[Footnote 24: Gen. xv. 17; Ex. iii. 2; xix. 16-18; xxiv. 17; xl. 38; Levit. x. 2; Numb. xvi. 35; Deut. iv. 15, 24; v. 24, 25.] [Footnote 25: 1 Kings, vii. 25, 29.] [Footnote 26: Ex. xxvii. 2.] [Footnote 27: Comp. Ezek. i. 10; x. 14.] [Footnote 28: 1 Kings, xviii. 23.] [Footnote 29: 1 Kings, xi. 5; 2 Kings, xvi. 3; xxi. 3; xxiii. 4, _et seq_; 2 Chron. xxxiii. 3; Ezek. xvi. 20, 21; Jer. xix. 5.] [Footnote 30: Amos. v. 25, 26.] [Footnote 31: Judges, xi. 30-40.] [Footnote 32: Ex. xxxii. 27-29; Numb. xxv. 4.] [Footnote 33: 2 Sam. xxi. 1-14.] [Footnote 34: 1 Kings, iii. 2; xi. 7; 2 Kings, xii. 3; xiv. 4; xvii. 11; xviii. 4; xxiii. 5, 19; 2 Chron. xxi. 11.] [Footnote 35: 2 Chron. xxxiv. 3; Ezek. vi. 3; xx. 28.] [Footnote 36: 1 Kings, xii. 28, 33. Comp. Ex. xxxii. 4, 19.] [Footnote 37: Levit. xviii. 21; xx. 2; Deut. xii. 31.] [Footnote 38: Gen. xxiv, xxviii.] [Footnote 39: Gen. xiv. 18-20; xx. 3, 4.] [Footnote 40: Gen. xxxi. 19, 30, _et seq_; xxxv. 2-4; Joshua, xxiv. 2, 14.] [Footnote 41: Judges, xviii. 14, _et seq_; 1 Sam. xix. 13; 2 Kings, xviii. 4; Ezek. xx. 7.] [Footnote 42: Ex. iii. 13, _et seq_; vi. 2.] [Footnote 43: Ex. xx. 2, 3.] [Footnote 44: Ex. viii. 10; xv. 11; xviii. 11; xx. 3.] [Footnote 45: Deut vi. 4; iv. 28, 35; xxxii. 39; Isaiah, xliv. 6, 8; xlv. 5, 6.] [Footnote 46: Amos, vii. 14.] [Footnote 47: Isa. i. 11-18; Jer. vii. 21-23.] [Footnote 48: Dutch, _zelfstandigheid_, literally, self-existence; without an equivalent, as far as I know, in vernacular English.--Tr.] [Footnote 49: _Zelfstandigheid_, again, expressing objective existence, reality, independent of subjective thought or feeling.--Tr.] [Footnote 50: Jer. xxxi. 31, _et seq_; Isa. ii. 2-4; Amos, ix. 12; Isa. xxv. 6; lii. 15; lvi. 6, 7; lxvi. 23; Zech. viii. 23; xiv. 9, 16.] [Footnote 51: Isa. liii.] [Footnote 52: Job i, ii.--Tr.] [Footnote 53: The most original sources of the Christian religion are the Synoptic Gospels, in which, however, criticism must distinguish between the older and later portions. The fourth Gospel is marked by a more profound speculation upon the person and the work of Christ, by which the Christian mind freed itself entirely from the Jewish forms in which Jesus, as a popular teacher in Israel, had set forth his doctrine.]