[150]. Authority and Archaeology, 123-126.

[151]. Ezra, Chap. 1.

[152]. Isaiah, 42, 19.

[153]. For the ideas of this great prophet, see the Cambridge Bible for Schools, Isaiah, Vol. II, pp. XXII-XXXIX.

[154]. Isaiah, 42, 1-4.

[155]. Isaiah, 49, 1-6.

[156]. Isaiah, 50, 4-9.

[157]. Isaiah, 52, 13-53, 12.

[158]. Froude, Cæsar, 12-19.

[159]. For the whole picture see Mommsen, especially the very last page of his history.