Note 13.1 — Chapter XIII · THE IDEA OF AN APOSTOLATE TO THE GENTILES.—SAINT BARNABAS.
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Acts xi. 22, &c.
[13.2] Acts xi. 25.
[13.3] Acts xi. 26.
[13.4] Libanius. Pro templis, p. 164, &c.; De carcere vinctis, p. 458.; Theodoret, Hist. Eccl. iv. 28; Jean Chrysost.; Homil. lxxii. in Matt. 3 (vol. vii. p. 705). In Epist. ad Ephes. Hom. vi. 4 (vol. xi. p. 44); In i. Tim. Hom. xiv. 3 &c. (ibid. p. 628, &c.); Nicephore xii. 44; Glycas p. 257 (Paris edition).
[13.5] Acts xi. 26.
[13.6] The passages I. Petri iv. 16, and James ii. 7, compared with Suet. Nero 16, and with Tac. Ann. xv. 44, confirm this idea. See also Acts xxvi. 28.
[13.7] It is true that we find Ἀσιανός (Acts xx. 4; Philo. Legatio, 36; Strabo, etc.). But it seems to be a Latinism like Δαλδιανοί, and the names of the sects Σιμωνιανοί, Κηρινθιανοί, Σηθιανοί, etc. The Greek derivative χριστός had been χριστειος. It serves nothing to say that the termination anus is a Doric form of the Greek ηνος; this was not known at all during the first century.
[13.8] Tac. (loc. cit.) so interprets it.
[13.9] Suet. Claud. 25. We shall discuss this passage in our next book.
[13.10] Corpus Inscr. Gr. Nos. 2883 d., 3857 g., 3857 p., 3865 l. Tertul. Apol. 3; Lactance Divin. Inst. iv. 7. Comp. the French form chrestien.
[13.11] James ii. 7, only implies an occasional usage.
[13.12] Acts xxiv. 5; Tertull. Adv. Marcionem iv. 8.
[13.13] Nesârâ. The names of meschihoio in Syriac, mesihi in Arabic, are relatively modern, and outlined from χριστιανός. The name of “Galileans” is much more recent. Julian gave it an official signification. Jul. Epist. vii.; Gregory, Orat. iv. (Invect. i.), 76; S. Cyrille d'Alex. Contre Julien ii. p. 39, (Spanheim ed.); Philopatris, dialogue falsely attributed to Lucian, though really of the time of Julien, § 12; Theodoret Hist. Eccl. iii. 4. I believe that in Epictetus (Arrien, Dissert. iv., vii., 6) and in Marcus Aurelius (Pensées xi. 3), this name does not designate Christians, but rather “assassins” (Sicaires), fanatical disciples of Judas the Galilean or the Gaulonite, and of John of Gisehala.
[13.14] I. Petri iv. 16; James ii. 7.
[13.15] Acts xiii. 2.
[13.16] Ibid xiii 1.
[13.17] See chapter vi.
[13.18] Acts xiii. 1.
[13.19] Euseb. Chron. at the year 43; Hist. Eccl. iii. 22. Ignatii Epist. ad Antioch. (apocr.) 7.
[13.20] I. Cor. xiv. entire.
[13.21] II. Cor. xii. 1–5.
[13.22] It places this vision fourteen years before he wrote the second Epistle to the Corinthians, which dates about the year 57. It is not impossible, however, that he was still at Tarsus.
[13.23] For Jewish ideas about the heavens, see Testam. des 12 patr. Levi. 3; Ascension d'Isaïe, vi. 13; viii. 8, and all the rest of the book; Talm. of Babyl., Chagiga 12 b.; Midraschim Bereschith rabba, sect. xix. fol. 19 c.; Schemoth rabba, sect. xv. fol. 115 d.; Bammiabar rabba, sect, xiii fol. 218 a.; Debarim rabba, sect. ii. fol. 253 a.; Schir hasschirim rabba, fol. 24 d.
[13.24] Comp. Talmud of Babylon, Chagiga, 14 b.
[13.25] Comp. Ascension d'Isaïe, vi. 15; vii. 3, &c.
[13.26] II. Cor. xii. 12; Rom. xv. 19.
[13.27] I. Cor. xii. entire.
[13.28] Acts xi. 29; xxiv. 17; Gal. ii. 10; Rom. xv. 26; I. Cor. xvi. 1; II. Cor. viii. 4, 14; ix. 1, 12.
[13.29] Jos. Ant. XVIII., vi., 3, 4; XX., v. 2.
[13.30] James ii. 5, &c.
[13.31] Acts xi. 28; Jos. Ant. XX., ii. 6; v. 2; Euseb. Hist. Eccl. ii. 8, 12. Comp. Acts xii. 20; Tac. Ann. xii. 43; Suet. Claud. 18; Dion Cass. lx. 11. Aurelius Victor, Cas., 4; Euseb. Chron. year 43, &c. The reign of Claudius was afflicted almost every year by partial famines.
[13.32] Acts xi. 27, &c.
[13.33] The book of Acts (xi. 30; xii. 25) includes Paul in this journey. But Paul declares that between his first sojourn of two weeks and his journey for the affair of the circumcision, he did not visit Jerusalem. (Gal. ii. 1.) See Introduction.
[13.34] Gal. i., 17–19.
[13.35] Acts xiii. 3; xv. 36; xviii. 23.
[13.36] Ibid. xiv. 25; xviii. 22.