The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[462]. 2 Kings 5 : 17.

[463]. Isa. 28 : 16; 1 Pet. 2 : 6.

[464]. Isa. 58 : 12.

[465]. 1 Cor. 3 : 10, 11.

[466]. 1 Pet. 2 : 5.

[467]. Eph. 2 : 20, 21.

[468]. Sura 3 : 90.

[469]. See Sale’s Koran, “Preliminary Discourse,” Sect. IV.; Burton’s Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, III., 149–222; Hughes’s Dictionary of Islam, s. vv. “Abraham,” “Adam,” “Arafāt,” “Hagar,” “Ishmael,” “Kaʿbah,” “Masjidu ʾl-Harām,” “Zamzam;” Sprenger’s Life of Mohammad, pp. 46–62; Muir’s Mahomet and Islam, pp. 12–17, 215–219.

[470]. Burton’s Pilgrimage, III., 260.

[471]. See, for example, Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, III., 41, 43; IV., 41; Hilprecht’s Freibrief Nebukadnezar’s, I., col. II., 26–60; Beitraege zur Assyriologie, II., 165–203, 258 ff.