With a slight emendation of the text of the MSS (ἐπιστησάμενος for ἐπιστάμενος). Footnote 202: The reference is to an incident in the earlier life of Agrippa, when a prisoner at Rome under Tiberius. A fellow-prisoner, a German, seeing an owl sitting on a tree against which Agrippa was leaning, had foretold his rise to power, adding a warning: “Remember when you see this bird again, you will have but five days to live” (_Ant._ XVIII. 6. 7). Eusebius, in citing the present passage (_H.E._ II. 10), omits the words “the owl” and “on a rope,” writing “saw _an angel_ sitting above his head,” no doubt under the influence of Acts xii. 23 (ἄγγελος Κυρίου). Footnote 203: Reading προσίθυσεν. Footnote 204: Many MSS have “looking up” (ἀναθεωρῶν for ἀναθορὼν). Footnote 205: Lit. “our.” Footnote 206: Lit. “on.” Footnote 207: Antipas. (34) The Story of King Izates and his mother Helena The pleasing story of the conversion to Judaism of Helena, Queen of Adiabene (in the upper Tigris region), and her son Izates in two particulars illustrates the narrative of the _Acts_. The famine at Jerusalem which was the occasion of the charitable services of the Queen was that “which came to pass in the days of Claudius” (A.D. 41-54), and led the Antiochene Christians to send similar relief by the hands of Barnabas and Saul (Acts xi. 28-30). Again, it is interesting to read of the conflicting opinions of Jewish Rabbis as to the necessity for circumcision in a proselyte to Judaism. The same question, with relation to converts to Christianity, was soon to come to the front in the councils of the infant church (Acts xv.).