sonal and
individual, is built on stubble." (John W. Chadwick.)

[508:2] M. Renan, after declaring Jesus to be a "_fanatic_," and
admitting that, "his friends thought him, at moments, beside himself;"
and that, "his enemies declared him possessed by a devil," says: "The
man here delineated merits a place at the summit of human grandeur."
"This is the Supreme man, a sublime personage;" "to call him divine is
no exaggeration." Other liberal writers have written in the same strain.

[509:1] "The Christ of Paul was not a person, but an _idea_; he took no
pains to learn the facts about the individual Jesus. He actually boasted
that the Apostles had taught him nothing. _His_ Christ was an ideal
conception, evolved from his own feeling and imagination, and taking on
new powers and attributes from year to year to suit each new emergency."
(John W. Chadwick.)

[510:1] This subject is considered in Appendix D.

[510:2] _Scythia_ was a name employed in ancient times, to denote a
vast, indefinite, and almost unknown territory north and east of the
Black Sea, the Caspian, and the Sea of Aral.

[510:3] See Herodotus, book 4, ch. 82.

[510:4] See Dupuis, p. 264.

[510:5] See Knight's Anct. Art and Mythology, p. 96, and Mysteries of
Adoni, p. 90.

[510:6] See Dupuis, p. 264.

[510:7] See Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 7.

[510:8] See Ibid. vol. i. p. 27.

[510:9] Ibid.

[510:10] Ibid. vol. i. p. 2, and Bonwick, p. 155.

[510:11] See Chambers, art. "Jonah."

[510:12] See Bible for Learners, vol. i. p. 152, and Goldzhier, p. 280.

[510:13] See Curious Myths, p. 264.

[511:1] "Whilst, in one part of the Christian world, the chief objects
of interest were the _human_ nature and _human_ life of Jesus, in
another part of the Christian world the views taken of his person
because so _idealistic_, that his humanity _was reduced to a phantom
without reality_. The various _Gnostic_ systems generally agreed in
saying that the Christ was an _AEon_, the redeemer of the _spirits_ of
men, and that he had little or no contact with their corporeal nature."
(A. Reville: Hist. of the Dogma of the Deity of Jesus.)

[511:2] Epiphanius says that there were TWENTY heresies BEFORE CHRIST,
and there can be no doubt that there is much truth in the observation,
for most of the rites and doctrines of the Christians of all sects
existed before the time of Jesus of Nazareth.

[512:1] "Accipis avengelium? et maxime. Proinde ergo et natum accipis