[119]. Origen, cont. Cels. Bk IV. c. 33. Cf. ibid. c. 34, and Bk I. c. 22. Also Justin Martyr’s Dial. c. Tryph. c. LXXXV.
[120]. See Chapter III, vol. I. n. 6, p. 106, supra.
[121]. Karl Wessely, in Expositor, Series III, vol. IV. (1886), pp. 194 sqq., gives many specimens of these spells. The papyri from which they are taken are printed in full in his Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London, Wien, 1888, and his Neue Griechische Zauberpapyri, Wien, 1893. See also Parthey, Zwei griechische Zauberpapyri des Berliner Museums, Berlin, 1866; Leemans, Papyri Graeci Mus. Ant. Publ. Lugduni Batavi, t. II., Leyden, 1885, and Kenyon, Gk. Papyri in B.M. before quoted.
[122]. They sometimes speak of certain expressions being used by the ἀρχιερεῖς “high priests,” Leemans, op. cit. t. II. p. 29. Does this mean the adepts in magic or the heads of a sect?
[123]. Origen, cont. Cels. Bk. I. c. 24.
[124]. So Kuenen, Religion of Israel (Eng. ed.), III. p. 314, says that the existence of the Cabala is indicated in the Talmud.
[125]. See Chapter V, vol. I. pp. 169, 170, supra.
[126]. The Sumerian moon-god, Nannar, was denoted by the number 30, Marduk called 50 and so on. See King, Seven Tablets of Creation, 1902, I. p. 66.
[127]. See Chapter VII, supra.
[128]. Isidore Loeb, La Grande Encyclopédie, s.v. La Cabbale juive; ibid. F. Herman Krüger, s.v. Gnosticisme, and Franck, La Kabbale, Paris, 1843, p. 203, both notice the likeness between Gnosticism and the Cabala and say that they are derived from the same source.