"The object of his mission on earth was to instruct those who were straying from the right path, _expiate the sins of mortals by his own sufferings_, and produce for them a happy entrance into another existence by obedience to his precepts and prayers in his name. They always speak of him as one with God from all eternity. His most common title is '_The Saviour of the World_.'" (Ibid. vol. i. p. 247.) [190:1] Quoted in Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 211. [190:2] Ibid. [190:3] See Renouf: Religions of Ancient Egypt, p. 178. [190:4] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 155. [190:5] Murray: Manual of Mythology, p. 848. [190:6] In Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 171. Quoted in Knight's Art and Mythology, p. 71. [190:7] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 185. [190:8] See Mysteries of Adoni, p. 88. [190:9] See Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. xxii. note. [191:1] Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 255. [191:2] Vol. ii. [191:3] Lactant. Inst., div. iv. chap. xiii. In Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 544. [191:4] See chapter xxxix. this work. [191:5] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 114, and Taylor's Diegesis, p. 163. [191:6] See the chapter on "The Resurrection of Jesus." [192:1] Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Prometheus." [192:2] "_Prometheus_ has been a favorite subject with the poets. He is represented as the friend of mankind, who interposed in their behalf when Jove was incensed against them." (Bulfinch: The Age of Fable, p. 32.) "In the mythos relating to Prometheus, he always appears as the friend of the human race, suffering in its behalf the most fearful tortures." (John Fiske: Myths and Myth-makers, pp. 64, 65.) "Prometheus was _nailed_ to the rocks on Mount Caucasus, _with arms extended_." (Alexander Murray: Manual of Mythology, p. 82.) "Prometheus is said to have been _nailed up with arms extended_, near the Caspian Straits, on Mount Caucasus. The history of Prometheus on the Cathedral at Bordeaux (France) here receives its explanation." (Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 113.) [192:3] See Æschylus' "Prometheus Chained." Translated by the Rev. R. Potter: Harper & Bros., N. Y. [192:4] Ibid. p. 82. [193:1] Petræus was an interchangeable synonym of the name Oceanus. [193:2] "Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying: Be it far from thee, Lord; this shall not be unto thee." (Matt. xvi. 22.) [193:3] "And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him." (Luke, xxiii. 27.) [193:4] See Taylor's Diegesis, pp. 193, 194, or Potter's Æschylus. [193:5] "They say that the god (Bacchus), the offspring of Zeus and Demeter, was torn to pieces." (Diodorus Siculus, in Knight, p. 156, _note_.) [193:6] See Knight: Anct. Art and Mythology, p. 98, _note_. Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, 258. Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 102. [193:7] Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. xxii. _note_. [193:8] Ibid. [193:9] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 169.