Note 16.1 — Chapter XVI · GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.

Acts xii. 1, 25. Remark the context.

[16.2] I Peter v. 13; Papias in Euseb. Hist. Acc. iii 39.

[16.3] Acts xiii. 2.

[16.4] Gal. i. 15, 16; Acts xvii. 15, 21; xxvi. 17–18; I Cor. i 1; Rom. i, 1, 5; xv. 15, etc.

[16.5] Acts xiii. 5.

[16.6] The author of Acts, being a partisan of the hierarchy and of church-domination, has perhaps inserted this circumstance. Paul knew nothing of any such ordination or consecration. He received his commission from Christ, and did not consider himself any more especially the envoy of the church of Antioch than of that of Jerusalem.

[16.7] Acts xiii. 3; xiv. 25.

[16.8] In I. Peter v. 13, Babylon means Rome.

[16.9] Cic. Pro Archia, 10.

[16.10] Jos., B. J., II. xx. 2; VII. iii 3.

[16.11] Acts xviii. 24, &c.

[16.12] See Philo. De Vita Contempl. passim.

[16.13] Pseudo-Hermes. Asclepius, fol. 158, v. 159 r. (Florence Juntes, 15,12.)

[16.14] Cic. Pro Flacco, 28; Philo. In Flaccum, § 7; Leg. ad Caium, § 36; Acts ii. 5–11; vi. 9; Corp. Inscr. Gr. No. 5361.

[16.15] Lex. Wisigoth; lib. xii, tit. ii. and iii in Walter. Corp. jur. German. Antiq. L I. p. 630, &c.

[16.16] See Vie de Jésus, p. 137.

[16.17] Philo. In Flacc., § 5 and 6; Jos. Ant. XVIII. viii 1; XIX v. 2, B. J. II. xviii. 7, etc.; VII. x. 1. Papyrus printed in Notices et Extraits XVIII., 2d part, p. 383, etc.

[16.18] Dion Cass., XXXVII. 17; LX 6. Philo. Leg. ad Caium, § 23. Jos. Ant. XIV. x. 8; XVII. xi. 1; XVIII. iii. 5; Hor. Sat. I. iv. 142–143; v. 100; ix. 69, &c; Pers. 5, 179–184; Suet. Lib. 36; Claud. 25; Domit. 12; Juv. iii. 14; vi. 542, &c.

[16.19] Pro. Flac. 28.

[16.20] Jos. Ant. XIV. x.; Suet. Jul. 84.

[16.21] Suet. Lib. 36; Tac. Ann. ii. 85; Jos. Ant. XVIII. iii. 4, 5.

[16.22] Dion Cass. LX. 6.

{16.23} {Suétone, Claude, 25; Act., xviii, 2; Dion Cassius, LX, 6.}

[16.24] Jos. B. J., VII. iii. 3.

[16.25] Seneca, fragment in Aug. De Civ. Dei, vi. 11; Rutilius Numatianus i. 395, &c.; Jos. Contr. Apion, ii. 39; Juv. Sat. vi. 544; xiv: 96, &c.

[16.26] Philo. In Flacc. § 5; Tac. Hist. v. 4, 5, 8; Dion. Cass. xlix. 22; Juv. xiv. 103; Diod. Sic. fragm. 1 of lib. xxxiv. and iii of lib. xl.; Philostr. Vit. Apol. v. 33; I. Thess. ii. 15.

[16.27] Jos. Ant. XIV. x.; XVI. vi.; XX. viii 7; Philo. In Flacc. and Legatio ad Caium.

[16.28] Jos. Ant. XVIII. iii. 4, 3 Juv. vi. 543, &c.

[16.29] Jos. Contr. Apion, passim; passages above cited from Tacitus and Diodorus Siculus; Trog. Pomp. (Justin) xxxvi 411; Ptolem. Hephestion or Chennus, in Script. Poet. Hist. Græci of Westermann, p. 194. Cf. Quintilian, III. vii. 2.

[16.30] Cic. Pro Flacco, 28; Tac. Hist. v. 5; Juv. xiv. 103–104; Diodorus Siculus and Philostratus, u. s.; Rutilius Numatianus i. 383, &c.

[16.31] Martial iv. 4; Amm. Marc. xxii. 5.

[16.32] Suet. Aug. 76; Horace Sat. I. ix. 69, &c; Juv. iii. 13–16, 296; vi. 156–160, 542–547; xiv. 96–107; Martial. Epigr. iv. 4; vii. 29, 34, 54; xi. 95; xii. 57; Rutilius Numat. l. c. Jos. Contra Apion, ii. 13; Philo. Leg. ad Caium. § 26–28.

[16.33] Martial, Epigr. xii. 57.

[16.34] Juvenal, Sat. iii. 14; vi. 542.

[16.35] Juvenal, Sat. iii. 296; vi. 543, &c.; Martial, Epigr. i. 42; xii. 57.

