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Nevertheless, from their busy, enterprising habits, in which they emulate Europeans, they form an important section of the population of Bombay and Western India.

[452:3] Movers: Quoted in Dunlap's Spirit Hist., p. 261.

[452:4] Prolegomena, p. 417.

[452:5] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 162.

[453:1] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 163.

[453:2] Ibid. p. 142, and King's Gnostics, p. 71.

[453:3] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, pp. 135, 140, and 143.

[453:4] Quoted in Ibid. p. 186.

[453:5] Ibid.

[453:6] Renouf: Religion of Ancient Egypt, p. 81.

[454:1] That is, the Tri-murti Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, for he tells us that the three G.o.ds, Indra, Agni, and Surya, const.i.tute the _Vedic_ chief triad of G.o.ds. (Hinduism, p. 24.) Again he tells us that the idea of a Tri-murti was _first_ dimly shadowed forth in the Rig-Veda, where a triad of princ.i.p.al G.o.ds--Agni, Indra and Surya--is recognized. (Ibid. p.

88.) The wors.h.i.+p of the three members of the Tri-murti, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, is to be found in the period of the epic poems, from 500 to 308 B. C. (Ibid. pp. 109, 110, 115.)

[454:2] Williams' Hinduism, p. 25.

[454:3] Monumental Christianity, p. 890.

[454:4] See Mexican Antiquities, vol. vi.

[454:5] See Appendix A.

[455:1] The genealogy which traces him back to _Adam_ (Luke iii.) makes his religion not only a Jewish, but a _Gentile_ one. According to this Gospel he is not only a Messiah sent to the Jews, but to all nations, sons of Adam.

[456:1] See The Bible of To-Day, under ”_Matthew_.”

[456:2] See Ibid. under ”_Luke_.”

[457:1] See the Bible of To-Day, under ”_Mark_.”

[457:2] ”_Synoptics_;” the Gospels which contain accounts of the same events--”parallel pa.s.sages,” as they are called--which can be written side by side, so as to enable us to make a general view or _synopsis_ of all the three, and at the same time compare them with each other. Bishop Marsh says: ”The most eminent critics are at present decidedly of opinion that one of the two suppositions must necessarily be adopted, either that the three Evangelists copied from each other, or that all the three drew from a common source, and that the notion of an absolute independence, in respect to the composition of the three first Gospels, is no longer tenable.”

[457:3] ”On opening the New Testament and comparing the impression produced by the Gospel of Matthew or Mark with that by the Gospel of John, the observant eye is at once struck with as salient a contrast as that already indicated on turning from the _Macbeth_ or _Oth.e.l.lo_ of Shakespeare to the _Comus_ of Milton or to Spenser's _Faerie Queene_.”

(Francis Tiffany.)

”To learn how far we may trust them (the Gospels) we must in the first place compare them with each other. The moment we do so we notice that the _fourth_ stands quite alone, while the _first three form a single group_, not only following the same general course, but sometimes even showing a verbal agreement which cannot possibly be accidental.” (The Bible for Learners, vol. ii. p. 27.)

[458:1] ”Irenaeus is the first person who mentions the four Gospels by name.” (Bunsen: Keys of St. Peter, p. 328.)

”Irenaeus, in the second century, is the first of the fathers who, though he has nowhere given us a professed catalogue of the books of the New Testament, intimates that he had received four Gospels, as authentic Scriptures, the authors of which he describes.” (Rev. R. Taylor: Syntagma, p. 109.)