[108:10] The Bible for Learners, vol. i. pp. 17, 26; vol. ii. pp. 102, 299, 300. Bunsen: Keys of St. Peter, p. 110. Müller: The Science of Religion, p. 285. _Moloch_ was a god of the Ammonites, also worshiped among the Israelites. Solomon built a temple to him, on the Mount of Olives, _and human sacrifices were offered to him_. (Bell's Pantheon, vol. ii. pp. 84, 85.) [108:11] The Bible for Learners, vol. i. p. 153; vol. ii. pp. 71, 83, 125. Smith's Bible Dictionary art. "Chemosh." [108:12] The Bible for Learners, vol. i. pp. 26, 117, 148, 319, 320; vol. ii. pp. 16, 17, 299, 300. Dunlap's Spirit Hist., pp. 108, 222. Inman: Ancient Faiths, vol. ii. pp. 100, 101. Müller: Science of Religion, p. 261. Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. 113, 114; vol. ii. 84, 85. [108:13] See note 9 above. [108:14] See Bunsen: Keys of St. Peter, 291. [108:15] Ibid. p. 27. [108:16] Goldziher: Hebrew Mythology, p. 319 [109:1] The _Talmud_ of Jerusalem expressly states that the names of the angels and the months, such as Gabriel, Michael, Yar, Nisan, &c., came from Babylon with the Jews. (Goldziher, p. 319.) "There is no trace of the doctrine of Angels in the Hebrew Scriptures composed or written before the exile." (Bunsen: The Angel Messiah, p. 285) "The Jews adopted, during the Captivity, the idea of angels, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Gabriel," &c. (Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 54.) See, for further information on this subject, Dr. Knappert's "Religion of Israel," or Prof. Kuenen's "Religion of Israel." PART II. THE NEW TESTAMENT. CHAPTER XII. THE MIRACULOUS BIRTH OF CHRIST JESUS. According to the dogma of the deity of Jesus, he who is said to have lived on earth some eighteen centuries ago, as _Jesus of Nazareth_, is second of the three persons in the Trinity, the SON, God as absolutely as the Father and the Holy Spirit, except as eternally deriving his existence from the Father. What, however, especially characterizes the Son, and distinguishes him from the two other persons united with him in the unity of the Deity, is this, that the Son, at a given moment of time, became incarnate, and that, without losing anything of his divine nature, he thus became possessed of a complete human nature; so that he is at the same time, without injury to the unity of his person, "_truly man and truly God_." The story of the miraculous birth of Jesus is told by the _Matthew_ narrator as follows:[111:1]