Amphilochius, Bp of Iconium, his time and works, ii. 472;
a catalogue of books ascribed to him, 472; his zeal against
Arians, and other heretics, unjustifiable, 473, 474
Ananus the younger, high-priest, a Sadducee, i. 45, 69;
puts St. James and others to death by his council, 45
Anatolius, Bp of Laodicea in Syria, his history and works,
ii. 76 to 78; his testimony to the scriptures, 78, 79
Anatolius, master of Jamblichus, ii. 78

Anatolius, præfect of Illyricum in the time of Constantius,
a zealous Gentile, and an author, and much commended
by Eunapius and Libanius, iv. 384, 385
Andragathias, a philosopher; Theodore of Mopsuestia and
Chrysostom studied under him, ii. 526

Andrew, Bp of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, his time and com-
mentary upon the Revelation, iii. 43, 44
Anencletus, an early bishop of Rome, i, 291
Angelics, i. 587, 588

Angels, an opinion of many of the ancient Christians con-
cerning the occasion of their fall, ii. 73, 103, 277
Anicetus, Bp of Rome, i. 325, 356

Annas and Caiaphas, high-priests, i. 209

Anonymous author of the second epistle ascribed to Clement
of Rome, written probably in the third century, i.
303, 304

Anonymous author of Quaestiones et Responsiones et ortho-
doxos, ascribed to Justin Martyr, i. 343
Anonymous author of the epistle to Diognetus, i. 349
Anonymous author against Artemon, i. 485

Anonymous author of the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas,
i. 578, 579; his testimony to the scriptures, 579
Anonymous author concerning Discipline, ii. 32
Anonymous author concerning Shows, ii. 32

Anonymous author in praise of Martyrdom, ii. 33

Anonymous author against the Novatian Heretic, ii. 34

Antipodes, denied by Lactantius, ii. 277; believed by
Mani, 166

Antonia, widow of Drusus, her excellent character, i. 128
Antonia, the castle at Jerusalem, described, i. 58

Arrius Antoninus, proconsul of Asia, how he treated the
Christians, and the time of his persecution, iv. 33, 34
Antoninus the pious, his time, and excellent character, iv. 68;
was favourable to the Christians, 68; his edict to the states
of Asia, 69; the genuineness of it asserted, 70, 71, and.
105; he wrote also in favour of the Christians to the
Thessalonians, Athenians, and all the Greeks in general, 70
Antoninus, (Marcus, the philosopher) his time and character,
iv. 72, 73; his passage concerning the Christians in his
Meditations, with notes and observations, 74 to 78; a
general account of the persecutions in his reign, and that
he was not friendly to the Christians, and the reasons of it,
78 to 81, 473; an account of the martyrdom of Polycarp,
and others, at Smyrna, in the year 168, 82 to 84; the martyrs
at Lyons in the year 177, 84 to 91; remarks upon that
history, 91 to 94; a general account of a remarkable de-
liverance obtained by him in Germany, in the year 174,
95 to 106; that deliverance ascribed by some to the
prayers of a legion of Christians in his army, afterwards
called the Thundering, or Thunderbolt legion, 95, 96; ob-
servations upon that history, 96 to 104; a summary of the
arguments upon that subject, 104 to 106

Apelles, a follower of Marcion, i. 431, 445; ii. 493; his
gospel, 562; received the New Testament in general,
iii. 132; his time, iv. 639; his connection with Philu
mene, 640; the story of his incontinence false, ibid; did
not discourage inquiry, 641; of his writings, 642; his
peculiar principles, 642 to 644; what scriptures he re-
ceived, 645 to 647

Apocalypse of Elijah, ii. 562

Heretics, ii. 36

Anonymous author of a Computation of Easter, ii. 39

Anonymous author of a tract concerning the true circum-
cision, ii. 60, 148

Anonymous anthor of a book in verse against the Marcionites,
ii. 92; extracts out of it, ibid.

Anonymous author of the Acts of Saturninus and others,
ii. 298

Anonymous Arian author of a commentary upon the book of
Job, ii. 313

Anonymous Arian author of a discourse in Augustine's works,
ii. 313

Anonymous author of a History of the Manichees, ii. 148
Anonymous author of The morality of the New Testament

digested under various heads; quoted, iii. 112

Anonymous writer against the Christians at the beginning of
Dicclesian's persecution, of whom Lactantius gives an
account, iii. 252, 253

Anthimus, Bp of Nicomedia, his martyrdom, ii. 110, 113
Anthimus, Bp of Tyana in Cappadocia, contemporary, with
Basil, i. 599

