Note 4.1 — Chapter IV · DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT; ECSTATICAL AND PROPHETICAL PHENOMENA.

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.