contagious has been expressly stated by Christian writers. Novatian says that "the one is defiled by the sin of the other, and the idolatry of the transgressor passes over to him who does not transgress."[192] [Footnote 174: Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, ii. 435.] [Footnote 175: _Atharva-Veda_, v. 30. 4; x. 3. 8; vii. 64. i. _sq._ _Cf._ Oldenberg, _Religion des Veda_, p. 290.] [Footnote 176: _Rig-Veda_, x. 36. 9; x. 37. 12.] [Footnote 177: _Ibid._ x. 164. 3. _Atharva-Veda_, vii. 64. 2. _Cf._ Kaegi, _Rig-Veda_, p. 157; Oldenberg, _op. cit._ pp. 291-298, 319 _sqq._] [Footnote 178: _Cf._ Hopkins, _Religions of India_ pp. 65 n. 1, 66.] [Footnote 179: _Atharva-Veda_, vi. 113. 1 _sqq._] [Footnote 180: _Rig-Veda_, i. 23. 22. Sin is also looked upon as a galling chain from the captivity of which release is besought (_ibid._ i. 24. 9, 13 _sq._; ii. 27. 16; ii. 28. 5; v. 85. 8; vi. 74. 3; &c.).] [Footnote 181: Hopkins, _op. cit._ p. 196.] [Footnote 182: Monier Williams, _Br[=a]hmanism and Hind[=u]uism_, p. 347.] [Footnote 183: _Ibid._ p. 375.] [Footnote 184: Barth, _Religions of India_, p. 264. _Laws of Manu_, iii. 206; v. 105, 121, 124; xi. 110, 203, 213.] [Footnote 185: Stengel, _Die griechischen Kultusaltertümer_, p. 138 _sqq._] [Footnote 186: Plutarch, _De sera numinis vindicta_, 14.] [Footnote 187: _Leviticus_, xvi.] [Footnote 188: _Numbers_, viii. 7; xix. 4-9, 13 _sqq._; xxxi. 23. _Leviticus_, xvi. 14 _sqq._] [Footnote 189: _Psalms_, li. 2.] [Footnote 190: Harnack, _op. cit._ ii. 140 _sqq._] [Footnote 191: _Catechism of the Council of Trent_, ii. 2. 10, p. 162.] [Footnote 192: Quoted by Harnack, _op. cit._ ii. 119.]