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[214] P. 164, l. I. The five suns, etc.—Montaigne, Essais, iii, 6.
[215] P. 164, l. 9. Jesus Christ.—John v, 31.
[216] P. 164, l. 17. The Koran says, etc.—There is no mention of Saint Matthew in the Koran; but it speaks of the Apostles generally.
[217] P. 165, l. 35. Moses.—Deut. xxxi, 11.
[218] P. 166, l. 23. Carnal Christians.—Jesuits and Molinists.
[219] P. 170, l. 14. Whom he welcomed from afar.—John viii, 56.
[220] P. 170, l. 19. Salutare, etc.—Genesis xdix, 18.
[221] P. 173, l. 33. The Twelve Tables at Athens.—There were no such tables. About 450 B.C. a commission is said to have been appointed in Rome to visit Greece and collect information to frame a code of law. This is now doubted, if not entirely discredited.
[222] P. 173, l. 35. Josephus.—Reply to Apion, ii, 16. Josephus, the Jewish historian, gained the favour of Titus, and accompanied him to the siege of Jerusalem. He defended the Jews against a contemporary grammarian, named Apion, who had written a violent satire on the Jews.
[223] P. 174, l. 27. Against Apion.—ii, 39. See preceding note.
[224] P. 174, l. 28. Philo.—A Jewish philosopher, who lived in the first century of the Christian era. He was one of the founders of the Alexandrian school of thought. He sought to reconcile Jewish tradition with Greek thought.
[225] P. 175, l. 20. Prefers the younger.—See No. 710.
[226] P. 176, l. 32. The books of the Sibyls and Trismegistus.—The Sibyls[Pg 283] were the old Roman prophetesses. Their predictions were preserved in three books at Rome, which Tarquinius Superbus had bought from the Sibyl of Erythræ. Trismegistus was the Greek name of the Egyptian god Thoth, who was regarded as the originator of Egyptian culture, the god of religion, of writing, and of the arts and sciences. Under his name there existed forty-two sacred books, kept by the Egyptian priests.
[227] P. 177, l. 3. Quis mihi, etc.—Numbers xi, 29. Quis tribuat ut omnis populus prophetet?
[228] P. 177, l. 25. Maccabees.—2 Macc. xi, 2.
[229] P. 177, l. 7. This book, etc.—Is. xxx, 8.
[230] P. 178, l. 9. Tertullian.—A Christian writer in the second century after Christ. The quotation is from his De Cultu Femin., ii, 3.
[231] P. 178, l. 16. (), etc.—Eusebius, Hist., lib. v, c. 8.
[232] P. 178, l. 22. And he took that from Saint Irenæus.—Hist., lib. x, c 25.
[233] P. 179, l. 5. The story in Esdras.—2 Esdras xiv. God appears to Esdras in a bush, and orders him to assemble the people and deliver the message. Esdras replies that the law is burnt. Then God commands him to take five scribes to whom for forty days He dictates the ancient law. This story conflicted with many passages in the prophets, and was therefore rejected from the Canon at the Council of Trent.
[234] P. 181, l. 14. The Kabbala.—The fantastic secret doctrine of interpretation of Scripture, held by a number of Jewish rabbis.
[235] P. 181, l. 26. Ut sciatis, etc.—Mark ii, 10, 11.
[236] P. 183, l. 29. This generation, etc.—Matthew xxiv, 34.
[237] P. 184, l. 11. Difference between dinner and supper.—Luke xiv, 12.
[238] P. 184, l. 28. The six ages, etc.—M. Havet has traced this to a chapter in St. Augustine, De Genesi contra Manichæos, i, 23.
[239] P. 184, l. 31. Forma futuri.—Romans v, 14.
[240] P. 186, l. 13. The Messiah, etc.—John xii, 34.
[241] P. 186, l. 30. If the light, etc.—Matthew vi, 23.
[242] P. 187, l. 1. Somnum suum.—Ps. lxxvi, 5.
[243] P. 187, l. 1. Figura hujus mundi.—1 Cor. vii, 31.
[244] P. 187, l. 2. Comedes panem tuum.—Deut. viii, 9. Panem nostrum, Luke xi, 3.
[245] P. 187, l. 3. Inimici Dei terram lingent.—Ps. lxxii, 9.
