ABRAHAM Ben Chaila, a Spanish rabbi, in the 13th century, who professed astrology, and assumed the character of a prophet. He pretended to predict the coming of the Messiah, which was to happen in the year 1358; but fortunately he died in 1303, fifty-five years before the time when the prediction was to be fulfilled.
* Suidas in Enchyrid. See Jos. xxiv. 2
† Apud Genebrand. in Chron.
‡ More Nov. vocab. c. 29.
|| Heidegger. Hist. Patriarch. tom. iii. p. 36.
Abraham.
§ Trh. Hebraic. in Genesiu.
* It is the proper name of a city, and it also signifies ed fire. The Lat. version Edras ix. has it thus: Qui eligi cum de igne Chaldeorum.
† Antiq. lib. i. cap. 7.
‡ Heidegger. Hist. Patriarch. tom. ii. p. 143.
|| Advers. Har. p. 186.
§ Kirchen's Treatise of Libraries. p. 142.
Abraham fulfilled. He wrote a book, De Nativitatibus, which was printed at Rome in 1545.