[4.8] This work appears to have been written at the commencement of the second century of our era.
[4.9] The Ascension of Isaiah, vi. 6, et seq. (Ethiopic version.)
[4.10] Matt. iii. 11; Mark i. 8; Luke iii. 16; Acts i. 5; xi. 16; xix. 14; I. John 6, et seq.
[4.11] Compare Misson, The Sacred Theatre of Cevennes (London, 1707), p. 103.
[4.12] Revue des Deux Mondes, Sept. 1853, p. 96, et seq.
[4.13] Jules Remy, Journey to the Mormon Territory (Paris, 1860), Books II. and III.; for example, Vol. I., p. 259–260; Vol. II. 470, et seq.
[4.14] Astié, The Religious Revival of the United States (Lausanne, 1859).
[4.15] Acts ii. 1–3; Justin Apol. i. 50.
[4.16] The expression “tongue of fire” means in Hebrew, simply, a flame (Isaiah v. 24). Compare Virgil’s Æneid II. 682, 84.
[4.17] Jamblicus (De Myst., sec. iii. cap. 6) exposes all this theory of the luminous descents of the Spirit.