Note 1 — Chapter VIII · CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS

unable to trace any real and fundamental connection between the stories. In the Buddhist narrative [which had been cited as an analogue1] the “temptation” to satisfy the cravings of hunger, the promptings of ambition, and the doubts as to the overruling Providence of God, are all wanting. In the Roman story, too, Pan, as representing in satyr-form the lower and animal propensities of man, is a very different being to the Hebrew Satan; moreover, there is no tempting of Jupiter, as there is of Jesus. Jupiter, likewise, is wholly a god; Jesus is a sorely bested Man, although divine. There is, in short, not the least affinity between any of these narratives beyond the general idea of trial.2