[25:2] Samuel Burder, Oriental Customs, vol. ii, p. 226.
[25:3] Smith and Cheetham, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities.
[26:1] William George Black, Folk-Medicine, p. 165.
[27:1] Joseph Barclay, The Talmud.
[27:2] Scroll of parchment, inscribed with passages of Scripture.
[27:3] Psalm xxxiv, 7.
[27:4] James Hastings, D.D., A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, 1908, p. 360. Matthew, xxiii, 5.
[28:1] Philip Schaff, D.D., A Religious Encyclopædia.
[28:2] Biblical Things not generally known, 1879, pp. 177-8. Marduk, the Chaldean Hercules.
[29:1] James Hastings, A Dictionary of the Bible.