Antichrist, opinions concerning him, ii. 73, 94

Antioch, Bishops of that church from the apostles to Theo-
philus the sixth Bishop, i. 383; who was succeeded by
Maximin, and he by Serapion the eighth, 414; their suc-
cessors enumerated to the year 260, i. 580; the great pre-
rogatives of that city, that the disciples were first called
Christians there, ii. 612; the number of Christians there
in the time of Chrysostom, and of the poor maintained by
that church, and the house to be seen where St. Paul
dwelt, 614; Christian assemblies more numerous there
than at Constantinople, ibid; and see Councils
Antipater, eldest son of Herod the Great, concerned in the
slaughter of the infants at Bethlehem, i. 186; see likewise
154; his design to poison his father, 187, 190; the time
of his last journey to Rome settled, 188, 189; his death,
187, 232

APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, not quoted by the apostolical fathers;
i. 289, 303, 313, 324; nor by Irenæus nor Tertullian,
iii. 131; forged by Heretics, i. 358; how quoted by
Clement of Alexandria, 407 to 409; much despised by
Christians, 558; in some of them a future state clearly
mentioned, 560; few or none of them composed before
the beginning of the second century, except the gospel
according to the Hebrews, iii. 132; the Acts of Paul and
Thecla must have been composed before the end of the
first century, or in the beginning of the second, ibid.;
Jewish apocryphal books said to be referred to in the New
Testament, i. 557, 558; how they are quoted by Origen,
551; by Cyprian, ii. 29, 30; Christian apocryphal books
not quoted as of authority, by Dionysius of Alexandria,
i. 650; not quoted by Cyprian, ii. 29; nor by Novatus,
65; nor by Methodius, 109; used by the Manichees,
227; what they were, 229, 230; a definition of such
books, 228; forged by Leucius, 230; remarks upon
them, 231, 232; they confirm the history of the authentic
books of the New Testament, 230; iii. 131; used by the
Priscillianists, 512; rejected by Eusebius of Cæsarea, 388
to 395; and Athanasius, 400. Apocryphal books of the
Old Testament, quoted by Ambrose, Bp of Milan, 493,
494; but he rejects Christian apocryphal books, 494; no
notice taken of such books by Gaudentius, Bp of Brescia,
524; the controverted, or spurious, or apocryphal books
of the N. T. which are taken notice of by Eusebius, 386,388;
apocryphal books of the O. and N. T. mentioned by Jerom,
561, 565; much censured and condemned by him, 542,
550, 563 to 567; some of them composed with a view
to explain the New Testament, 563, 564; apocryphal
books of the Old and New Testament mentioned with
contempt by Augustine, 581; such books seldom quoted
by Gregory, Bp of Rome, 69; are of no authority, 75;
how quoted in the imperfect work, 64, 65; such books
in the early times of Christianity, afford no valid argu-
ment against the genuineness, or the authority of the

books of the New Testament now generally received,
131 to 134; but confirm it, iv. 639

Apollinaris (Claudius) Bp of Hierapolis in Phrygia, i. 439

to 441

Apollinarius, Bp of Laodicea in Syria, his time and family,
ii. 454, 455; his Apology for the Christian religion agamst
Porphyry, ibid, 456, 457, 458; his commentaries upon the
scriptures, and his other works, 456 to 458; his peculiar
opinions, 558 to 461; his works relating to those opinions,
462, 463; his character, 463; wrote against Dionysius of
Alexandria concerning the Millennium, i. 639
Apollonia, a virgin martyr at Alexandria, before the pub-
lication of Decius's edict against the Christians, iv. 192
Apollonius, a Roman senator, Christian, apologist, and
martyr, i. 444; his remarkable martyrdom, iv. 300, 301
Apollonius, an ecclesiastical man, who wrote against the
Montanists, his history, i. 479; different from Apollonius,
senator and martyr, 480; says that Christ commanded his
apostles to stay twelve years at Jerusalem after his ascen-
sion, ibid; received The Revelation, 481; Tertullian
wrote against him, 480

Apollonius, a stoic philosopher, in the time of M. Antoninus,
i. 442, 443

Apollonius, or Apollonides, reckoned among the followers of.
Artemon, i. 487

Apollonius Tyanaus, set up by Hierocles as a rival with our
Saviour, iv. 254 to 256; remarks upon his life written by
Philostratus, 260, &c. ; his obscurity for a good while, 259;
his letter to Titus, after the conquest of Judea, iii. 533
APOLOGIES (early) for the Christian religion: to the emperor
Adrian by Quadratus, i. 436; by Aristides, 487; to An-
toninus the pious, Justin Martyr's first apology, 342; to
M. Antoninus the philosopher, his second apology, ibid;
to the same emperor, apologies presented by Melito, bishop
of Sardis, 359; by Athenagoras, 378; by Cl. Apollinaris,
bishop of Hierapolis, 439; to the princes of this world by
Miltiades, 382. In the reign of Commodus, three books
to Autolicus, a learned heathen, by Theophilus bishop of
Antioch, 383; in the same reign the apology of Apollo-
nius in the senate, 444; in the reign of Severus, Ter-
tullian's celebrated apology to the Roman presidents, 416
to 418; and his apologetical discourse to Scapula, pro-
consul of Africa; beside his two books to the nations,
and many books of others, written in the first two cen-
turies, or the beginning of the third, against Jews and
Gentiles.

