Footnotes (continued 2)
Reading edition
601.
“In this weird world of fantasy, peopled by a rich Oriental imagination with spectral shapes and uncouth figures, where angels flit, eagles and altars speak, and monsters rise from sea and land—in a world of this kind many Asiatic Christians of that age evidently were at home, and there the prophet's message had to find them.” Moffatt, Exp. Gr. Test., Rev., Intr., p. 301.
602.
See art. “Development of Doctrine in the Apocryphal Period,” Hastings' Dict. of Bib., vol. 5; also art. “Zoroasterism” by Moulton, Hastings' Dict. of Bib.
603.
Zenos, art. “Apoc. Lit.,” Hastings' Dict. of Christ and the Gospels.
604.
“The deus ex machina, an abnormal and effectual interposition of God, is an essential feature of an apocalypse.” Humphries, St John and Other Teachers, p. 92.