Endnotes

  1. For Apology of Aristides see here.

  2. See here.

  3. For details see Max Müller, Contemp. Review (July, 1870).

  4. Cp. here: ἵνα γνῷς, ὦ βασιλεῦ, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπ’ ἐμαυτοῦ ταῦτα λέγω, ταῖς Γραφαῖς ἐγκύψας τῶν Χριστιανῶν εὑρήσεις οὐδὲν ἔξωθεν τῆς ἀληθείας με λέγειν.

  5. I.e. The Lord gathers.

  6. Simon Magus (?).

  7. The Latin pallium. παλλίον, or πάλλιον, is used by Epiphanius and others. See E. A. Sophocles’ Greek Lexicon.

  8. Greg. Naz. Orat. xl. 45. οὐκ ἔτι μὲν σάρκα, οὐκ ἀσώματον δέ, οἷς αὐτὸς οἶδε λόγοις, θεοειδεστέρου σώματος, κ.τ.λ.

  9. A play on the Greek word Kosmos which means: (1) An orderly arrangement, (2) Universe .

  10. It was the Apology of Aristides, written circa AD 125. See the Introduction.

  11. It should be Habakkuk.

  12. Serug, Gen. 11:20; Luke 3:35.

  13. This reference to an assembly suggests a variant version of this episode for above (see here) Theudas is closeted with Ioasaph and the king.

  14. Strictly a swimming-bath. Then, in Ecclesiastical Greek, a Font.