Apostles, sometimes used in a lower sense, as equivalent to
apostolical, i. 406; iii. 37.

APOSTLES, had the largest measure of the gifts of the spirit,
and therefore had the highest authority in the church,
i. 421; said to be commanded by Christ to stay twelve
years at Jerusalem after his ascension, 480; their employ-
ments before they followed Jesus, ii. 428; twelve in
number, and four evangelists, 620; said to be fourteen
apostles, 383; said to have chosen to themselves several
provinces of the world, 487; staid a good while in Judea
after Christ's ascension, ii 153; the time when they left
Judea to go and preach the gospel in other countries,
167 to 173; were all of the Jewish nation, i. 521; there
are no certain accounts of the places where many of them
preached after they left Judea, iii. 159; they did not all
die by martyrdom, ii. 366; iii. 159, 438. They only
under the New Testament write doctrinal and preceptive
books of authority, i. 636, 637. ii. 29, 375, 620. iii. 42,
52 to 54, 142, 147; the whole world committed to them,
ii. 612; not forward to write, 368; the usefulness of their
writings, 378, 379; their sincerity, 365; four were fisher-
men, two publicans, Peter chief, and two others also said
to be chiefs, 612; were illiterate, and mean, 613, 615; most
of them born in Galilee, iii. 13; the prerogatives of their
high office, ii. 612; one of which is, writing epistles to
the churches as masters, which should be of authority,

554; their just sentiments, and excellent philosophy,
615. St. Mark and St. Luke wrote, when their gospels
might be approved by apostles, 585
Apostolical benediction, a sermon, v. 212

Apostolical constitutions and canons. See Constitutions.
Apostolical fathers, do not quote apocryphal books, i. 324;
general observations upon their testimony to the books of
the New Testament, 334, 335

Apostolical men, known companions of apostles, (such as
Mark and Luke) may write historical books of authority,
i. 376, 407, 409, 420, 637

Apostolicon of Marcion, consisted of ten of the epistles of
St. Paul, iv. 617.

Apostolics, i. 588

Appeals, made to Rome from the provinces, i. 129
Apphianus, a martyr at Cæsarea, in Dioclesian's persecution,
iv. 256

Appion; author of a treatise upon the six day's work, i. 413
Applauses and acclamations, in use among the ancients,
i. 621, 622

Apthonius, a learned Manichee, ii. 152

Apuleius, of Madaura in Africa, his time and works, iv. 107;
his passages concerning the Christians, 107, 108; miracles
ascribed to him by heathen people, 109. iv. 254, 266; the
design of his work called, The Metamorphoses or Golden
Ass, iii. 108 to 110

Aquila and Priscilla, their history, iii. 278, 279

Aquila, author of a Greek version of the Old Testament in
the time of Adrian, i. 446

Aram, who meant by that name, ii. 527

Arator, his work entitled Apostolical history, in verse, com-
posed out of the book of The Acts, ii. 57.
Arbogastes, an account of him, iv. 389.
Arch of Titus at Rome, iii. 527, 533, 573
Archelaus, what part of his father's kingdom came to his
share, i. 10, 148; styled king in the New Testament,
ethnarch by Josephus; the consistency of this, i. 11; was
generally hated, ibid.; banished by Augustus to Vienna in
Gaul, 15, 160, 232; the duration of his government,
11, 160, 232

Archelaus, Bp in Mesopotamia, a work ascribed to him,
ii. 136. the character of that work, ibid. ; ascribed by some
to Hegemonius, 137; the time of it, ibid.; its antiquity,
138; he speaks like an Unitarian, ibid.; his testimony to
the scriptures, 138, 139; from that work ancient writers
against the Manichees took their accounts, 141, 142 ; ·
remarks upon it, 142 to 144

Aretas, successor of Obodas, king of Arabia, i. 151
Arethas, his commentary upon the Revelation, iii. 56
Aristides, an Athenian philosopher, and Christian. apologist,
i. 437

Aristides, a letter of Africanus to him, concerning the dif-
ferences in the two genealogies of Matthew and Luke,,
i. 513, 516

