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 293 CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD-GiTA. October, 1873.] No one knows me. (vii. 26.) Easy to understand, sweet to do. (ix. 2.) I am the way, beginning, end. (ix. 18.) * I make warm, I hold back and let loose the rain, (ix. 19.) I never pass away from him, nor he from me. (vi. 30.) (Conf. Iga-Upanishad 6 in Bibl. lad. vol. XV. p. 72). They who honour me are in me, and I in them, (xix. 29.) None who honour me shall perish, (ix. 31.) Gentleness, equanimity, contentment, penance, almsgiving, honour and dishonour, these are tho characteristics of beings, and are all of them from me. (x. 5.)f I am the origin of all* from me everything pro¬ ceeds. (x. 8.) Thinking of me ... . instructing one another, ever speaking with me, they rejoice and are glad, x. 9.) I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of beings, (x. 20). Among letters I am A. (x. 33.) From all sins will I free thee : be not sorrowful I (xviii. 66.) That the composer of the Bhagavad-Gita knew and used the New Testament, the coincidences which have been pointed out between single thoughts and expressions have been sufficient, as I believe, to prove. In confirmation, however, of the results already won, I make the further obser¬ vation that some larger sections of the Gospel nar¬ rative have been imitated in the Bhagavid-Gita. Among these imitations I reckon first and Chiefly that of the transfiguration of Christ, further that of Peter’s confession of the divinity of Christ, and also of his own unworthincss to be in the company of the Lord after the miracle of the fishes. To these may also perhaps be added that of the so-called eight beatitudes. Bhagavad Gita. If light were suddenly to rise from a thousand suns in heaven, that would be l:ke the light of this great Lord. (xi. 12.) Having on (ibid, ii.) hea¬ venly garments and garlands. No man hath seen God at any time. {John, i. 18.) Dwelling in light unapproachable; whom never man saw, nor can see. (1 Tim. vi. 16.) My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matt. xi. 30; see also Psalm cx. 10.) I am the way. (John, xiv. 6.) I am the first and the last. (Eev. i. 17.) He maketh his sun to rise. . . . and sendeth rain. . . (Matt. v. 45.) He dwelleth in me, and I in him. (John, vi. 57.) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. (John, xvii. 23; also John, vi. 56.) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John, iii. 15.) The fruit of the Spirit is—love, joy, peace, long- suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meek* ness, temperance. (Gal. v. 22*-23.) Of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. (Rom. xi. 36.) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly ; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing each other with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in grace sing¬ ing in your hearts to God. (Col. iii. 16.) I am the first and the last. (Rev. i. 17.) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning Und the ending. (Rev. i. 8.) Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven (Matt. ix. 2.) That the 11th chapter, in which, at Arjuna’s request, Krishna shows himself in liis infinite divine glory, in which he comprehends the universe in himself, is a copy of the Gospel narrative of the transfiguration of Christ, is on the one hand probable, because, as has been mentioned above, other characteristic and pro¬ minent incidents in the life of the Saviour (as, for example, his persecution by Herod, and the washing of the feet at the last supper, etc.) have been transferred to Krishna, and is con¬ firmed by the expression borrowed from tho Gospel with which this glorifioation of Krishna is related in the Bhagavad-Gita. Compare tlie following passages:— Neio Testament. And he was transfigured before them ; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. (Matt. xvii. 2, and conf. Mark, ix. 3.) llt'b. xiii. 6; Luke, vii. 24, nud xii. 4 ; Rev. i. 18; Acts, xvii. 28; Col. ii. 3 ; and John, xii. 24. t Conf. Svcttevit'ira-Upanishad, vi. 5 (Bibl. Ind. u. 8. p. 05), and John, i. 1.
 * With the different epithets in this sloka compare also Hosea., xi. 13; Rev. iii. 14 : John, i. 18; Psalm vii. 11, and