T. W. Rhys Davids, in the Introduction to his translation of the Keto Khila Sutta (Barrenness and Bondage), _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xi. p. 222, says that in reading it he was irresistibly reminded of 2 Peter i. 5-9. The barrenness referred to in the Sutta is lack of successful effort to be free from “the Ten Fetters” which bind man to existence, chief of which is hankering after immortality in any form, or without form. How contrasted is this to St. Peter’s thought! “Give diligence to provide in your faith earnestness,” that it may be an overcoming faith; but as faith without knowledge is superstition, and earnestness misdirected will do harm, provide in earnestness “knowledge”; and as knowledge ungoverned will degenerate into conceit, provide in it “temperance”; but temperance must be inspired with “patience,” bent on God’s glory, not personal gain; “godliness” thus attained, “brotherly kindness” will manifest itself, and then “charity” toward every creature—that is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the _summum bonum_, the knowledge in which we are neither to be barren nor unfruitful. No more forcible illustration of the utter contradiction between the two religions could be found than this verbal analogy of “barrenness and bondage.” Footnote 230: Compare St. Paul, Phil. iv. 8: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honourable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are gracious; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.” Footnote 231: Dhamma-Kakka-ppavattana Sutta, 6, note; _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xi. p. 148. Footnote 232: Dhammapada, 239; _ibid._ vol. x. p. 1. Footnote 233: Akankheya Sutta; _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xi. p. 210. Footnote 234: If the legends are to be followed, he believed in the miraculous power which resulted from it (see Mahâparanibhâna Sutta, i. 33, and iii. 22; also Mahavagga, i. 20. 24), but he condemned the exercise of that power for self-glorification or for paltry gain (Kullavagga, v. 8. 2; also vii. 1, 2, 3; _Sacred Books of the East_, vols. xi. xii. xiii.). Footnote 235: See Gough, _Philosophy of the Upanishads_, pp. 267, 268. Footnote 236: Oldenberg, _Buddha, etc._, p. 314. Footnote 237: Sir Monier Williams, _Buddhism_, p. 35. Footnote 238: Saint-Hilaire, _Le Bouddha, etc._, p. 162. Footnote 239: Mr. Alabaster, _Wheel of the Law_, preface, p. xvi. Footnote 240: Eitel, _Lectures on Buddhism_, pp. 59-70; Saint-Hilaire, _Le Bouddha_, p. 156. Footnote 241: Jackson’s Bampton Lectures, _The Doctrine of Retribution_, p. 284; Caird’s _Philosophy of Religion_, Croall Lectures, pp. 259 _seq._ Footnote 242: Saint-Hilaire, _Le Bouddha_, p. xxiii; Hardy’s _Eastern Monachism_, p. 312. Footnote 243: