In the same way Gallio is correctly described as _proconsul_ of Achaia.[240] For though this province belonged to the Emperor for some years before A.D. 44, and was independent after A.D. 66, it belonged to the Senate in the interval, when the writer referred to it. And an inscription, recently found at Delphi, shows that Gallio was proconsul in A.D. 52, which agrees well with the chronology of the Acts.[241] Equally correct is the title of _governor_ or _procurator_, applied to both Felix and Festus.[242] While it is satisfactory to add that the title _lord_, addressed to the Emperor Nero, which used to be thought rather a difficulty, as it was not known to have been adopted till the time of Domitian (A.D. 81-96), has now been found in papyri of the age of Nero.[243] [Footnote 240: Acts 18. 12.] [Footnote 241: Palestine Exploration Quarterly, July, 1913.] [Footnote 242: Acts 19. 38; 23. 26; 26. 30.] [Footnote 243: Acts 25. 26; Deissman, New Light on the New Testament, 1907, p. 80.] Again, Herod (_i.e._, Agrippa I.) shortly before his death, is styled _king_.[244] Now we learn from other sources that he had this title for the last three years of his government (A.D. 41-44), though there had been no king in Judæa for the previous thirty years, nor for many centuries afterwards. [Footnote 244: Acts 12. 1; Josephus, Antiq., xviii. 6, xix. 5.] Moreover, his son is also called _King_ Agrippa, though it is implied that he was not king of Judæa, which was governed by Festus, but of some other province. Yet, strange to say, he seems to have held some official position in regard to the Jews, since Festus _laid Paul's case before him_, as if he were in some way entitled to hear it.[245] And all this is quite correct; for Agrippa, though King of Chalcis, and not Judæa, was yet (being a Jew) entrusted by the Emperor with the management of the Jewish Temple and Treasury, and the choice of the High Priests, so he was a good deal mixed up in Jewish affairs.[246] And this, though only a trifle, is interesting; because a late writer, who had taken the trouble to study the subject, and find out the position Agrippa occupied, is not likely to have shown his knowledge in such a casual way. Scarcely anyone notices it. And equally correct is the remarkable fact that his sister _Bernice_ used to act with him on public occasions.[247] [Footnote 245: Acts 25. 13, 14.] [Footnote 246: Josephus, Antiq., xx., 1, 8, 9.] [Footnote 247: Acts 25. 23; Josephus, Wars, ii. 16; Life, xi.]