[12.48] F. Naironi, _Anoplia fidei Cathol._ (Rome, 1694), p 58,
et seq., and the work of S. Em. Paul Peter Masad, present
patriarch of the Maronites, entitled Kitab ed. durr ed.
manzoum (in Arabic, printed at the convent of Zamisch in the
Kesronan, 1863).
[12.49] _Acts_ xi. 19, 20; xiii. 1.
[12.50] Gal. ii. 11, et seq., presumes it to be so.
CHAPTER XIII.
[13.1] _Acts_ xi. 22, &c.
[13.2] _Acts_ xi. 25.
[13.3] _Acts_ xi. 26.
[13.4] Libanius. _Pro templis_, p. 164, &c.; _De carcere vinctis_, p.
458.; Theodoret, _Hist. Eccl._ iv. 28; Jean Chrysost.; Homil.
lxxii. _in Matt._ 3 (vol. vii. p. 705). _In Epist. ad Ephes._
Hom. vi. 4 (vol. xi. p. 44); In i. Tim. Hom. xiv. 3 &c. (ibid.
p. 628, &c.); Nicephore xii. 44; Glycas p. 257 (Paris edition).
[13.5] _Acts_ xi. 26.
[13.6] The passages I. Petri iv. 16, and James ii. 7, compared with
Suet. _Nero_ 16, and with Tac. _Ann._ xv. 44, confirm this
idea. See also _Acts_ xxvi. 28.
[13.7] It is true that we find Ἀσιανός (_Acts_ xx. 4; Philo. Legatio,
36; Strabo, etc.). But it seems to be a Latinism like
Δαλδιανοί, and the names of the sects Σιμωνιανοί, Κηρινθιανοί,
Σηθιανοί, etc. The Greek derivative χριστός had been χριστειος.
It serves nothing to say that the termination _anus_ is a Doric
form of the Greek ηνος; this was not known at all during the
first century.
[13.8] Tac. (loc. cit.) so interprets it.
[13.9] Suet. _Claud._ 25. We shall discuss this passage in our next
book.
[13.10] Corpus _Inscr. Gr._ Nos. 2883 d., 3857 g., 3857 p., 3865 l.
Tertul. _Apol._ 3; Lactance Divin. Inst. iv. 7. Comp. the
French form _chrestien_.
[13.11] James ii. 7, only implies an occasional usage.
[13.12] _Acts_ xxiv. 5; Tertull. _Adv. Marcionem_ iv. 8.
[13.13] _Nesârâ._ The names of _meschihoio_ in Syriac, _mesihi_ in
Arabic, are relatively modern, and outlined from χριστιανός.
The name of "Galileans" is much more recent. Julian gave it
an official signification. Jul. _Epist._ vii.; Gregory,
Orat. iv. (Invect. i.), 76; S. Cyrille d'Alex. _Contre Julien_
ii. p. 39, (Spanheim ed.); _Philopatris_, dialogue falsely
attributed to Lucian, though really of the time of Julien,
§ 12; Theodoret _Hist. Eccl._ iii. 4. I believe that in
Epictetus (Arrien, _Dissert._ iv., vii., 6) and in Marcus
Aurelius (_Pensées_ xi. 3), this name does not designate
Christians, but rather "assassins" (_Sicaires_), fanatical
disciples of Judas the Galilean or the Gaulonite, and of
John of Gisehala.
[13.14] I. Petri iv. 16; James ii. 7.
[13.15] _Acts_ xiii. 2.
[13.16] Ibid xiii 1.
[13.17] See chapter vi.
[13.18] _Acts_ xiii. 1.
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