(The figures in parenthesis indicate the year when the person lived or flourished.)
Aaron, the High Priest, John the Baptist
Abbot, Prof., doubtful passages, 213. Abgarus, king of Edessa, first picture
of Christ sent to, 223; correspondence with Christ, 327; same probably a forgery, 336.
Abraham, 64, 65, 282, 283, 297, 369, 370, 425; worshiped by heathen emperors;
Abulpharagius (1256), 192.
"Accommodation," a mode of construing scripture, 165.
Acosta, Father (1640), 439.
Acts of Andrew and Matthias, 140. Acts of the Apostles, 61, 118, 119, 140, 212,
245, 328, 329, 331: when brought into general circulation, 483; not historical, 25, 415-419; not referred to by the apos tolic fathers, 61; Cambridge MS. contains 600 interpolations, 212; not in Marcion's N. T., 274; critically consid- ered, 415-419; referred to in Murato- rian fragment, 464; reference to pas- sages in,118, 328, 329, 398; its relation to Roman Catholicism, 449, 450, 478, 482.
Acts of the Apostles, by Lucius, 415. of Barnabas, 140.
of the Holy Apostle Thomas, 140. of John, 100.
44 of St. Mary, 100.
also account of Peter and Simon Magus before Nero, 125-127.
Acts of Philip, 415; abstract of, 140.
of Pilate, 142, 144, 202-210, 211-241, 243, 247, 249. 313, 314, 374-376, 404. 421; one of the three most an cient gospels of the 2d century ex- tant, 144; abstract of the gospel and its standing with the fathers, 202-210; compared with the canon- ical gospels, 211-241; mentioned by Justin Martyr, 308, 313, 314; written before any of the canonical gospels, 339; contains the most reliable ac- Count of the crucifixion, 373; Eras- mus thought it was written before Luke, 386; contains the shortest and probably the oldest accounts of the miracles attributed to Christ, 214-224; newly discovered Acts of Pilate, 249, 250.
Eons, 251, 367, 424. Africanus, see Julius.
Agrippa Castor (130), 252, 254; sketch of, 257; wrote against Basilides, his writ ings lost or destroyed, 257, 451. Agrippa the Great, was brother of Hero- dias, 19.
Ahaz, king of Judah, 161.
Albinus, procurator of Judea, 38.
Alcestis, rescued from death by Hercules, 437.
Alexander Abonotichus [2d century] 113; sketch of him by Lucian, 128, 129, 321. Alexander, bishop of Rome, 480. Alexander, Dr., on ante-Hieronymian versions of N. T.. 347.
Alexander, era of, 175.
Alexander, statue of, 321.
Alexandrians, Epistle to (supposed to be Epistle to the Heb.), 464. Alfonso Sousa, 199.
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