[5]Genesis 22, 3.

[6]Genesis 22, 9.

[7]Cf. Thessalonians 3, 10.

[8]In Aladdin, Oehlenschläger's famous dramatic poem, Aladdin, "the cheerful son of nature," is contrasted with Noureddin, representing the gloom of doubt and night.

[9]Matthew 5, 45.

[10]Cf. not the legend but Plato's Symposion.

[11]Matthew 3, 9.

[12]Isaiah 26, 18.

[13]Themistocles, that is; see Plutarch, Lives.

[14]Matthew 19, 16f.