Alzog, i., 117-133. Backhouse, 76, 229. Bartlett, 297 ff., 364 ff. Blunt, i., 10, 24, 28, 43, 45. Bouzique, i., ch. 1. Brock, ch. 2, 3. Cheetham, ch. 2, § 5; ch. 4, § 5. Cox, i., ch. 10, 11. Darras, i., ch. 1-3. Döllinger, _First Age_, i., 71-83; ii., 115, 145; _Hist. of Ch._, i., ch. 3, § 4. Duff, ch. 7. Farrar, bk. ii., ch. 5-11. Fisher, 18, 20, 23, 26, 43, 57, 106. Gibbon, ch. 9, 10. Gieseler, i., § 27. Giles, ch. 16. Gilmartin, i., ch. 2, pp. 28, 29. Greenwood, i., ch. 1-3. Hase, 30. Hurst, i., 104-106, 325. Jackson, ch. 3, 11. Jennings, i., ch. 1. Killen, § 1, ch. 10. Kurtz, i., 45. Mahan, bk. i., ch. 8. Milman, i., ch. 1. Milner, i., cent. 1, ch. 12. Moeller, i., 345. Neander, _Planting_, etc., i., bk. iv., ch. 2; _Ch. Hist._, i., 84, 203, 211. Pressensé, _Early Years of Christ._ 10 ff., 64, 176. Renan, _The Apostles_, ch. 6. Robertson, bk. i., ch. 8, p. 160. Schaff, _Apost. Age_, bk. i., ch. 4; _Ch. Hist._, pd. i., ch. 4. Stanley, _Apost. Age_, 1-5, 56-114. Walpole, ch. 1-3. FOOTNOTES: [71:1] Moeller, i., 67, 75; _cf._ Acts xviii., 1-3. [71:2] Gibbon, i., 579. [71:3] _Apol._, 5; Suetonius, _Life of Claudius_, 25. [71:4] Euseb., ii., c. 2. [72:1] Shortly before the Christian era the Jews were so numerous that 8000 could sign a petition to the Emperor.--Josephus, _Antiq._, xvii., c. 11. [72:2] Acts xxviii., 14-16; Ramsay, _St. Paul_, ch. 15. [72:3] Acts xxviii., 24, 30, 31. [72:4] Euseb., ii., c. 22. [73:1] _Annals_, xv., 44. [73:2] Euseb., vi., c. 43. [73:3] Gibbon, i., ch. 15. [73:4] Orr, _Neglected Factors_, 39. [73:5] Rom. xv., 24; _Muratorian Fragment_; Clement of Rome, _To Corinth_, c. 5; Alzog, i. 125; Kurtz, i., 44. [73:6] _Eccl. Hist._, c. 4. [73:7] _Against Jud._, c. 7. [73:8] Euseb., v., c. 1. [74:1] _Annales Francorum._ [74:2] Irenæus, _Against Her._, i., c. 10. [74:3] Tertullian, _Apol._, c. 37; Cyprian, _Ep._, 71, 73; Augustine, _On Bap._, ii., c. 13. [74:4] Rom. i., 8. [75:1] The pagan writer Celsus was familiar with this idea as early as 161 A.D. [75:2] But nothing could be farther from the truth than Gibbon's statement that the Christians were won "almost entirely" from the "dregs of the populace." See Orr, _Neglected Factors_. [75:3] Ramsay in his _Church in the Roman Empire_, 57, goes so far as to say that the new faith "spread at first among the educated more rapidly than among the uneducated." This statement, however, is probably an exaggeration. See an excellent discussion in Orr, _Neglected Factors_, 95-163; Merivale, _The Romans under the Empire_, ch. 54. [76:1] Phil. iv., 22; Lightfoot, _Philippians_, 171 ff.; Howson, _St. Paul_, ch. 26; Weizäcker, _Apost. Age_, ii., 132; Harnack, _Princeton Rev._, 1878, p. 257; Euseb., _Eccl. Hist._, iii., c. 18. [76:2] Alzog, i., §§ 48, 52, 53; Berington and Kirk, ii., 1-113; Gibbons, _Faith of Our Fathers_; _Cath. Encyc._