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[292:14] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. 45.
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[293:1] This has evidently an allusion to the Trinity. Buddha, as an incarnation of Vishnu, would be one god and yet three, three gods and yet one. (See the chapter on the Trinity.)
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[293:2] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 45, and Beal: Hist. Buddha, p. 177.
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Iamblichus, the great Neo-Platonic mystic, was at one time transfigured. According to the report of his servants, while in prayer to the gods, his body and clothes were changed to a beautiful gold color, but after he ceased from prayer, his body became as before. He then returned to the society of his followers. (Primitive Culture, i. 136, 137.)
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[293:4] See that recorded in Matt. viii. 28-34.
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[293:6] Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 49.
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[293:7] See Matt. xxviii. John, xx.
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[293:13] Matt. xvi. 27; John, v. 22.
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[293:14] "Buddha, the Angel-Messiah, was regarded as the divinely chosen and incarnate messenger, the vicar of God, and God himself on earth." (Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. 33. See also, our chap. xxvi.)
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[293:16] John, i. 1. Titus, ii. 13. Romans, ix. 5. Acts, vii. 59, 60.
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[293:17] Müller: Hist. Sanscrit Literature, p. 80.
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[293:18] This is according to Christian dogma:
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"Jesus paid it all, All to him is due, Nothing, either great or small, Remains for me to do."
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[293:19] Müller: Science of Religion, p. 28.
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[293:20] "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your father which is in heaven." (Matt. vi. 1.)
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[293:21] "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed." (James, v. 16.)
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[294:1] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, pp. x. and 39.
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[294:2] "That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John, i. 9.)
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[294:3] Matt. iv. 1; Mark, i. 13; Luke, iv. 2.
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[294:4] Müller: Science of Religion, p. 140.

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Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning, Project Gutenberg eBook #31885

FOOTNOTES: (continued 6) THE EUCHARIST OR LORD'S SUPPER.