Buddhism and Christianity: A Parallel and a Contrast

by Archibald Scott

[162]. Luke i. 1.

[163]. T. W. Rhys Davids, Hibbert Lectures, p. 128.

[164]. Oldenberg, Buddha, etc., p. 190.

[165]. Matthew xi. 27; xxviii. 16-20.

[166]. Mark i. 7-11; ii. 10-28; viii. 38; xii. 35-37.

[167]. Pressensé, Vie de Jésus, p. 373.

[168]. Cox, Commentary on Job, p. 19.

[169]. See Mahavagga, i. pp. 15-20, for specimens of the “three thousand five hundred” wonders of Buddha. “The marvellous in the Gospels is but sober good sense compared with what we find in ... the Hindu European mythologies” (Renan, Études d’histoire Relig. pp. 177, 203).

[170]. Godet, Lectures in Defence of the Christian Faith, pp. 118-161.

[171]. Dr. Dods, Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ, p. 201; Dr. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion as a Philosophy, p. 36.