Aristides (Elius) the sophist, his time and works, iii. 156,
157; select passages from him, 157; passages concerning
the Christians, and illustrating the books of the New
Testament, 157 to 159; his character, 159, 160
Aristion, an elder, near the times of the apostles, i. 337, 338-
Aristo, of Pella in Palestine, i. 438-

Aristobulus, a Jewish writer, mentioned by Anatolius, and
said to be one of the seventy translators of the Old Testa-
ment, ii. 78

Arianism, compared to heathenism; i. 626; said to be the
worst of all Heresies, ii. 399; its time and rise, 303;
great increase, 304, 305; the occasion of the controversy,
306; countenanced by some Antenicene writers of the
church, 372; the Arian scheme of doctrine, v. 313 to 315;
objections against it, 315 to 317

Arians, persecute the Novatians, ii. 54; many of them dis-
disciples of Lucian, presbyter of Antioch, 115; divisions
among them, 308; their numerous synods and creeds,

i. 362. iv. 86, 88, 89; whether he was favoured with the gifts of the Spirit? 91

Audians, followers of Audius, of Mesopotamia, their history and sentiments, ii. 411, 412

ibid.; their want of moderation, 308, 309; said to be great persecutors, 399; the cruelty of a persecution raised by them, iii. 27; not allowed to be Christians by Athanasius, ii. 399; their writers, 311 to 321; free remarks upon their conduct in the time of Constantius, iv. 374 Arius, his letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia quoted, ii. 115; makes mention of the Manichees, 148; his history, 303, 305; his works, 305, 306; his character, 306; his opinions, 307; his and his follower's testimony to the scriptures, 309, 310; excommunicated by the council of Nice, and banished by Constantine, 350

Arnobius, his history, work, and time, iii. 244 to 247; his character, 247, 248; select passages from him, 248 to 252; his testimony to the scriptures, 253 10 255; a fine saying of his, 363

Arnobius, author of a commentary upon the Psalms, ii. 247, 255, 256

Arnold (Godfrey) his history of all Heresies, ii. 179 Arrian, who published the Enchiridion, and discourses of Epictetus, his time and character, iv. 47 to 49. Artemon, or Artemas, and his followers; an anonymous author against them, i. 485; they received the scriptures, 486 to 488. iv. 658; charges against them as corrupters. of the scriptures, weakened and confuted, i. 486 to 488; their sentiment the same as that of Paul of Samosata, 485, 625. Artemas, mentioned by Methodius, ii. 105; the time when he lived, iv. 659; believed Christ was a mere man, born of a virgin, 658

Ascension of Moses, an apocryphal book, how mentioned by Origen, i. 541, 557

Ascension of Isaiah, an apocryphal book, how mentioned by Jerom, ii. 562. See Isaiah

Asclepiades, Bp of Antioch after Serapion, i. 493 Asclepiodotus, or Asclepiades, reckoned among the followers of Artemon, i. 486, 487

Asiarchs, or chief men of Asia, who they were, i. 91 Asseman (Jos.) commended, ii. 480, 488, 490 Assessment, the nature of a Roman assessment, i. 142, 143; sometimes made in the territories of dependent princes, 149 to 151; there was an assessment made in Judea, at the time of our Saviour's birth, 140, 141, and 151 to 156; objections against that supposition considered, 156 to 160 Asterius Urbanus, author of a work against the Montanists, his history, i. 489, 490; his charity and moderation, 491; his testimony to the books of the New Testament, 490, 491

Asterius, an Arian author, his history and works, ii. 313; Marcellus of Ancyra wrote against him, 396

Asturius, a Roman senator, and a Christian, who buried in an honourable manner the body of Marinus, a martyr, in the time of Gallienus, iv. 199

Athanasian Creed, considered, v. 310, 311 Athanasius, Bp of Alexandria, his time, ii. 398; select passages from him, 399; his bitterness against the Arians, ibid.; condemns persecution, iv. 498, 499; his testimony to the scriptures, ii. 399; received all the books of the New Testament, which are commonly received now, and no other, 299 to 403; a bible sent by him to the emperor Constans, 402; the Synopsis of sacred scripture ascribed to him, not his, 403, 405; extracts out of it, for shewing the writer's testimony to the scriptures, 403 to 405; the truth of Athanasius's account of Meletius and his followers, disputed, ii. 129, 130; his catalogue of the books of the Old Testament, iii. 544; Julian's great enmity to him, iv. 343 to 345; quoted, v. 387 note 2, 408 note Athenagoras, an apologist for the Christian religion in the time of M. Antoninus, his history, works, and testimony to the scriptures, i. 377 to 381

Athenians, their character, i. 105, 106

Athenodorus, brother of Gregory, Bishop of Neocæsarea, i. 597, 6οι

Attalus, native of Pergamus, one of the martyrs at Lyons,

Auditors, among the Manichees, an account of them, ii. 156 to 158; needed purification after death, 198; their misery, 236

