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GENERAL INDEX.

(The figures in parenthesis indicate the year when the person lived or flourished.)

Aaron, the High Priest, John the Baptist

of the family of, 66.

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;

112.

Abulpharagius (1256), 192.

"Accommodation," a mode of construing
scripture, 165.

Acosta, Father (1640), 439.

Actæon, 437.

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.

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also account of Peter and Simon
Magus before Nero, 125-127.

Acts of Philip, 415; abstract of, 140.

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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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