[68] Refs. in De Potter, L'Esprit de l'Église, 1821, iv, 95-98.
[71] Professed prophecies, that is, not political calculations.
[72] The systematic deposition of ordure in the drawers of commodes in 1870, in beds and rooms and on piles of food in 1914, is a historical fact. As to the sack of Rome, Cantù's account is: "Delle bolle papali stabbiano i cavalli" (Istoria degli Italiani, ed. 1876, ix, 372).
[75] Zeller, L'histoire de France racontée par les contemporains, vol. 21, p. 102.
[77] Sismondi-Toccagni, Storia delle repub. ital., 1852, iv, 123.
[78] Burckhardt, Renaissance in Italy, Eng. tr., ed. 1892, p. 23.
[81] Rev. W. Denton, England in the Fifteenth Century, 1888, pp. 81-82.
[82] Barante, Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne, ed. 7ième, iii, 234.
[85] This detail, from Niketas, is also given by Gibbon, ch. lx, near end, and by Michaud, Hist. des Croisades, iii (1817), 154-55. Mills omits it. Michaud, like Cantù, stresses the point of ordure. So does Fleury, Hist. éccles., xvi, 149.
[86] Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, The Crusades, 8th ed. p. 157.
[88] Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Bohn trans. i, 158.
[89] Hall's Chronicle, Hen. VIII, ed. 1550, fol. 112.
[90] Burckhardt, Renaissance in Italy, Eng. tr. ed. 1892, p. 29.
[91] Perrens, Hist. de Florence, 1434-1531, i, 385.
[94] Though in reporting the sack of Rome he makes the Germans behave the more brutally as regards the cardinals.
[100] Histor. Introd. to the N. T., 4th ed. 1889, p. 111.
[101] Nöldeke, Sketches from Eastern History, 1892, p. 28.
[102] The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, ed. Rendel Harris, 1909, pp. 74, 118.
[104] Bousset (The Anti-Christ Legend, Eng. tr. p. 23) "assumes, with many recent expositors, that the distinctly apocalyptic part of Matt. xxiv and Mark xiii is a fragment of foreign origin introduced amid genuine utterances of the Lord. It is also evident that, compared with that of Mark, the text of Matthew is the original." Here we have the old strategy of compromise.
[105] The assertion of Dr. Conybeare (Myth, Magic, and Morals, p. 46), that the destruction of the temple was "an event which any clear-sighted observer of the growing hostility between Jew and Roman must have foreseen," is characteristic of that writer's way of interpreting documents. A second reading may perhaps yield him another impression. Forty years of non-fulfilment is a precious proof of the "must."