[226:1] Even the name of "EASTER" is derived from the heathen goddess, _Ostrt_, of the Saxons, and the _Eostre_ of the Germans. "Many of the popular observances connected with Easter are clearly of _Pagan origin_. The goddess Ostara or Eastre seems to have been the personification of the morning or East, and also of the opening year or Spring. . . . With her usual policy, the church endeavored to give a Christian significance to such of the rites as could not be rooted out; and in this case the conversion was practically easy." (Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Easter.") [226:2] Quoted in Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 244. [226:3] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 340. [227:1] Eccl. Hist., lib. 6, c. viii. [227:2] Anacalypsis, ii. 59. [228:1] See Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 24. [228:2] See Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Easter." [228:3] Ibid. [228:4] Matthew, xxviii. 17. [228:5] See xii. 40; xvi. 21; Mark, ix. 31; xiv. 23; John, ii. 10. [229:1] "And let not any one among you say, that _this very flesh_ is not judged, neither raised up. Consider, in what were ye saved? in what did ye look up, if not whilst ye were in this flesh? We must, therefore, keep our flesh as the temple of God. For in like manner as ye were called in the flesh, _ye shall also come to judgment_ in the flesh. Our one Lord Jesus Christ, who has saved us, being first a spirit, was made flesh, and so called us: _even so we also in this flesh, shall receive the reward_ (_of heaven_)." (II. Corinthians, ch. iv. _Apoc._ See also the Christian Creed: "I believe in the resurrection of the _body_.") [229:2] Luke, xxiv. 37. [229:3] Luke, xxiv. 42, 43. [229:4] John, xxi. 12, 13. [230:1] John, xx. 20. [230:2] John, xx. 25. [230:3] John, xx. 27. [230:4] See, for a further account of the resurrection, Reber's Christ of Paul; Scott's English Life of Jesus; and Greg's Creed of Christendom. [230:5] See the Chapter xxxviii. [231:1] Gibbon's Rome, vol. i. p. 541. [231:2] Nicodemus, Apoc. ch. xii. [232:1] Baccalaureate Sermon, June 26th, 1881. [232:2] Greg: The Creed of Christendom, p. 284. [232:3] See Jameson's Hist. of Our Lord in Art, vol. ii., and Lundy's Monumental Christianity. CHAPTER XXIV. THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, AND THE MILLENNIUM. The second coming of Christ Jesus is clearly taught in the canonical, as well as in the apocryphal, books of the New Testament. Paul teaches, or _is made to teach it_,[233:1] in the following words: