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Bible Studies: Essays on Phallic Worship and Other Curious Rites and Customs

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In like manner Maimonides, the great Jewish commentator, said that innocent women would give all they had to escape it, and reckoned death preferable (Moreh Nevochim, pt. iii., ch. xlix.)

37

Journal, May 25, 1768, p. 308? vol. iii., Works, 1856. The earlier volumes of the Methodist Magazine abound with tales of diabolical possession.

38

Note on Butler's Hudibras, part ii., canto 8, line 143.

39

See The Darker Superstitions of Scotland, by Sir John Graham Dalyell, chap. xviii. Glasgow, 1835.

40

History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe, vol. i., p. 144.

41

Colloquia de Fascinationibus.

42

Among my Books, p. 128. Macmillan, 1870.

43

The seventeenth verse stupidly reads, "The Lord hath done to him as he spake by me." The LXX and Vulgate more sensibly reads to thee.

44

To "eat the fat" seems, as in Neh. viii. 10, to have been a biblical expression for good living.

45

Religion of the Semites, p. 207.

46

Why is the ass only mentioned besides man? One cannot but suspect that his introduction is an interpolation by the reformed Jews, who had outgrown the custom of human sacrifice, betrayed by the phrase "thou shalt break his neck."

47

Nineteenth Century, April, 1886.

48

Observe that Elohim, the old gods, claim the sacrifice and Jahveh, the new Lord, prevents it.

49

It may help us to understand how the sacrifice of an animal may atone for human life, if we notice how in South Africa a Zulu will redeem a lost child from the finder by a bullock.

50

January, 1884.

51

The Golden Bough, vol. i., pp. 24, 25.

52

See too Isaiah lvi. 11-12; Jer. xxvii. 10-15, xxix. 8-9; Micah iii 5-7.

53

The Patriarchal Theory, p. 43; 1885.

54

Ibid, p. 45.

55

See Rimini's History of the Moravians and Southey's Life of Wesley vol. i. pp. 188, 387.

56

Revised Version. The Authorised Version changes the whole purpose of the piece by reading "that ye stir not up nor awaken my love till he please."

57

Natural Genesis, ii., 219.

58

Trans, by Dr. I. Kalisch, pp. 27 and 81.

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