Augustan Writers, six in number, an account of them, iv. 250, 251

Augustine, Bp of Hippo Regius in Africa, his character of the Sibylline oracles, i. 420, 455; how long he was with the Manichees, ii. 149; his zeal for Manichæism, 149, 150, 237; by what arguments he was misled, 185, 186; his writings against them, 145; particularly against Faustus, 152; asserted free-will against them, 147, 197; commended, 236; his fine passages, shewing the genuineness and authority of the scriptures of the New Testament, 224 to 226; his charity and moderation toward the Manichees, 236, 237; his time, 576; his character, and compared with Jerom, 576; what acquaintance he had with the Greek language, 577; his testimony to the scriptures, 578 to 597; his judicious observations upon the conduct of St. Peter and St. Paul towards Jews and Gentiles, and towards each other, iv. 231 to 233; and his good sense acknowledged, 234. See also v. 514, 517; his excellent observations upon idols and heathen deities, iv. 245, note; select passages from him, ii. 596 to 599; a passage in him amended, 596; his quotations of the work called The Philosophy of Oracles, and remarks upon them, iv. 245 to 249; his account of the treatment given to heathen people by Christian magistrates, 403, 494; the occasion of writing his large work, Of the City of God, 482; quotations from him, v. 375, note, 377, 387, referred to, 394, 427; his account of the Heretics, Adamians, iv. 575; Cerdon, 587; Leucius, 625; the Montanists, 674

Augustus, his decree in favour of the Jews in Asia and Cyrene, i. 97, 98; several computations of his reign, 194; the nature of this title of Augustus, 198; his jest upon Herod for killing his sons, 183, 184

Aurelian, his treatment of Zenobia and Longinus, iv. 203 ; his time and character, 207; how the Christians were mentioned by him in a letter to the senate of Rome, 207, 208; his conduct towards Paul of Samosata, Bp of Antioch, i. 623. iv. 208; his persecution of the Christians, 208, 209

Authentic Letters, as used by Tertullian, explained, i. 425, 426

Autolicus, a learned heathen of the second century, i. 383, to whom Theophilus, bishop of Antioch, sent his Apology for the Christian religion, iv. 113

B

Babylas, Bp of Antioch, a martyr under Decius, iv. 192 Bacchanalia, prohibited by the Roman senate, i. 96 Bacchylus, Bp of Corinth, and writer in the second century, i. 445

Bagoas, an eunuch in the court of Herod the great, i. 152; bantered by Josephus, i. 153

Balduinus, (Fr.) his judicious observations upon Pliny's letter to Trajan concerning the Christians, iv. 20, 30; and upon Trajan's rescript, 30, note ; his remark upon the temper of Severus toward the Christians, 166; his observation concerning Papinian, 170, 171

Baluze (Stephen) quoted, ii. 326, 329 Baptism had its original from John, ii. 410; women not initiated among the Jews by baptism, v. 501, 502; Christian baptism, how misrepresented by Julian, 339, 340, by Zosimus, 402

Barcabbas, and Barcoph or Parcor, their prophecies were oriental books, and not forged by Basilides, iv. 556

Bar-Cepha, Moses, his time, i. 515

Barchochebas, a Jewish impostor, who set himself up for the
Messiah, in the time of Adrian, iii. 488, 555

Bardesanes, the Syrian, his age, and whether the same as the
Babylonian, ii. 442 to 444; his history and works, 440
to 442; composed 150 Psalms, in imitation of David's
Psalter, 442; believed the unity of God, iv. 520
Bar-Hebræus (Gregory) called Abulpharagius, his time, i. 507
Barnabas (St.) his history, and the character of the epistle
ascribed to him, i. 283, 284; mentioned by Jerom, 284;
ii. 560, 563; to whom that epistle was written, i. 284;
when written, ibid. ; not a part of canonical scripture though
genuine, ii. 370, 374, 375. iii. 144 to 148; how quoted
by Clement of Alexandria, i. 283. 406; by Origen, 283,
549; he was not an apostle, iii. 145 to 148; reckoned by
Clement of Alexandria an apostolical man, or an apostle,
in the lower sense of the word, i. 283, 406; not reckoned
an apostle by Theodoret, iii. 13; said by Tertullian to be
the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews, i. 426
Baronius, his misrepresentation of Pliny, i. 137; thought Cy-
renius was twice governor of Syria, 162
Barratier (J. B.) his judgment concerning the Constitutions,
ii. 425; his observations upon some works of Theodoret,
iii. 10.

