Chapter XLIII: Part II: , Bk. 5, also Etheridge’s “Introduction to Hebrew

Literature,” p. 21.

143 – “Introduction to Hebrew Literature,” Etheridge, p. 29.

144 – See Parkhurst’s Lexicon, “Sanhedrin,” p. 825.

145 – “Introduction to Hebrew Literature,” Etheridge, p. 29.

146 – Etheridge, “Introduction to Jewish Literature,” p. 88.
Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple burned A. D. 70.

147 – Simon Ben Yochai, time of the Emperor Antonine.
“Introduction to Hebrew Literature,” p. 82.

148 – He was head of the Sanhedrin B. C. 32. “Introduction to
Hebrew Literature,” p. 37.

149 – In the Gamara, tract Sanhedrin, fol. 21, 22, Conder’s
“Handbook,” p. 174.

150 – As seen in the inscription in the Siloam tunnel, “Echoes
of Bible History,” Bishop Walsh, p. 282.

151 – Conder’s “Handbook to the Bible,” London, 1887, p. 173.

152 – Recently discovered by Dr. Ginsburg, in British Museum.

153 – Bishop Walsh’s “Echoes of Bible History,” p. 257.

154 – The books are “Jasher,” Josh. 10:13; 2 Sam. 1:18; “The
Acts of Solomon,” 1 Kings 11:41; “The Book of Nathan,”
1 Chron. 29:29; 2 Chron. 9:29; “The Prophecy of Ahijah,
the Shilonite,” and “Iddo” (Yeddo), “the Seer, against
Jeroboam,” 2 Chron. 9:29; “The Book of Shemaiah;” “The
Book of Jehu,” the son of Hanani, 2 Chron. 12:15; 20:34;
“The Sayings of the Seers,” 2 Chron. 33:19; and the
“Lamentations over Josiah,” which are not the same as
those over Jerusalem which we have in the Old Testament.

155 – Josephus’ “Antiquities,” lib. 13, ch. 18. Prideaux, B. II.,
ch. 5., p. 31.

156 – Bloomfield’s “Notes,” Matt. 1:1.

157 – Palestine Exploration Fund Map; but Baedeker 1,788 ft.

158 – See the full references and statements in Maclear’s “New
Testament History,” p. 134. Merivale shows that Cyrenius
was twice governor of Syria, and the Greek word πρώτη
may refer to the first time, or the enrolment. See also
Bloomfield’s “Notes on the New Testament,” Luke 2. “The
whole world” is a term frequently used when only all that
land and no more was meant. Thus in 2 Sam. 24:8, in the
Hebrew, “the whole world” meant, evidently, the whole of
that land only. So in Acts 11:28; 17:6; the phrase was
used in either way as including only the entire Syria or
Judæa to a Jew, or, to a Roman citizen, it was the Roman
Empire.

159 – Gen. 49:10.

160 – As shown in Prideaux’s “Connection.”

161 – This place was then in Gaul, now called France.

162 – “Wars of the Jews,” VI., §9:3.

163 – Bloomfield, John 2:14, note.

164 – Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great by Malthace. See the
Table, p. 229.

165 – Bloomfield, Notes in Matt. 9:9.

166 – Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration.

167 – Died A. D. 420.

168 – Murray’s “Handbook,” 1875, p. 408.

169 – Baedeker’s “Palestine and Syria,” p. 374.

170 – Merrill, “Galilee in the time of Christ,” p. 48.

171 – Herodotus, 3:20, and Athen., p. 268.

172 – Bloomfield, “Notes,” Matt. 26:7.

173 – Idyll 15, line 114; Parkhurst, Lex., 5; Bloomfield,
Luke 8:1.

174 – Josephus, “Antiquities,” XVII., 2:2.

175 – Ellicott, 333, in Maclear’s “Class Book of the New
Testament,” p. 149.

176 – Prideaux, “Connection,” II., 9, p. 379.

177 – “Antiquities,” XVIII., 3:2.

178 – Pausanias, V., 12:12, in Bloomfield’s “Notes,” Matt. 27:51.

179 – As mentioned, “Iliad,” III., l. 315, 316, etc. “Iliad,”
VII., l. 175, 176, etc.

180 – Conybeare and Howson’s, “Life and Travels of St. Paul,”
CXIV.

181 – John 21:2, 3.

182 – Sebaste being the Greek form of the word Augustus.

183 – Acts 6:5.

184 – Baedeker, p. 317.

185 – Josephus’ “Antiquities,” XIX., 1:11, and Maclear’s “New
Testament History,” p. 394.

186 – These cohorts are mentioned by Arrian; see authority in
Bloomfield’s “Notes,” Acts 10:1.

187 – Maclear, “New Testament History,” p. 403, note.

188 – Tac., “Ann.,” 12:13; Josephus, “Antiquities,” III., 15:3;
XX., 2:5. The famine here foretold took place in Judæa
A. D. 44, in the fourth year of Claudius. Josephus,
“Antiquities,” XIX., 7:2.

189 – Merivale, VI., 116, 117. Cassius Longinus was now
appointed, A. D. 44, to the presidency of Syria, and
Cuspius Fadus was appointed governor of Judæa, Josephus,
“Antiquities,” XIX., 9:2; XX., 1:1. See Maclear, “New
Testament History,” p. 409.

190 – For authorities and more minute description see Conder’s
“Handbook to the Bible,” p. 301, seq. For Galilee see
Merrill’s “Galilee in the time of Christ.”

191 – Lightfoot “On the Galatians,” p. 285.
Maclear, “New Testament History,” p. 40.

192 – There was a remarkable influx of Oriental sorcerers,
astrologers, and soothsayers at this time into Rome and
other cities, as Conybeare and Howson show, Vol. I.,
p. 141.

193 – Walpole, “Travels in the East,” p. 222.

194 – Conybeare and Howson place Adana and Ægæ on the course, but
Adana is thought to have been planted by Justinian, and Ægæ
if at Aias, 35 miles southeast of Adana on the coast, was
too far out of the way.

195 – Not the Laodicea of Scripture.

196 – Strabo, 12; died A. D. 25; Claudian in “Eutropius,” 2,
A. D. 395.

197 – Conybeare and Howson, Vol. I., pp. 440‒444, second edition.

198 – Ayres’ Dictionary, “Athens.”

199 – See account in Lippincott’s “Gazetteer.”

200 – To the Church at Thessalonica.

201 – As an educated Greek lady wrote it for the author, Κεχριαῖς.

202 – Pliny, 36, chap. 14; Strabo, 12 and 14; Mela, etc.

203 – Mucianus, A. D. 75, says that in his time the woodwork
appeared as new, though nearly 400 years old. Tristram,
“Seven Churches of Asia,” p. 14.

204 – Judæos impulsore Chresto assidué tumultuantes Româ expulit.
Suetonius, Claudian, 25.

205 – Strabo, XIV., chap. 1.

206 – Pliny V., chap. 31.

207 – Even in the time of Homer, Iliad, IV., 141.

208 – Strabo, XIII., chap. 4, § 4.

209 – Tristram, “Seven Churches.”

210 – Strabo XIII., chap. 4, § 10.

211 – “Annals,” Vol. II., p. 47.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

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– ‘Prœp.’ replaced with ‘Præp.’
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