[12] Schürer, as cited, i, 3–4. [↑]

[13] Cp. Gunkel, Zum Verständnis des N.T., as cited, p. 20. [↑]

[14] The later documentists in such cases substituted an angel; but that was certainly not the early idea. See C.M. 112; Etheridge, Targums on the Pentateuch, i, 1862, p. 5. [↑]

[15] [Jer. xi, 13]. [↑]

[16] [Ezek. viii, 14]. [↑]

[17] P.C. 162. [↑]

[18] P.C. 321. [↑]

[19] E.g. the Biblical accounts of the adoption of Canaanite Gods by Israelites who married Canaanite women. [↑]

[20] E.g. the special adoption of Greek deities by Romans, apart from the political practice of enrolling deities of conquered States in the Roman Pantheon. [↑]

[21] S.H.F. i, 44–45. [↑]