.--There is no mention of
Saint Matthew in the Koran; but it speaks of the Apostles
generally.

[217] P. 165, l. 35. _Moses._--Deut. xxxi, 11.

[218] P. 166, l. 23. _Carnal Christians._--Jesuits and Molinists.

[219] P. 170, l. 14. _Whom he welcomed from afar._--John viii, 56.

[220] P. 170, l. 19. _Salutare_, etc.--Genesis xdix, 18.

[221] P. 173, l. 33. _The Twelve Tables at Athens._--There were no such
tables. About 450 B.C. a commission is said to have been appointed
in Rome to visit Greece and collect information to frame a code of
law. This is now doubted, if not entirely discredited.

[222] P. 173, l. 35. _Josephus.--Reply to Apion_, ii, 16. Josephus, the
Jewish historian, gained the favour of Titus, and accompanied him
to the siege of Jerusalem. He defended the Jews against a
contemporary grammarian, named Apion, who had written a violent
satire on the Jews.

[223] P. 174, l. 27. _Against Apion._--ii, 39. See preceding note.

[224] P. 174, l. 28. _Philo._--A Jewish philosopher, who lived in the
first century of the Christian era. He was one of the founders of
the Alexandrian school of thought. He sought to reconcile Jewish
tradition with Greek thought.

[225] P. 175, l. 20. _Prefers the younger._--See No. 710.

[226] P. 176, l. 32. _The books of the Sibyls and Trismegistus._--The
Sibyls were the old Roman prophetesses. Their predictions were
preserved in three books at Rome, which Tarquinius Superbus had
bought from the Sibyl of Erythrae. Trismegistus was the Greek name
of the Egyptian god Thoth, who was regarded as the originator of
Egyptian culture, the god of religion, of writing, and of the arts
and sciences. Under his name there existed forty-two sacred books,
kept by the Egyptian priests.

[227] P. 177, l. 3. _Quis mihi_, etc.--Numbers xi, 29. _Quis tribuat ut
omnis populus prophetet_?

[228] P. 177, l. 25. _Maccabees._--2 Macc. xi, 2.

[229] P. 177, l. 7. _This book_, etc.--Is. xxx, 8.

[230] P. 178, l. 9. _Tertullian._--A Christian writer in the second
century after Christ. The quotation is from his _De Cultu Femin._,
ii, 3.

[231] P. 178, l. 16. (+Theos+), etc.--Eusebius, _Hist._, lib. v, c. 8.

[232] P. 178, l. 22. _And he took that from Saint Irenaeus._--_Hist._,
lib. x, c 25.

[233] P. 179, l. 5. _The story in Esdras._--2 Esdras xiv. God appears