[Greek: Emoi de dokousi pleionas lusai aporias hoi to ton daimonon genos en mesoi thentes theon kai anthropon kai tropon tina ten koinonian hemon sunagon eis tauto kai sunapton exeurontes; eite magon ton peri Zoroastren ho logos outos esti, eite Thraikios].... 41. Cf. Minucius Felix, 26, Sec. 11: "Hostanes daemonas prodidit terrenos vagos humanitatis inimicos." The pagan idea, that the air was peopled with evil spirits against whom man had to struggle perpetually, persisted among the Christians; cf. Ephes., ii. 2, vi. 12, see also Prudentius, _Hamartigenia_, 514 ff. 42. Cf. Minucius Felix, _loc. cit._: "Magi non solum sciunt daemonas, sed quidquid miraculi ludunt, per daemonas faciunt," etc. Cf. Aug., _Civ. Dei_, X, 9 and _infra_, ch. VII, n. 76. 43. _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, pp. 139 ff. 44. Theod. Mopsuest. ap. Photius, _Bibl._ 81. Cf. _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, p. 8. {269} 45. Cf. Bousset, _Die Religion des Judentums im neutest. Zeitalter_, 1903, pp. 483 ff. 46. Julian, _Caesares_, p. 336 C. The term [Greek: entolai] is the one also used in the Greek Church for the commandments of the Lord. 47. Cf. _supra_, p. 36. 48. The remark is from Darmesteter, _Zend-Avesta_, II, p. 441. 49. Cf. Reinach, _op. cit._, [260], pp. 230 ff. 50. Farnell, _Evolution of Religion_, p. 127. 51. Mithra is _sanctus_ (_Mon. myst. Mithra_, II, p. 533), like the Syrian gods; cf. _supra_, ch. V, n. 47. 52. _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, pp. 309 ff. The eschatology of orthodox Mazdaism has been expounded recently by Soederblom, _La vie future d'apres le mazdeisme_, Paris, 1901. 53. Cf. _supra_, ch. IV, p. 100, ch. V, p. 126.