In the name of _Boodh_ or _Buddha_, an avatar of Vishnu, the principal God worshipped in the Transalpine, or Ultra-Gangetic regions and islands of Asia, we again trace the early idea of a Saviour of celestial origin. This name is evidently derived from the Hebrew ‏פדע‎ or ‏פדה‎, _Phudah_, _to deliver or redeem_, by interchange of the labials ‏ב‎ and ‏פ‎; and from the same roots are derived a variety of words, signifying either Redemption, or the Price of Redemption, and reminding us delightfully of Him, who, by his own blood entered _once for all_ into the holy place, having obtained eternal Redemption for us; Heb. ix. 12. In the name of _Fohi_, the chief god, worshipped in China from the earliest times, we discover also, by its Hebrew origin from ‏פחה‎, _Phohe_, _Prince_ or _Governor_, the foreshadowing of Him whom God sent to be a _light_ to lighten the Gentiles, and the _glory_ of his people Israel; Luke ii. 32. The Druids of ancient Europe were worshippers of the _Sun_ and _Fire_, and the name of their god was _Hesus_, most probably derived from the Hebrew ‏השש‎, _Hesus_, _burns up_ or _consumes_, emblematic of the physical objects of their devotion, but still prefiguring the advent of Him whose _fan_ is in his hand, who will thoroughly _purge_ his floor, and _burn up_ the chaff with unquenchable fire; Matt. iii. 12; and Isa. v. 24. Among the Peruvians and the Mexicans were found similar traces of _Sun_ and _Fire_ worship, accompanied with the apparatus of the _Incas_ or _Children of the Sun_, and the _Vestal_ or _Solar_ virgins, as in ancient Rome. Nor should we omit that the _Parsees_, the most learned sect among the Hindoos, are worshippers of the _Sun_, which is called in their language _Surya_, evidently of a similar origin with the Greek Σειρ and Σειριος; moreover, in their fabulous histories of the “War between the Gods and the Giants,” the spirits, who were the worshippers or children of _Light_ or the _Sun_, are called _Suras_, and the demons of darkness, _Asuras_, _A_ being evidently privative in Sanscrit as in Greek. In fine, the names of the gods which were worshipped among the Greeks and the Romans, as every classical reader knows, carry abundant evidence of their having been borrowed from the earlier systems of idolatry already described. Dr. Russell remarks, that “in the 1st book of the Saturnalia, from the 17th to the 23rd chapters inclusive, Macrobius establishes, from the writings of the philosophers, as well as of the poets, that all the gods of Assyria, Egypt, and Greece, were mere personifications of the _Solar_ influence; and, moreover, that all their names, however varied, might be resolved into some attribute of the _Sun_.” He further states, that all the nations of the East acknowledged originally but one deity, the _Sun_, and he ingeniously accounts for the rise of _Hero-worship_ and _Polytheism_; he also observes that, however the titles of the gods may be separated and distinguished from each