[Footnote 99: εὐσεβεῖς. Often applied by the Jews of this time to those who observed their usages, but were not full proselytes.] [Footnote 100: _i. e._ “on which they bear rule”--a well-known astrological phrase.] [Footnote 101: _i. e._ “rises and sets with them.”] [Footnote 102: This cannot mean that it is one of the days when the evil stars rule. Probably some words like “which God has chosen” are omitted.] [Footnote 103: Did Alcibiades or Elchasai consider Trajan’s successful campaign against the Parthians a calamity?] [Footnote 104: Ἄρκτων, lit., “of the Bears.” Thus Cruice. But it is probably another case of putting plurals for singulars.] [Footnote 105: It is said that this is an unfulfilled prediction which fixes the date of Elchasai’s book. If, however, we take Trajan’s invasion of Parthia at A.D. 113, which seems the most likely date, the rebellion of the Jews in the Cyrenaica, Egypt and Cyprus broke out within the three years mentioned and raged until it was suppressed by Marcius Turbo and Lusius Quietus, about the end of 116. The book may therefore well be later than this.] [Footnote 106: A possible allusion to Matt. vii. 6.] [Footnote 107: For the reason of this omission see Introduction, _supra_.] [Footnote 108: μηδὲ σιωπήσας, “when I have not kept silence about”--a roundabout phrase.] [Footnote 109: This promise is fulfilled by the peroration of Book X. This shows the close connection between the Summary and the first nine Books, and proves that the author of Book X, if not Hippolytus himself, was at any rate some one who wished to be taken for him.] [Footnote 110: The quotations in this chapter from the book of Elchasai were doubtless taken from a Greek translation of that work brought to Rome by Alcibiades.]