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.

[4.26] _Testimony of the Twelve Patriarchs_, Judah, 25.

[4.27] Acts ii. 4; x. 34, et seq.; vi. 15; xix. 6; I. Cor. xii, xiv.

[4.28] Mark xvi. 17. It must be remembered that in the ancient Hebrew, as in all the other ancient languages (see my _Origin of Language_, p. 177, et seq.), the words meaning "stranger," "strange language," were derived from the words which signified "to stammer," "to sob," an unknown dialect always appearing to a simple people, as it were, an indistinct stammering. See Isaiah xxviii. 11; xxxiii. 19; I. Cor. xiv. 21.

[4.29] I. Cor. viii. 1, remembering what precedes.

[4.30] I. Cor. xii. 28, 30; xiv. 2, et seq.

[4.31] I. Sam. xix. 23, et seq.

[4.32] Plutarch, _Of the Pythian Oracles_, 24. Compare the prediction of Cassandra in the Agamemnon of Æschylus.

[4.33] I. Cor. xii. 3; xvi. 22; Rom. viii. 15.

[4.34] Rom. viii. 23, 26, 27.

[4.35] I. Cor. vii. 1; xiv. 7, et seq.

[4.36] Rom. viii. 26, 27.

[4.37] I. Cor. xiv. 13, 14, 27, et seq.

[4.38] Jurieu, _Pastoral Letters_, 3d year, 3d letter; Misson, _The Sacred Theatre of Cevennes_, p. 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 31, 32, 36, 37, 65, 66, 68, 70, 94, 104, 109, 126, 140; Bruey's _History of Fanaticism_ (Montpelier, 1709). I., pages 145, et seq.; Fléchier, _Select Letters_ (Lyon, 1734), I., p. 353, et seq.

[4.39] Karl Hase, _History of the Church_, §§ 439 and 458, 5; the Protestant Journal, _Hope_, 1st April, 1847.

[4.40] M. Hohl, _Bruchstücke aus dem Leben und den Schriften_ Edward Irving's (Saint-Gall, 2839), p. 145, 149, et seq.; Karl Hase, _History of the Church_, §§ 458, 4. For the Mormons, see Remy, _Voyage_ I., p. 176-177, note; 259, 260; II., p. 55, et seq. For the Convulsionaries of St. Medard, see, above all, Carré de Montgeron, _The Truth about Miracles_, &c. (Paris, 1737, 1744), II., p. 18, 19, 49, 54, 55, 63, 64, 80, &c.

[4.41] _Acts_ ii. 13, 15.

[4.42] Mark iii 21, et seq.; John x. 20, et seq.; xii. 27, et seq.

[4.43] _Acts_ xix. 6; I. Cor. xiv. 3, et seq.

[4.44] _Acts_ x. 46; I. Cor. xiv. 15, 16, 26.

[4.45] Col. iii. 16; Eph. v. 49 (ψαλμόι ὔμνοι ῳ δαὶ πνευματικαι). See the former chapters of the Gospel of Luke. Compare in particular, Luke i. 46, with _Acts_ x. 46.

[4.46] I. Cor. xiv. 15; Col. iii. 16; Eph. v. 19.

[4.47] Jeremiah i. 6.

[4.48] Mark xvi. 17.

[4.49] I. Cor. xiv. 22. Πνεῦμα in the Epistles of S. Paul, often approaches the sense of δυνάμις. The spiritual phenomena are regarded as δυνάμεις, that is to say, miracles.

[4.50] Irenæus, _Adv. hæret._ V., vi. 1; Tertullian, _Adv. Marciom_, v. 8. _Constit. Apost._ viii. 1.

[4.51] Luke ii. 37; II. Cor. vi. 5; xi. 27.

[4.52] II. Cor. vii. 10.

[4.53] _Acts_ viii. 26, et seq.; x. entire; xvi. 6, 7, 9, et seq. Compare Luke ii. 27, &c.

[4.54] _Acts_ xx. 19, 31. Rom. viii. 23, 26.