Note 642 — Chapter II · THE SAINTS’ DAYS (continued 2)
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Abdias, De Historia Certaminis Apostolorum Libri X., Gutschmid (Kleine Schriften, ii. 364-372), considers the author of the Acta Simonis et Judæ contained in this history is familiar with Persian customs and lived in the ante-Nicene period. Gutschmid adds that both apostles preached in Armenia, A.D. 39-47, which was then subject to Persia, and fancies he can discover allusions to the civil war waged by the two Persian kings, Vardanes and Gotarzes. In the history Vardanes was favourable to Greek customs and had been visited by Apollonius of Tyana.