Their _Schools_ were different from their _Synagogues_. _Paul_ having disputed for the space of three months in the _Synagogue_, because divers believed not, but spake evil of that way, he departed from them, and separated his Disciples, disputing daily in the _School_ of one _Tyrannus_; _Act. 19. 8, 9, 10._
Their School sometimes is called בית _Beth_, an _house_, simply, as appeareth by that saying;[214] _Octodecim res de quibus contentio fuit inter domum Sammai, & domum Hillel, ne Elias quidem abolere posset_. Those 18 matters controverted between the _house_ of _Sammai_, and the _house_ of _Hillel_, _Elias_ himself could not decide; that is, between their two _Schools_. Sometime it is called בית המדרש _Beth Hammidrasch_, an house of subtle and acute exposition. Here points were more exactly and punctually discussed, than in the _Synagogue_, or _Temple_; whence they held it a profounder place for exposition, than the Temple: To this purpose tend those sayings,[215] _They might turn a Synagogue into a School, but not a School into a Synagogue, for the sanctity of a School is beyond the sanctity of a Synagogue_. And that groweth from _Vertue to vertue_, _Psa. 84. 7._ they interpret[216] a kind of _promotion_, or _degree_, in removing _from their Temple to their School_. In their _Temple_, their Sermons were, as it were, _Ad populum_; in their Schools, _Ad Clerum_.
[214] _Drusius de tribus sect. l. 2. c. 10._
[215] _Maimon. Tephilla. c. 11. Sect. 14._
As they had _Synagogues_, so likewise _Schools_, in every City and Province; and these were built also upon hills. There is mention of the hill _Moreb_, _Judg. 7. 1._ that is, _the hill of the Teacher_.
The _Masters_ when they taught their Scholars, were said to _give_: _Give unto the wise, and he will be wiser_, _Prov. 9. 9._
The _Scholars_ when they learned any thing, were said to _receive it_: _Hear my Son, and receive my words_, _Prov. 4. 10._ Hence is that of the Apostle: _This is a true saying, and by all means worthy to be received_, _1 Tim. 1. 15._ that is, _learned_. The like phrase of speech are in use among the _Latines_.[217]
[217] _Da, si grave non est. Hor. l. 2. Satyr. 8. Sed tamen iste Deus qui sit, da Tytere nobis Virg. Bucol. Accipe nunc Danaum insidias. Virg. Æneid l. 2._