Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions by T. W. Doane

[410:2] See Eusebius: Eccl. Hist., lib. 2, ch. v. [410:3] "Cum animadvertisset Gregorius quod ob corporeas delectationes et voluptates, simplex et imperitum vulgus in simulacrorum cultus errore permaneret--permisit eis, ut in memoriam et recordationem sanctorum martyrum sese oblectarent, et in lætitiam effunderentur, quod successu temporis aliquando futurum esset, ut sua sponte, ad honestiorem et accuratiorem vitæ rationem, transirent." (Mosheim, vol. i. cent. 2, p. 202.) [410:4] "Non imperio ad fidem adducto, sed et imperii pompa ecclesiam inficiente. Non ethnicis ad Christum conversis, sed et Christi religione ad Ethnicæ formam depravata." (Orat. Academ. De Variis Christ. Rel. fatis.) [411:1] Gibbon's Rome, vol. iii. p. 163. [411:2] Quoted by Draper: Science and Religion, p. 48. [411:3] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 329. [411:4] Justin: Apol. 1, ch. lix. [411:5] Octavius, ch. xi. [411:6] See Origen: Contra Celsus. [412:1] Apol. 1, ch. xx, xii, xxii. [412:2] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 323. [412:3] See Ibid. p. 324. [412:4] On the Flesh of Christ, ch. v. [413:1] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 328. [413:2] Matt. xix. 12. [413:3] Deut. xxiii. 1. [413:4] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 339. [413:5] See Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 236; Mosheim, vol. i. cent. 2, pt. 2, ch. 4. [413:6] Eccl. Hist. vol. 1. p. 199. [414:1] Prolegomena to Ancient History, pp. 416, 417. [415:1] Tindal: Christianity as Old as the Creation. [415:2] Manu's works were written during the _sixth_ century B. C. (see Williams' Indian Wisdom, p. 215), and the Maha-bharata about the same time.