Barsalas, surnamed Justus, Acts i. 23; a miracle wrought
upon him, related by Papias, i. 337

Bar-Salibi (Dionysius) Bp of Amida in Mesopotamia; his
time, i. 515

Bartholomew (St.) said to have preached the gospel in India,
and to have left there St. Matthew's gospel, i. 390
Baruch, not received as a canonical book by Jerom, ii.
541, 542

Basil, Bp of Ancyra, an Arian, or Semi-Arian, his history
and works, ii. 314

Basil, Bp of Cæsarea, in Cappadocia, his time and works, ii.
465, 466; scriptures received by him, 406; marks of respect
for them, 468; a passage of his relating to the inscrip-
tion of the epissle to the Ephesians considered, 466 to
468; his honourable testimony to Gregory Thaumaturgus,
i. 597; remarks upon it, 604
Basilides of Alexandria, next after Saturninus, his character,
iii. 358; see the Contents of his chapter, iv. his time,
and the account of his heresy, i. 437; iv. 584 to 586;
confuted by Agrippa Castor, i. 437; an examination
of several opinions attributed to him, iv. 586, 587; his
opinion concerning Christ, 588, 589; his sentiments ac-
cording to Beausobre, 540; his definition of faith, 545;
he believed that the soul only would be saved, 541; he is
said to have written a gospel, i. 438, 552. ii. 562, iv. 555 ;
probably this is his 24 books of commentaries, iv. 555;
falsely accused of believing the indifference of actions, and
of using magic, 542 to 544; the scriptures received by
him, 554 to 555; his followers are said to have used spu-
rious books, i. 559; the Basilidians resembled the Valen-
tinians in many respects, iv. 544; these accounts prove
that the knowledge of the scriptures was much diffused in
the world, 556

Basnage (S.) his solution concerning the different names of
Herodias's first husband, rejected, i. 213; quoted, with a
remark concerning him, ii. 130; his remarks upon the
prodigies preceding the destruction of Jesusalem, as re-
lated by Josephus, iii. 520; his judicious observations
upon the accounts of M. Antoninus's deliverance in Ger-
many, iv. 98

Bassianus, put to death by Constantine, ii. 340

Batricides, his peculiar opinion concerning Simon the just,
i. 225

Bayle, his remarks upon Phlegon, iv. 63; his observation
upon the agreement of Pagan and Christian persecutions,
253; upon the miracles ascribed to Apuleius, 266; a quo-
tation from his article Cainites, 521

Beausobre (J. de) his opinion of the author of the Testa-
ments of the twelve patriarchs, i. 457; quoted and com-

mended, i. 581, 584, 619. ii. 104, 349, 392, 450, 490,
519; his vindication of the Manichees from some asper-
sions cast upon them, ii. 158, 159; his observations upon
the Manichæan notion of the design of Christ's coming,
204, 205; his account of the Ebionites, and Nazarene
Christians, 235, noted; his history of the Manichees, and
his freedom of thinking commended, 234, and note ",
240 to 242; his sentiment concerning the epistle to the
Hebrews, 391, 392; his characters of Diodorus of Tarsus
and Theodore of Mopsuestia, 519; quoted, iii. 152. 206,
332, 352, and elsewhere; his observations on the Mar-
cionite notion of Christ's delivering the wicked in hell,
but leaving the good, iv. 600, 601; quoted, 519, 536,
537, 538, 540, 542, 591, 592, 640; v. 376, 427, and in
many other places

Beausobre and Lenfant, quoted, ii. 63, 69. v. 408

Bede (Venerable) his time and testimony to the scriptures,
iii. 78, 79

Bemarchius, his history of Constantine, which was favourable
to him, iv. 310

Bengelius (J.A.) quoted, iii. 30, 34

Benson (Dr. G.) quoted, i. 270, 572. ii. 287 note', 407
note *. iii. 252, 286, 293, 377 note, 429, 430, 431, 445,
446, 469. v. 417, and elsewhere

Bentley (Dr. R.) quoted, i. 476, 624. ii. 596. iii. 68; his
remarks upon Julian's ridicule of Christian baptism, iv.
340; his remarks upon Zosimus, 415

Bernice, her descent, i. 16, 18; envied her sister Drusilla,
17; her character, 18; respected by Titus, ibid. ; interceded
with her brother Agrippa, in behalf of Justus Tiberias,
i. 40; kept a vow at Jerusalem, 115; first married to her
uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, afterwards to Polemon, 16,
213, note c

Beryllus, Bp of Bostra, i. 495; his history and time, 524
Bexa (Theodore) his solution concerning Cyrenius's enrol
ment, i. 171; his judgment concerning the Revelation, 646;
quoted v. 377, 390, 534, 539

Bible, the origin of that word, iii. 137

Biblias, one of the martyrs at Lyons, iv. 87

Birth, natural, how the Manichees speak of it, ii. 194, 196
Biscoe, R. quoted, i. 262. iii. 259, 277, 279

