on the altar of the Sun (at
Heliopolis) and rise again from its ashes, at the end of a certain
period."

[426:3] "Philo's writings prove the probability, almost rising to a
certainty, that already in his time the Essenes did expect an
Angel-Messiah as one of a series of divine incarnations. Within about
fifty years after Philo's death, Elkesai the Essene probably applied
this doctrine to Jesus, and it was promulgated in Rome about the same
time, if not earlier, by the Pseudo-Clementines." (Bunsen: The
Angel-Messiah, p. 118.)

"There was, at this time (_i. e._, at the time of the birth of Jesus), a
prevalent expectation that some remarkable personage was about to appear
in Judea. The Jews were anxiously looking for the coming of the
_Messiah_. By computing the time mentioned by Daniel (ch. ix. 23-27),
they knew that the period was approaching when the Messiah should
appear. This personage, _they supposed_, would be a temporal prince, and
they were expecting that he would deliver them from Roman bondage. _It
was natural that this expectation should spread into other countries._"
(Barnes' Notes, vol. i. p. 27.)

[427:1] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 273.

[427:2] See Lardner's Works, vol. viii. p. 353.

[427:3] Apol. 1, ch. xxvi.

[428:1] See Lardner's Works, vol. viii. p. 593.

[428:2] Socrates: Eccl. Hist., lib. i. ch. xvii.

[429:1] Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 3, ch. xxiii.

[429:2] Ibid. lib. 7, ch. xxx.

[429:3] The death of Manes, according to Socrates, was as follows: The
King of Persia, hearing that he was in Mesopotamia, "made him to be
apprehended, flayed him alive, took his skin, filled it full of chaff,
and hanged it at the gates of the city." (Eccl. Hist., lib. 1, ch. xv.)

[430:1] Plato in Apolog. Anac., ii. p. 189.

[431:1] Mark, xiii. 21, 22.

[432:1] Geikie: Life of Christ, vol. i. p. 79.

[433:1] Frothingham's Cradle of the Christ.

[433:2] "The prevailing opinion of the Rabbis and the people alike, in
Christ's day, was, that the Messiah would be simply a great prince, who
should found a kingdom of matchless splendor." "With a few, however, the
conception of the Messiah's kingdom was pure and lofty. . . . Daniel,
and all who wrote after him, painted the 'Expected One' as a _heavenly
being_. He was the 'messenger,' the 'Elect of God,' appointed from
eternity, to appear in due time, and _redeem_ his people." (Geikie's
Life of Christ, vol. i. pp. 80, 81.)

In the book of _Daniel_, by som