[361] Asiatic Researches.
[362] Matt. x. 26.
[363] This will explain a text in Scripture never before understood, namely, “Son of Man, when the land sinneth against Me by tresspassing grievously, then will I stretch out Mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it” (Ezek. xiv. 13). Fogh is another term equivalent to this.
[364] This will at once appear from Varro, who, in Nonus Marcellinus, is made to say, “We are barbarians, because that we crucify (in gabalum suffigimus) the innocent; are you not barbarians, when you acquit the guilty?” Compare also Selden, Syntagm. ii. c. 1.
[365] Mithra signat illic in frontibus milites suos (Tertullian, de Præscrip. cap. xi.).
[366] Ezek. ix. 4, 5, 6.
[367] John iii. 10. The omission of this cross from the text of our translation may afford some handle to the enemies of religion.
[368] Matt. vi. 27.
[369] Cunni Diaboli.
[370] The rosary was also anterior to Christianity.