[268:4] "And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand . . . and when he had spit on his eyes, . . . he looked up and said: 'I see men and trees,' . . . and he was restored." (Mark, viii. 22-25.)
[268:5] "And behold there was a man which had his hand withered. . . . Then said he unto the man, 'Stretch forth thine hand;' and he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other." (Matt. xii. 10-13.)
[268:6] Tacitus: Hist., lib. iv. ch. lxxxi.
[269:1] See Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Tacitus."
[269:2] See The Bible of To-Day, pp. 273, 278.
[269:3] See Gibbon's Rome, vol. i. pp. 539-541.
[270:1] Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 102. See also, Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 16.
[270:2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one of the most accurate historians of antiquity, says: "In the war with the Latins, Castor and Pollux appeared visibly on white horses, and fought on the side of the Romans, who by their assistance gained a complete victory. As a perpetual memorial of it, a temple was erected and a yearly festival instituted in honor of these deities." (Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 323, and Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 103.)
[271:1] See Prefatory Discourse to vol. iii. Middleton's Works, p. 54.
[271:2] See Origen: Contra Celsus, bk. 1, ch. lxviii.