12. Ibid. 11.
13. Luke ii, 26.
14. Isai. xxxviii, 11.
15. Ibid . 12.
16. Isai. xxxviii, 12.
17. Ibid.,
18. Ibid., 13.
19. Ibid., 14.
20. Isai. liii, 7.
21. Isai. xxxviii, 17.
22. Ibid., 18, 19.
23. Gr. a)nabaqmou&j . "Cyril of Alexandria and Jerome thought that the steps were really stairs, and that the shadow (perhaps of some column or obelisk on the top) fell on a greater or smaller number of them according as the sun was low or high. The terrace of a palace might thus easily be ornamented." Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. Josephus quotes a passage from Apion to the effect that in Egypt "Moses set up pillars instead of gnomons, under which was represented a cavity like that of a boat, and the shadow that fell from their tops fell down upon that cavity, that it might go round about the like course as the sun itself goes round in the other." See Whiston's Josephus --contra Apion. Book II , near the beginning.
24. II Kings xx, 10.
25. According to Bêrôsus, this king, whom he calls Mardocampados was himself, like Hezekiah, tributary to the Assyrians.
26. Isai. xl, 22.
27. Isai. xlv, 18.
28. Isai. xlv, 1-4.
29. Ibid. 13.
30. The foregoing quotations are taken from the forty-fifth chapter of Isaiah. Some biblical critics contend that the latter chapters of this Prophet (40 to 66) were written by a deutero-Isaiah who was about a century later than the first. One of their arguments in support of this view is, that Cyrus is mentioned by name, and that an intimate knowledge is exhibited of his career.
31. Ezra i, 1-3.
32. Isai. xl, 22.
33. See note 2, p. 24.
34. Isai. xxxix, 3.
35. Ibid., 4.
36. Ibid., 5-7.