of Bab., _Pesachim_, 67 _b_.] [Footnote 8: Talmud of Jerus., _Peah_, i.

1.] An exquisite sympathy with Nature furnished him each moment with expressive images.

Sometimes a remarkable ingenuity, which we call wit, adorned his aphorisms; at other times, their liveliness consisted in the happy use of popular proverbs.

"How wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."[1] [Footnote 1: Matt.vii.4, 5.

Compare Talmud of Babylon, _Baba Bathra_, 15 _b_, _Erachin_, 16 _b_.] These lessons, long hidden in the heart of the young Master, soon gathered around him a few disciples.