[9.24] To conclude thence that all this history was invented by the author of the _Acts_ seems to us rash. The author of the _Acts_ insists with satisfaction upon the facts which support his opinions; but we do not believe that he introduces into his narrative facts purely symbolical or deliberately invented. See _Introd._ [9.25] For the analogous state of the first Mormons, see Jules Remy, _Voyage au pays des Mormons_ (Paris, 1860), i. p. 195, and following. [9.26] _Acts_ viii. 39-40. Compare _Luke_ iv. 14. [9.27] _Acts_ ix. 32, 38. [9.28] Ib. viii. 40; xi. 11. [9.29] Ib. xxi. 8. [9.30] Jos. _B. J._ III. ix. 1. [9.31] _Acts_ xxiii. 23, and following; xxv. 1, 5; Tacitus _Hist._ ii. 79. [9.32] Jos. _B. J._ III. ix. 1. [9.33] Jos. _Ant._ XX. viii. 7; _B. J._ II. xiii. 5; xiv. 5; xviii. 1. [9.34] Palm. of Jerusalem, _Sota_, 21 b. [9.35] Jos. _Ant._ XIX. vii. 3-4; viii. 2. [9.36] _Acts_ xi. 19. [9.37] Ib. ix. 2, 10, 19. CHAPTER X. [10.1] This date resulted from the comparison of chapters ix., xi., xii. of the _Acts_ with Gal. i. 18; ii. 1, and from the synchronism presented by Chapter xii. of the _Acts_ with profane history, a synchronism which fixes the date of the incidents detailed in this chapter at the year 44. [10.2] _Acts_ ix. 11; xxi. 39; xxii. 3. [10.3] In the Epistle to Philemon, written about the year 61, he calls himself an "old man" (v. 9); _Acts_ vii. 57, he calls himself a young man. [10.4] In the same way that those named "Jesus" often called themselves "Jason;" the "Josephs," "Hegesippe;" the "Eliacim," "Alcime," etc. St. Jerome (_De Viris Ill._ 5) supposes Paul took his name from the proconsul Sergius Paulus (_Acts_ xiii. 9). Such an explanation seems hardly admissible. If the _Acts_ only give to Saul the name of "Paul," after his relations with that personage, that would argue that the supposed conversion of Sergius was the first important act of Paul as apostle of the Gentiles. [10.5] _Acts_ xiii. 9, and following. The closing phrases of all the Epistles; II. Peter iii. 15. [10.6] The Ebionite calumnies (Epiphan. _Adv. hær._ xxx. 16, 25) should not be seriously taken. [10.7] St. Jerome, _loc. cit._ Inadmissible as the present St. Jerome, though this tradition appears to have some foundation. [10.8] Rom. xi. 1; Phil. iii. 5. [10.9] _Acts_ xxii. 28. [10.10] _Acts_ xxiii. 6. [10.11] Phil. iii. 5; _Acts_ xxvi. 5. [10.12] _Acts_ vi. 9; Philo, _Leg. ad Caium_, § 36. [10.13] Strabo XIV. x. 13. [10.14] _Ibid_. XIV. x. 14, 15; Philostratus _Vie d'Apollonius_, 1, 7. [10.15] Jos. _Ant._, last paragraph, Cf. _Vie de Jésus_. [10.16] Philostratus, _loc. cit._ [10.17] _Acts_ xvii. 22, etc.; xxi. 37.