[634] Isa. ix, 6 [5].
[635] Ps. lviii, 1 [2]; lxxxii, 1, 6. This last passage, however, is understood in John x, 34 f., to refer to Jewish men. The Hebrew text of Ps. xiv, 7 [6], is corrupt.
[636] De Groot, Religion of the Chinese. This is the philosophical form of the dogma. The root of the conception is to be found, doubtless, in the old (savage) view that the chief of the tribe has quasi-divine attributes.
[637] Knox, Religion in Japan, p. 64.
[638] In Alexander, 28. In the case of Alexander the influence of Egypt is apparent, and it may be suspected that this influence affected the later Greek and Roman custom.
[639] Appian, De Rebus Syriacis, lxv.
[640] Acts xii, 22.
[641] Boissier, La religion romaine (1878), i, 131 ff.
[642] Suetonius, Caligula, xxii.
[643] On the demand for a universal religion in the Roman Empire, and the preparation in the earlier cults for the worship of the emperors, see J. Iverach's article "Cæsarism" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics; Boissier, op. cit., bk. i, chap. ii.