[560] The mandrake was a very popular object of superst.i.tion in the Middle Ages. The fullest information on the subject will be found in the editor's Archaeological Alb.u.m, p. 178.

[561] Gen. x.x.xiii. 19.

[562] Josh. xxiv. 32.

[563] John iv. 5.

[564] Gen. xlviii. 22.

[565] Gen. xxviii.

[566] Josh. xviii. 13.

[567] Judges, ix. 21.

[568] 1 Sam. xiv.

[569] Luke, ii. 24.

[570] 2 Sam. 24.

[571] De Bell. Jud., lib. v. c. 4.

[572] Matt. xxvii. 51.

[573] John, xix. 39.

[574] Jer. x.x.xviii.

[575] 2 Kings, ii. 19.

[576] Josh. iii. 15.

[577] Jerem. xlix. 19, and l. 44. See before, p. 21.

[578] Gen. xiv. 10.

[579] Tacit. Hist., lib. v.; Joseph. Bell. Jud., lib. v. cap. 5.

[580] Ant., lib. iv. cap. 10.

[581] 2 Sam. v. 23.

[582] Eccl. ii. 5, 6.

[583] Cant. iv. 12.

[584] 2 Sam. xxiii. 15.

[585] Acts, viii. 28.

[586] Matt. iii. 4.

[587] See, before, the account of the honey trees, given by Arculf, p. 8.

It is curious to compare these traditions of mistaken interpretations, which lasted long, and influenced many good writers.

[588] 1 Sam. xvii.

[589] Luke i. 46.

[590] Ibid. i. 6.

[591] See before, p. 27.

[592] 1 Kings, xviii.

[593] Acts, xii.

[594] Matt, xxviii. 9.

[595] Acts, xii. 2.

[596] John, xviii. 22.

[597] Matt. xxvii. 60.

[598] Ant. Jud. lib. xv. cap. ult.

[599] 2 Mac. i. 19.

[600] Matt. xxvii. 5. Acts, i. 18, 19.

[601] Matt. xxiv. 2.

[602] Luke, xi. 1, 2.

[603] Acts, i. 10, 11.

[604] Luke, xix. 41.

[605] Bell. Jud., lib. vii. cap. 15, and other places.

[606] John, v.

[607] Luke, vii. 38.

[608] Judg. iii. 31.

[609] Luke, i. 28.