[9] See the author’s Pagan Christs, pt. ii. [↑]

[10] Above, p. 215. [↑]

[11] [Hosea, vi, 6]; [Psalms, xl, 6, 7]; [Ecclesiastes, v, 1]. [↑]

[12] Talmud, Yoma-Derech Eretz; Midrash, Vayikra-Rabba, xxvii, 11 and 12. [↑]

[13] Ch. lii (p. 69). [↑]

[14] [Luke xiii, 4]. [↑]

[15] Cp. Conway, Solomon and Solomonic Literature, 1899, pp. 57, 201, 219. [↑]

[16] [John iv, 21]. [↑]

[17] E.g., Plato, Crito, Jowett’s tr. 3rd ed. ii, 150; Seneca, De Ira, ii, 32. Valerius Maximus (iv, 2, 4) even urges the returning of benefits for injuries. [↑]

[18] It is impossible to find in the whole patristic literature a single display of the “love” in question. In all early Christian history there is nothing to represent it save the attitude of martyrs towards their executioners—an attitude seen often in pagan literature. (E.g., Ælian, Var. Hist. xii, 49.) [↑]