THE WANDERING JEW.

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1913, Page 7

THE WANDERING JEW.

Many nations have their own particular version of the story of the Wandering Jew. According to the Greek tradition, Aristeas, a poet, continued to appear and disappear alternately for more than 400 years, and visited all the nations of the earth. The German story is that John; Buttadarns was seen in Antwerp in the thirteenth century, again in the fifteenth, and again in the sixteenth, last of all appearing in Brussels in 1774. The French say that Isaac Lakedion is the Wandering Jew; the Italians, that he is Salathiel ben Sadi. One Jewish version of the story is that Cartaphilos, the doorkeeper of the Judgment Hall in the service of Pontius Pilate, struck our Lord as he led him forth, and that the latter bade him "Tarry till I come." Another Jewish version is that a cobbler named Ahasuerus behaved rudely to our Lord, and was condemned to lifelong wandering. The earliest record of the Wandering Jew is in the book of the Chronicles of the Abbey of St. Albans copied and continued by Matthew Paris in the year 1228. It is held by some that the legend is symbolical of the Jewish race, condemned to wander over the face of the earth.