Bishops, charged with pride by Jerom, iii. 572; their office
easy when slightly performed; but difficult if well per-
formed, 599. See also Christian clergy
Bishops and elders, at first all one, iii. 32
Blackwall (d.) quoted, i. 646, 647

Blandina, maid-servant, and martyr at Lyons, i. 361; her
grievous sufferings, and wonderful patience under them,
iii. 86 to 89

Blastus, a Valentinian, to whom Irenæus wrote a letter,
i. 363

Blondel (D.) his confutation of the opinion of Grotius con-
cerning the time of the Revelation, and St. John's banish-
ment in Patmos, iii. 222; quoted, 534, 544

Blood forbidden to be eaten, in Gen. ix. 4. v. 495
Boanerges, on what account our Lord gave that surname to
St. John, and his brother James, iii. 213, 214
Bonosus, bishop, and follower of Photinus, iii. 447
Bower (A.) remarks upon his account of the Manichees,
ii. 240 to 243; his history of the popes quoted, 447 note 8.
iii. 16, 19, 20

Brekel quoted, iv. 532

Britain, Christians there in the time of Eusebius of Cæsarea,
ii. 365; of Chrysostom, 614; of Theodoret, iii. 15; and
of Gregory, bishop of Rome, 73

Bruttius Præsens, his time, and his testimony to Domitian's
persecution, iv. 56 to 58

Buddas, a disciple of Mani, said to have taken that name
instead of Terebinthus, ii. 141; no bad design therein,
iii. 171; the same as Addas, ibid.; the common accounts of
him not to be relied upon, ibid.

Buddeus, J. Fr. quoted, ii. 546

Burial allowed to malefactors in Judea, i. 89

Burnet (Bishop) an observation of his, concerning persecutors, ii. 345

Burning the scriptures, and concerning traitors, in Dioclesian's persecution, ii. 293, 294

Byrrhus, captain of the guard to Nero, i. 128

C

Cæcilian, Bp of Carthage, charges against him by the Donatists, ii. 295, 296; was present at the council of Nice, 349

Cæsarea in Palestine, its inhabitants, i. 10, 101; a library erected there by Pamphilus, ii. 116, 120; it was repaired by Euxoius, Bp of that city, 120; made use of by Jerom, ibid. and Eusebius, 363; and Euthalius, iii. 38; destroyed before the middle of the seventh century, ii. 121 Caians, or Cair les, supposed a part of the Sethians, iv. 653; the accounts of them from Epiphanius and Irenæus, incredible, 652, 653; no sect ever called themselves by that name, or professed such principles, 654

Caiaphas, high priest when our Saviour was crucified, i. 79; called Joseph by Josephus, 216

Caius, adopted son of Augustus, his journey through Judea, i. 157

Caius or Gaius, to whom St. John wrote his third epistle, iii. 432.

Caius, his history and time, i. 481; said to have been a disciple of Irenæus, ibid.; did not receive the epistle to the Hebrews, as Paul's, ibid, 482, 484; did not receive the Revelation, 484, 485, 637; not certain that he was a Presbyter of Rome, 482, 483; the Dialogue with Proculus a Montanist, the only piece rightly ascribed to him, 482, 484; what he writes of the martyrdoms of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome, 482; how he reckons St. Paul's'epistles, 482 to 484; the reason why he did not receive the epistle to the Hebrews, considered, 483, 484

Calama, in Numidia, a disturbance there in the year 408, occasioned by Gentile worship, iv. 478, 479

Caligula, his attempt to set up his statue at Jerusalem, i. 54; favoured Herod Agrippa, 128

Calvin (J.) quoted, v. 390, 424

Calumnies upon the Primitive Christians, what they were, and how they may be accounted for, i. 378, 452. iii.4 86 to 488; the notice taken of them by Arnobius, ii. 251, 252; and by Lactantius, 268

Cambridge manuscript, character of the, ii. 17; the same with Stephens's second MS. 19

Camerarius. (Joach.) his judgment concerning The Revelation, i. 646

Canon, several senses of the word, iii. 138; that word, and Canonical, much used, denoting books of the highest au. thority, 138, 139

Canon of the O. T. the Jewish canon, received by Melito, i. 359; by Jerom, ii. 542, 579; by Rufinus, 578, 579; Augustine, 578 to 581; Chrysostom, 600, 601; Theodoret, iii. 10; Cosmas of Alexandria, 51; Gregory, Bp of Rome, 69; Leontius, 77; generally regarded by Christians, 48 to 50 Canon of the scriptures of the N. T. general observations upon it, iii. 142 to 144; how it has been formed, 148 to 150; not settled by any authority universally acknowledged among Christians in the time of Eusebius of Cæsarea, ii. 371; nor in the time of Augustine, 578; nor in the time of Cosmas of Alexandria, iii. 54; nor in the time of Cassiodorius, 61. See likewise 5, 17; nevertheless there was a general agreement among Christians upon this head, 61; nor were there any books received as sacred by Christians in former times, beside those now generally received by us, ibid. and 48, 49. 54, 77, 91

