[51] Cf. The Semites, W. Robertson Smith, iii. v.
[52] Cf. The Semites, W. Robertson Smith, pp. 197, etc.
[53] Tent Work, pp. 68, 204.
[54] Cf. The Semites, Robertson Smith, pp. 16, 17.
[55] East of the Jordan, Merrill, p. 193.
[56] The early Christian belief that the gods of paganism were demons has died hard, if indeed it be quite dead. The “weird horsemen” who in windy nights are to be heard galloping down lonely valleys lead us back to that interesting custom by which a horse was actually provided in some of the temples of the Syrian Herakles, to that the god might ride forth at night.
[57] Haifa, Laurence Oliphant, p. 300.
[58] Job iv. 14-16.
[59] The Cradle of Christianity, D. M. Ross, p. 60.
[60] See p. 36.