[41:1] 1 Tim. ii., 2. Epictetus wrote: "Cæsar has promised us a profound peace; there are neither wars, nor battles, nor great robberies, nor piracy."--_Dis._, iii., 13. [41:2] Lewin, _Life and Epistles of St. Paul_. Lond., 1878. Bergier, _Histoire des Grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain_. [41:3] Merivale, iv., ch. 41. [41:4] The chief writers were: Ovid, d. 17; Livy, d. 17; Lucan, d. 65; Seneca, d. 65; Pliny, d. 115; Tacitus, d. 119; Juvenal, d. 130. [41:5] Schürer, ii., § 22; Graetz, i., ch. 20. [41:6] Plato, _Protagoras_, tr. by Jowett; Aristotle, _Politics_, bk. 8, tr. by Jowett; Mahaffy, _Old Greek Ed._; St. John, _The Hellenes_, bk. 2, ch. 4; Davidson, _Aristotle_, bk. 1, ch. 4; _The Nation_, March 24, 1892, pp. 230-231; Zeller, _Socrates and the Socratic Schools_, ch. 3; Capes, _University Life in Ancient Athens_, ch. 1; Newman, _Hist. Sketches_, ch. 4; Thirlwell, _Hist. of Greece_, i., ch. 8. [42:1] Döllinger, _Gentile and Jew_, ii., 294-296; Kirkpatrick, _Hist. Develop. of Super. Instr._; _Am. Jour. of Ed._, xxiv., 468-470. [42:2] Gieseler, i., § 11. [42:3] Döllinger, _Gentile and Jew_, i., bk. 7. [43:1] _About the Republic_, iii., 6; Virgil, _Eclogues_, iv., 4-10; 13, 14; Lactantius, _Divine Inst._, vi., 8; Suetonius, _Life of Vesp._, ch. 4; Tacitus, _Histories_, v., 13. [43:2] Gladstone, _Gods and Men of the Heroic Age_; Tyler, _Theol. of the Greeks_; Cocker, _Christ and Greek Philos._; Niebuhr, _Stories of Gr. Heroes_; Berens, _Myths and Legends of Anc. Gr._; Taylor, _Anc. Ideals_; Parnell, _Cults of the Gr. States_; Ely, _Olympus_; Francillon, _Gods and Heroes_; Grote; Curtius; Thirlwell. [43:3] Read _Iliad_, _Odyssey_ and Hesiod, _Theogeny_. [43:4] _Concerning the Republic_, ii. [43:5] Adam, _The Religious Teachers of Greece_, Edinb., 1908. Baur, _The Christian Element in Plato_, Edinb., 1861; Hatch, _The Greek Influence on Christianity_. Hibbert Lectures, 1888. [44:1] Schürer, _Hist. of Jewish People_; Milman, _Hist. of the Jews_; Stanley _Lect. on Hist. of Jewish Ch._; Ewald, _Hist. of Jewish People_; Edersheim, _Prophecy and Hist. in Rel. to the Messiah_; Kent, _Hist. of Heb. People_; Graetz, _Hist. of Jews_; Newman, _Christianity in its Cradle_. See Josephus for full account. [44:2] _Jewish Encyc._ See Josephus, _Antiq._, XIII., x., 5, 6; v., 9; XVII., ii., 4; XVIII., i., 2. [44:3] _Jewish Encyc._ See Josephus, _Antiq._, XIII., v., 9; x., 6; XVIII., i., 3; _Wars_, II., viii., 14. [44:4] Matt. xxii., 23; Mark xii., 18; Luke xx., 27; Josephus, _Antiq._, XVIII., i., 4. [44:5] Acts xxiii., 8. [44:6] It must be remembered that Nicodemus, Gamaliel, and others came from this class. [44:7] _Jewish Encyc._ [45:1] Josephus; Philo; Pliny; Lightfoot, _Ep. to Gal._; Schürer, ii., 188; _Jewish Encyc._ [45:2] _Jewish Encyc._ [45:3] John iv., 4; viii., 48; Luke ix., 52, 53; x., 25-37. [45:4] Josephus, _Antiq._, XVIII., i., 1-6; Rhees, _Life of Jesus_; _Jewish Encyc._ Hastings, _Dict. of the Bible_.