Note 541 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS

The fanaticism of the Palestinian Jews in time affected their co-religionists elsewhere, as when the Jews in Asia Minor rebelled and committed atrocities in the reign of Trajan. See Morrison, Jews under Roman Rule, p. 191, and Renan, Les Évangiles, Paris, 1877, p. 503. Probably such outbreaks were condemned by those of the nation who had anything to lose, as was certainly the case during the Revolt under Hadrian.