his peculiar glories on Mount Hermon, and had so highly consecrated him to the great cause, had yet greater things for him to do; and to new works of love and glory he now called him, from the castle-prison of his royal persecutor. _Ten years._――This piece of chronology is thus settled. Jesus Christ, according to all common calculation, was crucified as early as the _twentieth_ year of the reign of Tiberius. Irenaeus maintains that it was in the _fifteenth_ of that reign. Eusebius and Epiphanius fix it in the _eighteenth_, or, according to Petavius’s explanation of their meaning, in the _seventeenth_ of his actual reign. Tertullian, Julius Africanus, Jerome, and Augustin, put it in the _sixteenth_. Roger Bacon, Paulus Burgensis, and Tostatus, also support this date, on the ground of an astronomical calculation of the course of the moon, fixing the time when the passover must have occurred, so as to accord with the requirement of the Mosaic law, that it should be celebrated on a new moon. But Kepler has abundantly shown the fallacy of this calculation. Antony Pagus, also, though rejecting this astronomical basis, adheres to the opinion of Tertullian, Jerome, &c. Baronius fixes it in the _nineteenth_ of Tiberius. Pearson, L. Cappel, Spanheim, and Witsius, with the majority of the moderns, in the _twentieth_ of Tiberius. So that the unanimous result of all these great authorities, places it as early as this last mentioned year. A full and highly satisfactory view of all these chronological points and opinions, is given by the deeply learned Antony Pagus, in his great “Critical Historico-Chronological Review of Baronii.” Saecul. I. Ann. Per. Gr.‒Rom. 5525. ¶ 3‒13. Now, from Josephus it is perfectly evident that Agrippa did not leave Rome until some time after the beginning of the reign of Claudius, and it is probable not before the close of the first year. Counting backwards through the four years of Caligula, this makes _five_ years after the death of Tiberius, and _eight_ on the latest calculation from the death of Christ; while according to the higher and earlier authority, it amounts to _nine_, _ten_, _eleven_, or to _twelve_ years from the crucifixion to Agrippa’s arrival in Judea. And moreover, it is not probable that the persecution referred to occurred immediately on his arrival. Indeed, from the close way in which Luke connects Agrippa’s death with the preceding events, it would seem as if he would fix his “going down from Jerusalem to Caesarea,” and his death at the latter place, very soon after the escape of Peter. This of course being in the end of Claudius’s _third_ year, brings the events above, down to the _eleventh_ or _twelfth_ from the crucifixion, even according to the latest conjecture as to the date of that event. Probably, however, the connection of the two events was not as close as a common reading of the Acts would lead one to suppose.