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[280:3] See ch. xviii.
[280:4] Matt. ii. 13.
[280:5] See ch. xviii.
[280:6] Matt. ii. 16.
[280:7] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 317. Asiatic Researches, vol. i. p.
259.
[280:8] Introduc. to Infancy, Apoc. Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p.
130. Savary: Travels in Egypt, vol. i. p. 126, in Hist. Hindostan, vol.
ii. p. 318.
[280:9] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 316.
[280:10] "Elizabeth, hearing that her son John was about to be searched for (by Herod), took him and went up into the mountains, and looked around for a place to hide him.... But Herod made search after John, and sent servants to Zacharias," &c. (Protevangelion, Apoc. ch. xvi.)
[280:11] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 321.
[281:1] Infancy, Apoc., ch. xx. 1-8.
[281:2] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 321.
[281:3] Infancy, Apoc., ch. xviii. 1-3.
[281:4] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 343.
[281:5] Infancy, Apoc., ch. xviii.
[281:6] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 340. Aryan Mytho., vol. ii. p. 136.
[281:7] Infancy, Apoc., ch. xvii.
[281:8] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 319, and ch. xxvii. this work.
[281:9] Matthew, viii. 2.
[281:10] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 320.
[281:11] Matt. xxvi. 6-7.
[281:12] See ch. xx.
[282:1] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 71.
[282:2] Matt. xxii. Luke, xxviii.
[282:3] See ch. xx.
[282:4] John, xix. 34.
[282:5] See Vishnu Purana, p. 612.
[282:6] Luke, xxiii. 43.
[282:7] See ch. xxii.
[282:8] See Ibid.
[282:9] See ch. xxiii.
[282:10] Matt. xxviii.
[282:11] See ch. xxiii.
[282:12] See Acts, i. 9-11.
[282:13] See ch. xxiv.
[282:14] See pa.s.sages quoted in ch. xxiv.
[282:15] See Oriental Religions, p. 504.
[282:16] Matt. xxiv. 31. Rom. xiv. 10.
[282:17] See ch. xxvi.
[282:18] John, i. 3. I. Cor. viii. 6. Eph. iii. 9.
[282:19] See Geeta, lec. x. p. 85.
[282:20] Rev. i. 8, 11; xxii. 13; xxi. 6.
[282:21] He is described as a superhuman organ of light, to whom the superhuman organ of darkness, the evil serpent, was opposed. He is represented "bruising the head of the serpent," and standing upon him.
(See ill.u.s.trations in vol. i. Asiatic Researches; vol. ii. Higgins'
Anacalypsis; Calmet's Fragments, and other works ill.u.s.trating Hindoo Mythology.)
[282:22] Jesus, "the Sun of Righteousness," is also described as a superhuman organ of light, opposed by Satan, "the old serpent." He is claimed to have been the seed of the woman who should "bruise the head of the serpent." (Genesis, iii. 15.)
[283:1] See ch. xxvii.
[283:2] According to the New Testament.
[283:3] See Bhagavat Geeta.
[283:4] John, xiii. 23.