[30] Religion of the Semites, p. 271.
[31] Religion of the Semites, p. 275.
[32] Golden Bough, ii. p. 321.
[33] Vide art. Kumhār.
[34] Religion of the Semites, p. 338.
[35] Ibidem, p. 281.
[36] Dr Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion, p. 150.
[37] Religion of the Semites, p. 285.
[38] Orphéus, pp. 123, 125.
[39] In following the explanation of the Passover given by Professor Robertson Smith and M. Reinach, it is necessary with great diffidence to dissent from the hypothesis of Sir J. G. Frazer that the lamb was a substitute for the previous sacrifice by the Israelites of their first-born sons.