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22-25.)

[268:5] ”And behold there was a man _which had his hand withered_. . . .

Then said he unto the man, 'Stretch forth thine hand;' and he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other.” (Matt. xii.

10-13.)

[268:6] Tacitus: Hist., lib. iv. ch. lx.x.xi.

[269:1] See Chambers's Encyclo., art. ”Tacitus.”

[269:2] See The Bible of To-Day, pp. 273, 278.

[269:3] See Gibbon's Rome, vol. i. pp. 539-541.

[270:1] Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 102. See also, Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 16.

[270:2] Dionysius of Halicarna.s.sus, one of the most accurate historians of antiquity, says: ”In the war with the Latins, Castor and Pollux appeared visibly on white horses, and fought on the side of the Romans, who by their a.s.sistance gained a complete victory. As a perpetual memorial of it, a temple was erected and a yearly festival inst.i.tuted in honor of these deities.” (Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 323, and Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 103.)

[271:1] See Prefatory Discourse to vol. iii. Middleton's Works, p. 54.

[271:2] See Origen: Contra Celsus, bk. 1, ch. lxviii.

[272:1] See Origen: Contra Celsus, bk. 1, ch. ix.

[272:2] Ibid. bk. iii. ch. xliv.

[272:3] Ibid.

[272:4] Ibid. bk. 1, ch. lxviii.

[272:5] Ibid.

[272:6] Ibid.

[272:7] Dial. c.u.m. Typho. ch. lxix.

[272:8] See Isis Unveiled, vol. ii. p. 148.

[272:9] See Baring-Gould's Lost and Hostile Gospels. A knowledge of magic had spread from Central Asia into Syria, by means of the return of the Jews from Babylon, and had afterwards extended widely, through the mixing of nations produced by Alexander's conquests.

[273:1] See King's Gnostics, p. 145. Monumental Christianity, pp. 100 and 402, and Jameson's Hist. of Our Lord in Art, vol. i. p. 16.

[273:2] See Monumental Christianity, p. 402, and Hist. of Our Lord, vol.

i. p. 16.

[273:3] Monumental Christianity, pp. 403-405.

[273:4] Middleton's Works, vol. i. p. 19.

[273:5] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 59.