[17] Cf. on the other hand Justin, “Apol.,” i. 35. [↑]
[18] [Esther v. 14], [vii. 10]. [↑]
[19] Cf. the picture of Marsyas hanging upon a tree-trunk in the collection of antiquities at Karlsruhe; also the illustrations in P. Schmidt, “Die Geschichte Jesu, erläutert,” 1904. [↑]
[20] Movers, op. cit., 687; Nork, “Reallexikon,” ii. 122 sq.; Frazer, “Adonis, Attis, Osiris,” 185 sq. [↑]
[21] [Rev. ii. 7], [xxii. 2]. [↑]
[24] [Exod. xvii. 10] sqq. [↑]
[25] For particulars see Zöckler, op. cit., 7 sqq.; also Hochart, op. cit., chap, viii., “Le symbole de la croix”; G. de Mortillet, “Le signe de la croix avant le christianisme,” 1866; Mourant Brock, “La croix payenne et chrétienne,” 1881; Goblet d’Alviella, “La migration des symboles,” 1891. [↑]
[26] Henry Petersen, “Über den Gottesdienst u. den Götterglauben des Nordens während der Heidenzeit,” 1882, 39 sqq. 95 sqq. [↑]