[11] G. B. iii. 179.
[12] G. B. iii. 180.
[13] G. B. iii. 181-184. Laing's Knox, ii. 157-160.
[14] Hyde, Hist. Bel. Pers.(1760), p. 250, says that some call this ride an innovation, but they are wrong, and the ride is very ancient, in his opinion. G. B. iii. 183.
[15] Purim, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Religion, p. 51. Von Paul de Lagarde, Gottingen, 1887.
[16] G. B. iii. 183.
[17] G. B. iii. 184.
[18] G. B. ii. 186.
[19] G. B. iii. 183.
[20] Nehemiah vii. 7; Ezra ii. 2.