^54:** threefold assurance. lit. san-nin, the three forms of perfect patience. But the word seems to correspond more or less with the threefold plerophoria or "full assurance," mentioned by St. Paul in Col. ii. 2; Heb. vi. 2; X. 22.

^55:* Eternal Life. Compare a very similar thought in St. John V. 24

^55:+ Genshin, first Japanese Patriarch. A.D. 912-1017. Wrote much on the efficacy of prayer. The distinction which Genshin makes between the two forms of Paradise, and the two kinds of faith, savours somewhat of Manichaeism. Kwedo is a place where the soul is "purged" from the seeds of error, by the "fire" of the Holy Name. See Appendix I and II.

^55:++ Genku's date is A.D. 1133-1212. Genku's compassion for the laity was called out by the political and social miseries of his time, and by the neglect of their duty as religious teachers by the large and influential sects of the day. It is the contention of the Shinshu that all Shinran's reforms were really prompted by Genku (Honen).

^56:* Selected Vow: because Hozo Biku made his Vow after a careful study and examination of all the different Paradises of the various Buddhas.