[92:2] For individuals like Stephen, Acts vii., 58; James, Acts xii., 2; Peter, Acts iv.; xii., 3; Paul, Acts ix., 23, 24; xiv., 5, 19; xvii., 13; xxiii., 12; xvi., 23; xxii., 24. For masses see Acts viii., 1-4; Acts xxvi., 10-12; Clement, _Recognitions_, i., ch. 53, 71; Justin Martyr, _1 Apol._, ch. 36; _Dialogue with Trypho_, ch. 16, 39, 96, 115. [92:3] Hurst, i., 153. [92:4] Acts, xviii., 14, 15; xxi., 31, 32; xxiv., 1-27; xxv., 14; xxvi., 32; Uhlhorn, 238. [92:5] Origen, _Against Celsus_, iii., 1-3. [93:1] _Concerning Laws_, i., pt. 2, ch. 8. This was also the ancient principle of the XII. Tables. [93:2] Bk. iii., ch. 4, par. 1. [93:3] See Tertullian and Celsus. [94:1] Address reported by Dion Cassius. [94:2] Ramsay, 356. [94:3] Uhlhorn, _Conflict of Christ. with Heathenism_, 231. [95:1] Uhlhorn, _Conflict of Christ. with Heathenism_, 234. [95:2] Gibbon, ii., bk. 3, ch. 16. [95:3] Uhlhorn, 224; Moeller, i., 81. [96:1] _Octav._, c. 8. [96:2] _Annales_, xv., c. 44. [96:3] Alzog, i., 257. [96:4] Acts xix., 24 ff.; Pliny, _Ep._, x., 97; Neander, i., 92. [96:5] For a detailed statement of the accusations read the apologies of Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Origen. [96:6] Cyprian, _To Demetrianus_, 1; Origen, _Against Celsus_, iii., ch. 16; Tertullian, _Apol._, ch. 40; _To Nations_, 9; Alzog, i., 261. [96:7] Justin Martyr, _Apol._, i., ch. 6, 13, 17; Arnobius, _Against Gentes_, iii., ch. 28. [97:1] A crucifix with the head of an ass and body of a man was actually dug up in Rome and is now exhibited in a museum there. In Tertullian's day there was circulated a picture of a man with the ears of an ass, clothed in a toga, holding a book, and with these words beneath: "The God of the Christians" (_Apol._, 16; _Ad. Nat._, 11, 14; Tacitus, _Hist._, v., 3). In the Palace of the Cæsars a rough sketch of a crucified man with an ass's head was found (_Hist. Photographs_, No. 107, Oxf., 1870; _Univ. Quart._, July, 1879, p. 338). [97:2] Origen, _Against Celsus_, viii., ch. 75; _Apol._, ch. 29, 35, and 39; Tertullian, _Concerning Idol._, ch. 17; _De Cor. Mil._, i., c. 15. [97:3] _Cf._ Luke, xxi., 16. [97:4] Hence all the hatred and prejudice of the Romans for the Jews were turned against the Christians. Gibbon, ii., 6; Gieseler, i., p. 101. [98:1] Origen declared that the number of Christian martyrs was small and easily counted. _Celsum_, c. 3. [98:2] Gibbon, ii., ch. 16; Uhlhorn, 234, 235. [98:3] Moeller, i., 193. [99:1] Tacitus, _Ann._, xv., 44. It seems to be very probable that persecutions by the Roman government occurred earlier than this. 1 Pet.; Rev. ii., 13; xx., 4. [99:2] Schiller, Lipsius, and Hausrath. [99:3] Notably Merivale. [99:4] Hardy, Uhlhorn, Ramsay, Allard, and Harnack.