[30] Die christliche Gnosis, 1835, p. 309. [↑]

[31] De Dea Syria, 40. [↑]

[32] Id. 32. [↑]

[33] Lenormant, as cited, p. 117. [↑]

[34] Irenæus, as cited. [↑]

[35] Lucian, as cited. [↑]

[36] Reland, Dissertat. Miscellan., Pars i, 1706, p. 147; cp. Enc. Bib. art. Samaritans, 4a. The dove was everywhere regarded in Syria as sacred, in connection with the myth of Semiramis (Diodorus, ii, 4), which bears so closely on the name Samaria. [↑]

[37] [John viii, 48]. [↑]

[38] Mem. the aged Simeon of [Luke ii], who blessed the child Jesus. “The Holy Spirit was upon him” ([v. 25]). With him is associated Anna the Prophetess. Cp. Hannah, mother of Samuel. [↑]

[39] Professor Smith, who accepts the historicity of Simon (Ecce Deus, pp. 11, 103) does so without noting that it has been challenged. It would be interesting to have his grounds for discriminating between the God and the man. [↑]