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. The following corrections have been made in the text: Page 184: Sentence starting: The tradition seems.... – ‘Testement’ replaced with ‘Testament’ (canonical books of the Old Testament) Page 224: Sentence starting: Hence to him their.... – ‘Sandedrin’ replaced with ‘Sanhedrin’ (consultation with the Sanhedrin,) Footnote 43: – ‘Prœp.’ replaced with ‘Præp.’ (“Præp Evang.,” IX., 17.) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Class-Book of Biblical History and Geography, by Henry S. Osborn