FootNotes

2. Michaelis, Introduction to the New Testament, ed. Dr. Herbert Marsh (London, 1828), vol. 2, p. 368.

3. Von Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History (London, 1810), vol. 1, p. 109.

4. Rev. Robert Taylor, The Diegesis (Boston, 1873), p. 48.

5. Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers (London, 1719), p. 98.

6. Conyers Middleton, D.D., Letters from Rome (London, 1752), vol. 1, p. 51.

7. C. F. Volney, The Ruins (Boston, 1872), p. 177.

8. Middleton, vol. 1, p. 59.

9. Drs. H. Oort, I. Hooykaas, and A. Kuneh, The Bible for Learners, trans. Philip A. Wieksteed (Boston, 1878), vol. 3, p. 24.

10. Taylor, Diegesis, p. 66.

11. Ibid., p. 114.

12. T. W. Doane, Bible Myths (New York, 1882), p. 231.

13. Ibid.

14. Taylor, Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion (Boston, 1876), p. 52.

15. "Time Chart of Bible History" (New York/Glasgow/Toronto:William Collins and Sons and Co., 1971), p. 5.

16. John P. Lundy, Monumental Christianity (New York, 1876), pp. 151-152.

17. Ibid., pp. 151-152.

18. Doane, p. 286.

19. Williams, Indian Wisdom, or Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical Doctrines of the Hindoos (London, 1875), p. iv.

20. Cox, The Myths of the Aryan Nations (London, 1870), vol. 2, p. 138.

21. Maurice, Hindostan, vol. 2, p. 316; Luke 1:57.

22. H. H. Wilson, trans., The Vishnu Purana, A System of Hindoo Mythology and Tradition (London, 1840), book 5, chap. 3; Luke 2:1-7.

23. Cox, vol. 2, p. 107.

24. Godfred Higgins, Anacalypsis: An Enquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions (London, 1836), vol. 2, pp. 98-99.

25. Farrar, The Life of Christ (New York, 1876), p. 38.

26. Mons Dupuis, trans., The Origin of Alt Religious Worship (New Orleans, 1872), p. 134.

27. Swain, vol. 1, p. 259.

28. Thomas Maurice, History of Hindostan (London, 1798), vol. 2, p. 319; Matthew 8:2-4.

29. Maria L. Child, The Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages (New York, 1855), vol. 1, p. 68.

30. Maurice, Hindostan, vol. 2, p. 320.

31. Maurice, Indian Antiquities (London, 1794), vol. 3, p. 46; Swain, vol. 1, p. 273; John 13:5.

32. Charles Wilkes, trans., The Bhagavat Gita, or Dialogues of Crishna and Arjoon, in Eighteen Lectures with Notes (London, 1785), p. 51; John 13:23.

33. Williams, Hinduism (London, 1877), p. 211.

34. Ibid., p. 213.

35. Ibid. p. 213.

36. Ibid., p. 213.

37. Higgins., p. 131; Acts 1:9.

38. Swain, vol. 1, p. 237; I Peter 3:19.

39. Wilson, p. 492.

40. Higgins, vol. 1, p. 144.

41. Lundy, p. 128.

42. Inman, Ancient Faiths and Modern (London, 1876), vol. 1, p. 411.

43. Child, vol. 1, p. 71.

44. Dupuis, p. 240; Matthew 28:6.

45. Child, voL 1, p. 75; Williams, Hinduism, p. 108.

46. Rhys Davids, Buddhism: Being a Sketch of the Life and Teachings of Gautama, the Buddha (London, 1894), p. 10.

47. Beal, The Romantic Legends of Sakya Buddha from the Chinese Sanskrit (London, 1875), p. vi

48. Ibid., pp. viii-ix.

49. De Bunsen, The Angel Messiah of Buddhists, Essenes and Christians (London, 1880), p. 50.

50. Muller, Introduction to the Science of Religion (London, 1873), p. 243.

51. Latourette, A History of Christianity (New York, 1975), p. 274.

52. Huc, Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet (London, 1857), p. 327.

53. Doane, p. 302.

54. De Bunsen, p. 45; Matthew 3:16.

55. De Bunsen, p. 37; Luke 2:41-48.

56. Arthur Lillie, Buddha and Early Buddhism (London, 1881), p. 100; Matthew 4:2.

57. Hans Joachim Schoeps, An Intelligent Person's Guide to the Religions of Mankind (London, 1967), p. 167; Matthew 21:18-19.

58. Encyclopedia Americana (New York: Rand McNally and Co., 1963), vol. 4, p. 672.

59. Moncure D. Conway, The Sacred Anthology (London, 1874), p. 173.

60. De Bunsen, p. 38.

61. Ibid.

62. Muller, Science, p. 27; Matthew 16:1.

63. Beal, p. x; Matthew 4:17.

64. Muller, Science, p. 140.

65. Ibid., p. 245.

66. Ibid., p. 249.

67. Ibid., p. 28.

68. R. Spence Hardy, The Legends and Theories of the Buddhists Compared with History and Science (London, 1866), p. 181.

69. Prof. Max Muller, ed., Sacred Books of the East (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879-1910), vol. 21, p. 129f.

70. James Hastings, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (New York: Edinburgh T. & T. Clark, 1918), vol. 6, p. 883; Matthew 26:20.

71. Hardy, Monarchism, p. 6; Luke 14:33.

72. Hastings, vol. 6, p. 883.

73. Lillie, p. 139.

74. Muller, Science, p. 243.

75. Encyclopedia Britannica (New York: William and Helen Benton, 1974), vol. 2, p. 373.

76. Hardy, Legends, p. 134.

77. Hastings, vol. 6, p. 883.

78. Hardy, Eastern Monachism (London, 1860), p. 230.

79. De Bunsen, p. 49.

80. Thomas Thornton, A History of China from the Earliest Records to the Treaty with Great Britain in 1842 (London, 1844), vol. 1, p. 341.

81. Child, vol. 1, p. 229, Acts 3:6-8.

82. Maurice, Hindostan, vol. 2, p. 310.

83. Doane, p. 291.

84. Maurice, Hindostan, vol. 2, p. 310; Matthew 1:18.

85. Higgins, vol. 1, p. 157.

86. Ibid., pp. 129-130.

87. Maurice, Hindostan, vol. 2, pp. 317, 336; de Bunsen, pp. 22-23, 33; Matthew 2:2.

88. Ibid., p. 329.

89. Beal, p. 56.

90. Samuel Johnson, Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion (India) (Boston, 1872), p. 500; Inman, vol. 2, p. 353.

91. De Bunsen, p. 36; Amberly Viscount, An Analysis of Religious Belief (New York, 1879), p. 231.

92. Maurice, Hindostan, vol. 2, p. 319; Muller, Science, p. 27; Matthew 4:23.

93. Williams, Hinduism, p. 215.

94. De Bunsen, p. 45; Beal, p. 177.

95. Maurice, Indian Antiquities, vol. 4, p. 372; John Francis Davis, The Chinese (New York, 1836), vol. 2, p. 104; Matthew 28:19.

96. Williams, Hinduism, p. 214.

97. Prof. Max Muller, History of Sanskrit Literature (London, 1872), p. 80.

98. Wilkes, p. 51.

99. Ibid., p. 52.

100. De Bunsen, p. 33.

101. Johnson, p. 504; Dupuis, p. 366; II Timothy 4:1.

102. Doane, p. 285.

103. Child, vol. 1, p. 72.

104. Ibid., p. 247.

105. Johnson, p. 604.

106. De Bunsen, p. 18.

107. Ibid.

108. Ibid.