ls_, and
_barbarians_.

[267:4] "And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them,
walking on the sea." (Matt. xiv. 25.)

[267:5] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. ii. p. 236. We have it on the authority
of _Strabo_ that Roman priests walked barefoot over burning coals,
without receiving the slightest injury. This was done in the presence of
crowds of people. _Pliny_ also relates the same story.

[267:6] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. ii. p. 236.

[267:7] Athenagoras, Apolog. p. 25. Quoted in Middleton's Works, vol. i.
p. 62.

[267:8] Geikie: Life of Christ, vol. ii. p. 619.

[268:1] Geikie: Life of Christ, vol. i. p. 75.

[268:2] Jewish Antiquities, bk. viii. ch. ii.

[268:3] Middleton's Works, vol. i. p. 68.

[268:4] "And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring a _blind man_ unto
him, and besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the
hand . . . _and when he had spit on his eyes_, . . . he looked up and
said: 'I see men and trees,' . . . and he was restored." (Mark, viii.
22-25.)

[268:5] "And behold there was a man _which had his hand withered_. . . .
Then said he unto the man, 'Stretch forth thine hand;' and he stretched
it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other." (Matt. xii.
10-13.)

[268:6] Tacitus: Hist., lib. iv. ch. lxxxi.

[269:1] See Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Tacitus."

[269:2] See The Bible of To-Day, pp. 273, 278.

[269:3] See Gibbon's Rome, vol. i. pp. 539-541.

[270:1] Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 102. See also, Bell's
Pantheon, vol. i. p. 16.

[270:2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one of the most accurate historians
of antiquity, says: "In the war with the Latins, Castor and Pollux
appeared visibly on white horses, and fought on the side of the Romans,
who by their assistance gained a complete victory. As a perpetual
memorial of it, a temple was erected and a yearly festival instituted in
honor of these deities." (Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 323, and
Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 103.)

[271:1] See Prefatory Discourse to vol. iii. Middleton's Works, p. 54.

[271:2] See Origen: Contra Celsus, bk. 1, ch. lxviii.

[272:1] See Origen: Contra Celsus, bk. 1, ch. ix.

[272:2] Ibid. bk. iii. ch. xliv.

[272:3] Ibid.

[272:4] Ibid. bk. 1, ch. lxviii.

[272:5] Ibid.

[272:6] Ibid.

[272:7] Dial. Cum. Typho. ch. lxix.

[272:8] See Isis Unveiled, vol. ii. p. 148.

[272:9] See Baring-Gould's Lost and Hostile Gospels. A knowledge of
magic had spread