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FOOTNOTES:
[419:1] "Numerous bodies of ascetics (Therapeutæ), especially near Lake Mareotis, devoted themselves to discipline and study, abjuring society and labor, and often forgetting, it is said, the simplest wants of nature, in contemplating the hidden wisdom of the Scriptures. Eusebius even claimed them as Christians; and some of the forms of monasticism were evidently modeled after the Therapeutæ." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, art. "Alexandria.")
[420:1] Comp. Matt. vi. 33; Luke, xii. 31.
[420:2] Comp. Matt. vi. 19-21.
[420:3] Comp. Matt. xix. 21; Luke, xii. 33.
[420:4] Comp. Acts, ii. 44, 45; iv. 32-34; John, xii. 6; xiii. 29.
[420:5] Comp. Matt. xx. 25-28; Mark, ix. 35-37; x. 42-45.
[420:6] Comp. Matt. xxiii. 8-10.
[420:7] Comp. Matt. v. 5; xi. 29.
[420:8] Comp. Mark, xvi. 17; Matt. x. 8; Luke, ix. 1, 2; x. 9.
[420:9] Comp. Matt. v. 34.
[420:10] Comp. Matt. x. 9, 10.
[421:1] Comp. Luke, xxii. 36.
[421:2] Comp. Matt. xix. 10-12; I. Cor. viii.
[421:3] Comp. Rom. xii. 1.
[421:4] Comp. I. Cor. xiv. 1, 39.
[421:5] The above comparisons have been taken from Ginsburg's "Essenes," to which the reader is referred for a more lengthy observation on the subject.
[421:6] Ginsburg's Essenes, p. 24.
[421:7] "We hear very little of them after A. D. 40; and there can hardly be any doubt that, owing to the great similarity existing between their precepts and practices and those of primitive Christians, the Essenes as a body must have embraced Christianity." (Dr. Ginsburg, p. 27.)
[422:1] This will be alluded to in another chapter.
[422:2] It was believed by some that the order of Essenes was instituted by Elias, and some writers asserted that there was a regular succession of hermits upon Mount Carmel from the time of the prophets to that of Christ, and that the hermits embraced Christianity at an early period. (See Ginsburgh's Essenes, and Hardy's Eastern Monachism, p. 358.)
[422:3] King's Gnostics and their Remains, p. 1.
[422:4] Ibid. p. 6.
[422:5] King's Gnostics, p. 23.
[422:6] Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. xvii.
[423:1] Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. xvii.
[423:2] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. vii. "The New Testament is the Essene-Nazarene Glad Tidings! Adon, Adoni, Adonis, style of worship." (S. F. Dunlap: Son of the Man, p. iii.)
[423:3] Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 747; vol. ii. p. 34.
[423:4] "In this," says Mr. Lillie, "he was supported by philosophers of the calibre of Schilling and Schopenhauer, and the great Sanscrit authority, Lassen. Renan also sees traces of this Buddhist propagandism in Palestine before the Christian era. Hilgenfeld, Mutter, Bohlen, King, all admit the Buddhist influence. Colebrooke saw a striking similarity between the Buddhist philosophy and that of the Pythagoreans. Dean Milman was convinced that the Therapeuts sprung from the 'contemplative and indolent fraternities' of India." And, he might have added, the Rev. Robert Taylor in his "Diegesis," and Godfrey Higgins in his "Anacalypsis," have brought strong arguments to bear in support of this theory.
[424:1] Buddha and Early Buddhism, p. vi.
[424:2] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 121.
[424:3] Ibid. p. 240.
[425:1] "The Essenes abounded in Egypt, especially about Alexandria." (Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. xvii.)
[425:2] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 255.
[426:1] Rhys Davids' Buddhism, p. 179.