[3.26] Matt. xxviii. 20. [3.27] John iii. 13; vi. 62; xvi. 7; xx. 77; Ephes. iv. 10; I. Peter iii. 22. Neither Matthew nor John gives the recital of the Ascension. Paul (I. Cor. xv. 7-8) excludes even the very idea. [3.28] Mark xvi. 19; Luke xxiv. 50-52. _Acts_ 2-12. _Apol._ i. 50. _Ascension of Isaiah_, Ethiopic version, xi. 22; Latin version (Venice, 1522), sub fin. [3.29] Compare the account of the Transfiguration. [3.30] Jos. _Antiq._ iv., viii. 58. [3.31] II. Kings, ii. 11, et seq. [3.32] Luke, last chapter of the Gospel, and the first chapter of the _Acts_. [3.33] Luke xxiii. 52. CHAPTER IV. [4.1] Matt, xviii. 20. [4.2] _Acts_ i. 15. The greater part of these "five hundred brethren" doubtless remained in Galilee. That which is told in _Acts_ ii. 41, is surely an exaggeration, or at least an anticipation. [4.3] Luke xxiv. 53; _Acts_ ii. 46; compare Luke ii. 37; Hegesippus in Eusebius, _Hist. Eccles._ ii. 23. [4.4] Deuteron. x. 18; I. Tim. vi. 8. [4.5] Read the _Wars of the Jews_ of Josephus. [4.6] John xx. 22. [4.7] I. Kings xix. 11-12. [4.8] This work appears to have been written at the commencement of the second century of our era. [4.9] _The Ascension of Isaiah_, vi. 6, et seq. (Ethiopic version.) [4.10] Matt. iii. 11; Mark i. 8; Luke iii. 16; Acts i. 5; xi. 16; xix. 14; I. John 6, et seq. [4.11] Compare Misson, _The Sacred Theatre of Cevennes_ (London, 1707), p. 103. [4.12] _Revue des Deux Mondes_, Sept. 1853, p. 96, et seq. [4.13] Jules Remy, _Journey to the Mormon Territory_ (Paris, 1860), Books II. and III.; for example, Vol. I., p. 259-260; Vol. II. 470, et seq. [4.14] Astié, _The Religious Revival of the United States_ (Lausanne, 1859). [4.15] Acts ii. 1-3; Justin _Apol._ i. 50. [4.16] The expression "tongue of fire" means in Hebrew, simply, a flame (Isaiah v. 24). Compare Virgil's Æneid II. 682, 84. [4.17] Jamblicus (De Myst., sec. iii. cap. 6) exposes all this theory of the luminous descents of the Spirit. [4.18] Compare Talmud of Babylon, Chagiga, 14 b.; Midraschim, _Schir hasschirin Rabba_, fol. 40 b.; _Ruth Rabba_, fol. 42 a.; _Koheleth Rabba_, 87 a. [4.19] Matt. iii. 11; Luke iii. 16. [4.20] Exodus iv. 10; compare Jeremiah i. 6. [4.21] Isaiah vi. 5, et seq. Compare Jeremiah i. 9. [4.22] Luke xi. 12; John xiv. 26. [4.23] _Acts_ ii. 5, et seq. This is the most probable sense of the narrative, although it may mean that each of the dialects was spoken separately by each of the preachers. [4.24] _Acts_ ii. 4. Compare I. Cor. xii. 10, 28; xiv. 21, 22. For analogous imaginations, see Calmeil, _De la Folie_, i. p. 9, 262; ii. p. 357, et seq. [4.25] Talmud of Jerusalem, _Sota_, 21 b.