The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[689]. Luke 12 : 39; also Matt. 24 : 43; Exod. 22 : 2; Ezek. 12 : 2–7.

[690]. See The Sunday School Times for March 7, 1896.

[691]. The Rev. William Ewing, in The Sunday School Times for March 7, 1896.

[692]. John 10 : 1, 10.

[693]. Deut. 20 : 10–13.

[694]. See pp. 5–7, supra.

[695]. Plutarch, Symp., Bk. ii, Quest. 5, § 2.

[696]. See Smith’s Dict. of Greek and Roman Antiq., s. vv. “Athletæ,” and “Olympic Games;” Gardner’s New Chapters in Greek History, pp. 297–302.

[697]. A primitive wedding ceremony. See pp. 39–42, 142 f., 212, supra.

[698]. See, again, pp. 16 f., 46 f., supra.