XVI PAUL’S GOSPEL 143 XVII EPICTETUS CONFESSES FAILURE 151 XVIII PAUL’S ONLY RECORD OF WORDS OF CHRIST 160 XIX HOW SCAURUS STUDIED THE THREE GOSPELS 172 XX SCAURUS ON FORGIVENESS 183 XXI SCAURUS ON THE CROSS 193 XXII SCAURUS ON MARK 201 XXIII SCAURUS ON SOME OF THE MIRACLES 211 XXIV SCAURUS ON CHRIST’S BIRTH 220 XXV SCAURUS ON CHRIST’S DISCOURSES 234 XXVI SCAURUS ON CHRIST’S RESURRECTION (I) 248 XXVII SCAURUS ON CHRIST’S RESURRECTION (II) 257 XXVIII THE LAST LECTURE 267 XXIX SILANUS MEETS CLEMENS 280 XXX SILANUS CONVERSES WITH CLEMENS 291 XXXI CLEMENS ON THE FOURTH GOSPEL 302 XXXII CLEMENS LENDS SILANUS THE FOURTH GOSPEL 312 XXXIII SCAURUS ON THE FOURTH GOSPEL 322 XXXIV THE LAST WORDS OF SCAURUS 333 XXXV CLEMENS ON THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST 347 XXXVI SILANUS BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 360 ERRATA. Transcriber’s Note: the errata have been corrected. Page 49, _for_ “offending to” _read_ “offending.” ” 134, _for_ “a divine” _read_ “divine.” CHAPTER I THE FIRST LECTURE “_I forbid you to go into the senate-house.” “As long as I am a senator, go I must._” Two voices were speaking from one person—the first, pompous, coarse, despotic; the second, refined, dry, austere. There was nothing that approached stage-acting—only a suggestion of one man swelling out with authority, and of another straightening up his back in resistance. These were the first words that I heard from Epictetus, as I crept late into the lecture-room, tired with a long journey over-night into Nicopolis. I need not have feared to attract attention. All eyes were fixed on the lecturer as I stole into a place near the door, next my friend Arrian, who was absorbed in his notes. What was it all about? In answer to my look of inquiry Arrian pushed me his last sheet with the names “Vespasian” and “Helvidius Priscus” scrawled large upon it. Then I knew what it meant. It was a story now nearly forty years old—which I had often heard from my father’s old friend, Æmilius Scaurus—illustrating the duty of obeying the voice of the conscience rather than the voice of a king. Epictetus, after his manner, was throwing it into the form of a dialogue:— “_Vespasian._ I forbid you to go into the senate-house. “_Priscus._ As long as I am a senator, go I must. “_Vespasian._ Go, then, but be silent. “_Priscus._ Do not ask my opinion, and I will be silent. “_Vespasian._ But I am bound to ask it. “_Priscus._ And I am bound to answer, and to answer what I think right.