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:11] Ibid. [188:12] Ibid. [188:13] Vol. i. p. 118. [189:1] Quoted in Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 118. [189:2] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 20. [189:3] Beal: Hist. Buddha, p. 33. [189:4] Huc's Travels, vol. i. pp. 326, 337. [189:5] Mueller: Hist. Sanscrit Literature, p. 80. [189:6] See Maurice: Indian Antiquities, vol. v. p. 95, and Williams: Hinduism, p. 214. [189:7] "He in mercy left paradise, and came down to earth, because he was filled with compassion for the sins and miseries of mankind. He sought to lead them into better paths, _and took their sufferings upon himself, that he might expiate their crimes_, and mitigate the punishment they must otherwise inevitably undergo." (Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. ii. p. 86.) "The object of his mission on earth was to instruct those who were straying from the right path, _expiate the sins of mortals by his own sufferings_, and produce for them a happy entrance into another existence by obedience to his precepts and prayers in his name. They always speak of him as one with God from all eternity. His most common title is '_The Saviour of the World_.'" (Ibid. vol. i. p. 247.) [190:1] Quoted in Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 211. [190:2] Ibid. [190:3] See Renouf: Religions of Ancient Egypt, p. 178. [190:4] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 155. [190:5] Murray: Manual of Mythology, p. 848. [190:6] In Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 171. Quoted in Knight's Art and Mythology, p. 71. [190:7] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 185. [190:8] See Mysteries of Adoni, p. 88. [190:9] See Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. xxii. note. [191:1] Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 255. [191:2] Vol. ii. [191:3] Lactant. Inst., div. iv. chap. xiii. In Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 544. [191:4] See chapter xxxix. this work. [191:5] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 114, and Taylor's Diegesis, p. 163. [191:6] See the chapter on "The Resurrection of Jesus." [192:1] Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Prometheus." [192:2] "_Prometheus_ has been a favorite subject with the poets. He is represented as the friend of mankind, who interposed in their behalf when Jove was incensed against them." (Bulfinch: The Age of Fable, p. 32.) "In the mythos relating to Prometheus, he always appears as the friend of the human race, suffering in its behalf the most fearful tortures." (John Fiske: Myths and Myth-makers, pp. 64, 65.) "Prometheus was _nailed_ to the rocks on Mou
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