Show popular old legend in tho the middle of the sixteenth century the legend of the Wan wandering derins jow received popular life in germany owing owin 9 to the claims of a man who announced himself to bo be the jude himself in hamburg he gave his bis name as and stated that he had been a shoemaker in jerusalem who would not suffer christ to rest at his door when fainting under the weight of the cross ile he struck jesus and ordered him jo to move on whereupon jesus besas said bald 1 11 I will stand here and rest but thou halt cobalt go on until tho the last day this mans story was wag subsequently published on the authority of a lutheran clergyman who claimed to have met the jew in hamburg |