This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...or Saul). JESUS. Ages of worship have made men feel a personal relation to the man Jesus; and yet that had, for years, been the name of the chief angel of God, the Metatron J eshua, or Savior, Helper, found in Is. lxiii, 8, 9, and Rev. i, 1, and on account of which recognized uses it was given to the child, Mt. l, 21; much as the Irish frequently give their children the name Michael, which indeed was at that very time partly used as a synonym to the angel.-chief, J eshua. ARABIAN. Ancient Arabian Yemen divinities (Lenormant, ) were just as interesting; Bil-Rahman, merciful; Yathaa, Savior; Haubas, shining; Samah, elevated; Simidan, powerful; Dhamar, protector. MOHAMMEDAN. The word Muhammad or Ahmad means Praised, De-sired, the Quran means only reading, in Surah 95, and J er 36. 10; 51.63, etc., as qara. CHINESE. Confucius (Kung-fu-tseu) meant tseu, son, title of a noble who had attained majority; fu, teacher; Kung, family name. Lao-tsze meant old boy, old son, old philosopher. Kung-teng, the Coming Messiah. God, loving Father, Tsing-tu-wan; another name for "God, the perfect King." (Taoist) "Yue-Wang-Shang-Ti." Ti, is heaven or God. The Taoist divinity is that of the "Three pure (or) holy Ones." Shi King, 588 B. C., means, "ancient poem book;" Yih King, book of changes. Li-King, book of rites. Lun Yu, Discourses and Dialogues. Ta-chwang-yen, the Buddhist Lala Vistara, the Great Magnificence. Confucian books are the Analects or Gatherings; the Great Learning, the Way of the Mean. There is the Taoist Shan-Hsien-Chwan, Accounts of Spirits and Immortals, Tao, the Way, Virtue, Reason, the Word; so that the Tao-teh-King means the Book of the Way and Virtue. LORD. Likewise the Christian, who...