[237:4] See Ibid. p. 279. The Angel-Messiah, p. 287, and chap. xiii. this work. [237:5] Pp. 122, 123. [237:6] "And I saw the _dead_, small and great, stand before God." (Rev. xx. 12.) [237:7] "And the _sea_ gave up the dead which were in it." (Rev. xx. 13.) [237:8] "And ye shall hear of wars, and rumors of wars." "Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places." (Matt. xxiv. 6, 7.) [238:1] "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats." (Matt. xxv. 32, 33.) [238:2] "He descended into hell, the third day he rose (again) from the dead." (Apostles' Creed.) [238:3] Purgatory--a place in which souls are supposed by the papists to be purged by fire from carnal impurities, before they are received into heaven. [238:4] "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." (Rev. xx. 2.) [238:5] "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire." (Rev. xx. 14.) [238:6] "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first earth, and the first heaven were passed away." (Rev. xxi. 1.) [238:7] "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." (Rev. xxi. 1.) [238:8] "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, 'Alleluia; salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord, our God.'" (Rev. xix. 1.) "For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." (Rev. xix. 6.) [238:9] Dupuis: Orig. Relig. Belief. [238:10] Baring-Gould: Orig. Relig. Belief, vol. i. p. 407. [239:1] Baring-Gould: Orig. Relig. Belief, vol. i. p. 407. [239:2] See Mallet's Northern Antiquities. [239:3] Humboldt: Amer. Res., vol. i. p. 91. [239:4] Prescott: Con. of Mexico, vol. i. p. 60. [239:5] Fergusson: Tree and Serpent Worship, p. 87. Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 187. [239:6] Acosta: Hist. Indies, vol. ii. p. 513. [240:1] Over all the Higher Asia there seems to have been diffused an immemorial tradition relative to a second grand convulsion of nature, and the final dissolution of the earth by the terrible agency of FIRE, as the first is said to have been by that of WATER. It was taught by the Hindoos, the Egyptians, Plato, Pythagoras, Zoroaster, the Stoics, and others, and was afterwards adopted by the Christians. (II. Peter, iii. 9. Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. pp. 498-500.) [240:2] "And God made, in six days, the works of his hands, . . . the meaning of it is this; that in _six thousand years_ the Lord will bring all things to an end." (Barnabas. _Apoc._ c. xiii.)