[50] Cf. _Geschichte des Jüdischen Volkes_, Schürer, ii. 819, 820. [51] Cf. _The Semites_, W. Robertson Smith, iii. v. [52] Cf. _The Semites_, W. Robertson Smith, pp. 197, etc. [53] _Tent Work_, pp. 68, 204. [54] Cf. _The Semites_, Robertson Smith, pp. 16, 17. [55] _East of the Jordan_, Merrill, p. 193. [56] The early Christian belief that the gods of paganism were demons has died hard, if indeed it be quite dead. The “weird horsemen” who in windy nights are to be heard galloping down lonely valleys lead us back to that interesting custom by which a horse was actually provided in some of the temples of the Syrian Herakles, to that the god might ride forth at night. [57] _Haifa_, Laurence Oliphant, p. 300. [58] Job iv. 14-16. [59] _The Cradle of Christianity_, D. M. Ross, p. 60. [60] See p. 36. [61] Professor G. A. Smith, in his chapter on “The Walls of Jerusalem,” has given the results of an exhaustive study of the most recent research on this subject, and his conclusion is that “on our present data it is hopeless to decide between the rival and contradictory arguments.”--_Jerusalem_, vol. i. p. 249. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Holy Land, by John Kelman