Authors, who had the same canon of the New Testament, with that which is generally received in our times; Athana sius, ii. 400, 403. Cyril of Jerusalem, excepting that he has not the Revelation, 409, 410. In like manner the

council of Laodicea, 415. Epiphanius has the same as ́ours, 417 ; so likewise Basil, 465, 466; Gregory Nazian zep 470, 471; Amphilochius, 473; Gregory Nyssen, 474, 475; Jerom, 548, 561; Rufinus, 573; the third council of Carthage, 574, 575; Augustine, 578 to 579; Innocent I. bishop of Rome, 628; Isidore of Pelusium, iii. 7; Cyril of Alexandria, 9; Cassian, 17; Prosper of Aquitain, 21; Eucherius, Bp of Lyons, 29, 30; Sedulius, 34; Leo, Bp of Rome, 34, 35; Salvian, 36; Dionysius, called the Areopagite, 41; Gelasius, Bp of Rome, 42; Andrew, 43, 44; Facundus, 55, 56; Arethas, 57; Cassiodorius, 61, 62; the author of the Imperfect Work, 66 ; Photius, 82; Oecumenius, 84, 85; Nicephorus Callisti, 90 to 92; Theophylact, excepting the Revelation, 87, 88 Canterbury (The Archbishop of) his sermon quoted with respect, iv. 398

Canticles (The book of) quoted by Ephrem, ii. 481; Pacian, 491; Ambrose of Milan, 493; Commentaries upon it by Rheticius, 441, and by Triphyllus, 442; received by Paulinus, 629; Theodoret, iii. 9, 10; Arethas, 57; the author of the Imperfect Work, 64; Gregory, Bp of Rome, 69; is in the catalogue of Dionysius called the Arcopagite, 41; in the Alexandrian MS. 45. See Solomon Capernaum, called our Lord's own city, and why, ii. 612 Capito, collector of the Roman tribute in Judea, i. 50,

note a

Capitolinus (Jul.) his account of M. Antoninus's deliverance in Germany, iv. 102

Captain of the temple, a Jewish officer, i. 26, 58, 59 Captain of the guard, at Rome, prisoners sent to him from the provinces, i. 129; sometimes there were two, 130 Carabas, a distracted fellow at Alexandria, i. 88 Caracalla, a story told of him, when young, by Spartian, iv. 166; had a Christian nurse, ibid. ; the Christians had an advantage by his act of indemnity, 168

Carpocrates, an account of him from ancient authors, iv. 556, 557; his time, 557; he and his followers believed that the world was made by angels, 558; that Jesus Christ was born of Joseph and Mary, ibid.; accusations against them, 559,560, 561; the improbability of these accusations, 562; a general view of what they believed, 560; what scriptures they received, 563

Carter, Mrs. Elix. her translation of Epictetus quoted and commended, iv. 46, 47, 49, 50

Carthage, The third Council of, its time, and the scriptures received by the bishops there assembled, ii. 574, 575 Casaubon (J.) a remark of his upon a passage in Ignatius, i. 323; his observations upon Lampridius quoted and commended, iv.55

Casley (D.) his remarks upon a passage in Augustine, ii. 595; quoted, iii. 45

Cassian (John) his country, works, and testimony to the scriptures, iii. 16 to 18; reckoned an opposer of the Augustinian doctrine, 18; how he treats Nestorius, and others called heretics, ibid.

Cassianus (Julius) or Cassian, an heretical writer of the second century, mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, i. 408; one of the Docetæ, who argued from the Old as well as the New Testament, iv. 681; his opinions and

country, 682

Cassiodorius, (M. A.) Senator, his time and works, and testimony to the scriptures, iii. 59 to 62; à Latin translation of the Adumbrations of Clement of Alexandria, made by his order, i. 399, 404

Castle, at Jerusalem, see Antonia

CATALOGUES of the books of the Old Testament; Melito's, i. 359; Jerom's, ii. 539, 540; three such catalogues taken notice of by Eusebius, 393; such catalogues of several recited, namely, from the book of Ecclesiasticus, Philo, the New Testament, Josephus, Melito, Origen, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Epiphanius, 543 to 545 CATALOGUES of the books of the Old and New Testament in Origen, i. 532 to 542; Athanasius, ii. 400; in the Synopsis