.e. they may have passed unconsciously into the store of the national wisdom even among His enemies.