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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[1786] For this prediction of Zoroaster, see Smith’s Dict. of the Bible, art. Magi.
[1789] Hos. xi. 1; Matt. ii. 15.
[1790] Burning to death was the punishment of those convicted of sacrilege and the practice of magic. It was inflicted also on slaves for grave offences against their masters.
[1791] Matarea, or Matariyeh, the site of Heliopolis or On, is a little way to the N.E. of Cairo. Ismail Pasha is said to have presented, on his visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the tree and the ground surrounding it to the Empress of the French. For some interesting particulars about the tree, see a paragraph, by B.H.C. (i.e., Mr. B. Harris Cowper, who has translated the Apocryphal Gospels), in the Leisure Hour for 2d November, 1867.
[1794] Perhaps the correct reading is fornice, archway, and not fornace.
[1795] [So the Latin; but the Greek word in the Gospels is equivalent to “zealot.” See Rev. Vers. in the lists of the Apostles.—R.]
[1796] Matt. x. 4, etc.
[1797] Luke ii. 42-47. [A comparison of the two narratives is very suggestive. The Evangelist Luke does not present any such monster of precocity, nor does he adventure into discussions “upon the sciences.”—R.]
[1798] Ps. cx. 1; Matt. xxii. 42-45. [The Latin reads: vestigiis pedum tuorum, “the footsteps of thy feet.” The original term, “footstool,” has evidently been misunderstood by some transcriber.—R.]
[1799] The scripulum was the twenty-fourth part of the as. It is likely here put for the motion of a planet during one hour. Pliny, N. H., ii. 10, uses the word to signify an undefined number of degrees, or parts of a degree.
[1801] Matt. iii. 13-17; Luke iii. 21-23.
The Gospel of Nicodemus: Part I.—The Acts of Pilate: First Greek Form.
[1802] [The works which precede sought to supplement the evangelical narrative in regard to the early life of our Lord, and Mary His mother; those which follow are also supplementary, but refer to the closing events.—R.]
[1803] The 15th year of Tiberius, reckoning from the death of Augustus, was a.d. 29, a.u.c. 782, the first year of the 202d Olympiad, in the consulship of C. Fugus Geminus and L. Rubellius Geminus, and the 34th year of Herod Antipas. Other readings are: In the eighteenth year—In the nineteenth year. [Compare the Acts of Pilate in both forms. The variations here correspond with the various theories of the length of our Lord’s ministry. The text seems to confuse the statement of Luke (Luke 3.1) respecting the beginning of the public ministry with the time of our Lord’s death.—R.]
[1804] There is in themss. great variation as to these names.
[1805] Lit., and wishes to do away with it.
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