[16.36] Martial, Epigr. i. 42; xii. 57; Statius Silves, I. vi. 73–74, and Forcellini on word sulphuratum.

[16.37] Horace, Sat. I. v. 100; Juvenal, Sat. vi. 544, &c., xiv. 96, &c; Apul. Florida, i. 6.

[16.38] Dion Cass. lxviii. 32.

[16.39] Tac. Hist. v. 5, 9; Dion Cass, lxvii 14.

[16.40] Hor. Sat. I. ix. 70; Judæus Apella, appears to be a joke of the same kind (see the scholiasts Acron and Porphyrion upon Hor. Sat. I. v. 100); compare the passage from S. Anitus, Poemata, v. 364, cited by Forcellini on the word Apella, but which I do not find either in the editions of this Father or in the ancient Latin manuscript, Bibl. Imp. No. 11320, as given by the learned lexicographer; Juv. Sat. xiv. 99, &c.; Martial Epigr. vii. 29, 34, 54; xi. 95.

[16.41] Jos. Contr. Apion ii. 39; Tac. Ann. ii. 85, Hist. v. 5; Hor. Sat. I. iv. 142, 143; Juv. xiv. 96, &c.; Dion Cass, xxxvii. 17; lxvii 14.

[16.42] Martial, Epigr. i. 42; xii. 57.

[16.43] Juv. Sat. vi. 546, &c.

[16.44] Jos. Ant. xviii. iii. 5; xx. 11, 4; B. J. II. xx. 2; Act xiii. 50; xvi. 14.

[16.45] Loc. cit.

[16.46] Jos. Ant., xx. 11, 5; iv. 1.

[16.47] Passages already cited. Strabo shows much greater justice and penetration (xvi. 11, 34, &c.) Comp. Dion. Cass, xxxvii. 17, &c.

[16.48] Tac. Hist. v. 5.

[16.49] Jos. Contr. Apion ii. 39.

[16.50] Martial, xii. 57.

[16.51] Jos. Ant. xiv. x. 6, 11, 14.

[16.52] Eccl. x. 25, 27.

[16.53] Rom. i. 24, &c.

[16.54] Zach. viii. 23.

[16.55] Hor. Sat. I. ix. 69; Pers. v. 179, &c. Juv. Sat. vi. 159; xiv. 96, &c.

[16.56] Contr. Apion ii. 39.

[16.57] Pers. v. 179–184; Juv. vi. 157–160. The remarkable preoccupation about Judaism which may be observed in the Roman writers of the first century, especially the satirists, arises from this circumstance.

[16.58] Juv. Sat. iii. 62, &c.

[16.59] Cic. De Prov. consul, 5.

[16.60] The children whose appearance had most pleased me on my first visit, I found four years later, ugly, vulgar, and stupid.

[16.61] Πατρῷοις θεοῖς a very frequent formula in the inscriptions of the Syrians (Corp. Inscr. Græc. Nos. 4449, 4450, 4451, 4463, 4479, 4480, 6015).

[16.62] Corp. Inscr. Græc. Nos. 4474, 4475, 5936; Mission de Phenicie, I. ii c. ii. (in press), inscription of Abeda. Comp. Corpus, Nos. 2271, 5853.

[16.63] Ζεύς οὐράνιος, ἐπουράνιος, ὕψιστος, μέγιστος, θεὸς σατράπης, Corpus Inscr. Gr. Nos. 4500, 4501, 4502, 4503, 6012; Lepsius, Denkmæler, t. xii fol. 100. No. 590. Mission de Phenicie, p. 103, 104.

[16.64] I have developed this in the Journal Asiatique for February 1859, p. 259, &c., and in Mission de Phenicie, 1. II. c. ii.

[16.65] Syrian code in Land, Anecdota Syriaca, i. p. 152, and different facts which I have witnessed.

[16.66] Born in Haran.

[16.67] See Forcellini, word Syrus. This word designates Orientals generally. Leblant, Inscript. Chrét. de la Gaule, i. p. 207, 328, 329.

[16.68] Juvenal, iii. 62–63.

[16.69] Such is at this day the temperament of the Syrian Christian.

[16.70] Inscriptions in Mem. de la Soc. des Antiquaires de Fr. t. xxviii. 4, &c. Leblant, Inscript. Chrét. de la Gaule, i. p. cxliv. 207, 324, &c. 353, &c. ii. 259, 459, &c.

[16.71] The Maronites colonize still in nearly all the Levant like the Jews, Armenians, and Greeks, though on a smaller scale.

[16.72] Cic. De Offic. i. 42; Dion. Hal. ii. 28; ix. 28.

[16.73] See the characters of slaves in Plautus and Terence.

[16.74] II. Cor. xii. 9.

[16.75] Tacit. Ann. ii. 85.