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.
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§ Heldinger, Hist. Potekarib. tom. iii. p. 35.
|| Heldinger, Hist. Potekarib. tom. iii. p. 35.
Abraham fulfilled. He wrote a book, De Nativitatibus, which was printed at Rome in 1545.