Note 19.1 — Chapter XIX · THE FUTURE OF MISSIONS.
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See de Rossi, Bull. di Arch. Crist. 3d year, Nos. 3, 5, 6, 12, Eg. Pomponia Græcina (Tac. Ann. xiii. 32) under Nero as already characteristic; but it is not certain that she was a Christian.
[19.2] See de Rossi, Roma Sotteranea I. p. 309; and pl. xxi. No. 12 and the epigraphic collations of Leon Renier, Comptes Rend. de l'Acad. des Inscr. et B. L. 1865, p. 289, etc., and of Creuly, Rev. Arch. Jan. 1866, p. 63–64. Comp. de Rossi, Bull. 3d year, No. 10, p. 77–79.
[19.3] I. Cor. i. 26, etc.; Jac. ii. 5, etc.
[19.4] Αἶρε τοὺς ἀθέους. See relation of martyrdom of Polycarp. § 3, 9, 12. Ruinart. Acta sincera, p. 31, etc.
[19.5] Ebionim. See Vie de Jésus. Jac. ii. 5, etc. Comp. πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι, Matth. v. 3.
[19.6] See ante.
[19.7] Tac. Ann. XV. 44, Plin. Epist. X. 97; Suet. Nero 16; Domit. 15; Philopatris, passim. Rutil. Numat. 1, 389, etc.; 440, etc.
[19.8] John xv. 17, etc.; xvi. 8, etc., 33; xvii. 15, etc.
[19.9] James i. 27.
[19.10] I allude to the essential and primitive tendencies of Christianity, not to the transformed Christianity now preached, especially that of the Jesuits.
[19.11] See history of the origin of Babism by M. de Gobineau, Les Relig. et les Philos. dans l'Asie Centrale (Paris, 1865), p. 141, etc.; and by Mirza Kazem-beg in the Journal Asiatique (in press). I myself have received information from two individuals at Constantinople, who were personally mixed in the affairs of Babism, which confirms the narration of these two savants.
[19.12] M. de Gobineau, p. 301, etc.
[19.13] Another detail which I have from original sources is as follows: Several of the sectaries, to compel them to retract, were tied to the mouths of cannon, with a lighted slow-match attached. The offer was made to them to cut off the match if they would renounce Bab. In reply, they only stretched out their hands towards the creeping spark, and besought it to hasten and consummate their happiness.