[41] Ibid. pp. 149, 420.
[42] Ibid. pp. xxii, 28.
[43] It is to Dr. Lightfoot’s fine Excursus in St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, ed. 1881, pp. 186-191, that I owe all the Pauline texts and most of the considerations reproduced above.
[44] Visions of Jahve’s glory: i, 1-28; iii, 22-27 xl, 1; xliv, 4. The five other Ecstasies and Visions: viii, 1 foll.; xi, 1 foll.; xxiv, 1 foll.; xxxiii, 22; xxxvii, 1 foll. Second Sight: viii, 16; xi, 13; xxiv, 1. Representative Actions: iv, 1-3, 7; iv, 4-6, 8; iv, 10; ix, 11-15; xii, 1-16; xii, 17-20; xxi, 11, 12; xxi, 23-32; xxiv, 1-14; xxiv, 15-27; xxxiii, 22; xxxvii, 15-28.
[45] The above translation and interpretation is based upon Krätzschmar’s admirably psychological commentary, Das Buch Ezechiel, Göttingen, 1900, pp. v, vi; 45, 49. But I think he is wrong in taking that six months’ abnormal condition to have given rise, in Ezekiel’s mind, to a belief in a previous divine order and to an interpretation of this order. All the strictly analogical cases of religious ecstasy, not hysteria, point to a strong mental impression, such as that order and belief having preceded and occasioned the peculiar psycho-physical state.
[46] Op. cit. pp. 190c; 192c, 193a.
[47] See Prof. W. James’s admirable account of these irruptions in his Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902, pp. 231-237.
[48] Life, written by Herself, pp. 190b; 196b; 224c; 295c; 413b.
[49] Vita, passim; Life, ed. cit. pp. 40, 41; 408; 206. Vita, pp. 87c, 77b.
[50] Ascent of Mount Carmel, ed. cit. pp. 159, 163; 264, 265, 102, 195; Spiritual Canticle, ed. cit. p. 238; Ascent, pp. 26, 27; Canticle, pp. 206, 207.