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[170:1] In the Apocryphal Gospel of the Birth of Mary and ”Protevangelion.”

[170:2] See Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 9. c.o.x: Aryan Mythology, vol.

ii. p. 58, and Bulfinch: The Age of Fable, p. 161.

[170:3] Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 27. c.o.x: Aryan Mytho. vol. ii. p.

34.

[170:4] c.o.x: Aryan Mytho. vol. ii. p. 44.

[170:5] Ibid. p. 69, and Tales of Ancient Greece, p. xlii.

[170:6] c.o.x: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 14.

[170:7] Ibid. p. 75.

[170:8] Ibid. p. 78.

[171:1] c.o.x: Aryan Mytho. ii. p. 81.

[171:2] Ibid. p. 84.

[171:3] Ibid. p. 150.

[171:4] Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 188. c.o.x: Aryan Mytho. vol. ii. p.

296.

[171:5] Herodotus: bk. v. ch. 92.

[172:1] See Farrar's Life of Christ, p. 60.

[172:2] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 168.

[172:3] There are no very early examples in Christian art of the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt. (See Monumental Christianity, p. 289.)

[173:1] Bible for Learners, vol. iii. pp. 71-74.

[174:1] See Monumental Christianity, p. 238.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE TEMPTATION, AND FAST OF FORTY DAYS.

We are informed by the _Matthew_ narrator that, after being baptized by John in the river Jordan, Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness ”_to be tempted of the devil_.”

”And when he had fasted _forty days and forty nights_, he was afterward an hungered. And when the _tempter_ came to him he said: 'If thou be the Son of G.o.d, command that these stones be made bread.' . . . Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, _and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple_, and saith unto him: 'If thou be the Son of G.o.d, cast thyself down.'

. . . Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, _and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world_, and the glory of them, and saith unto him:' _All these things will I give thee_ if thou wilt fall down and wors.h.i.+p me.' Then saith Jesus unto him, 'Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt wors.h.i.+p the Lord thy G.o.d, and him only shalt thou serve.' Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.”[175:1]