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[81] [A reference in which Kaye sees no reason to doubt that the Apology was written during the reign under the emperor. See Kaye’s Tertullian, p. 49.]
[82] [Elucidation IV.]
[83] As = 2-1/8 farthings. Sestertium = £7, 16s. 3d.
[84] Slaves still bearing the marks of the scourge.
[85] Anubis.
[86] Fabulous monsters.
[87] [Another example of what Christianity was doing for man as man.]
[88] [See Elucidation VII., p. 58, infra in connection with usages in cap. xxxix.]
[89] [Inconsistent this with Gibbon’s minimizing theory of the number of the Christian martyrs.] Elucidation VIII.
[90] [Confirming the statement of Justin Martyr. See Vol. I., p. 187, note 1, and p. 193, this Series.]
[91] Phaethon.
[92] Atys or Attis.
[93] Paris.
[94] Pluto.
[95] [“Sacred hats and purple robes and incense fumes” have been associated with the same crimes, alas! in widely different relations.]
[96] [Caricatures of the Crucifixion are extant which show how greedily the heathen had accepted this profane idea.]
[97] [A premonition of the Labarum.]
[98] [As noted by Clement of Alexandria. See p. 535, Vol. II., and note.]
[99] Onocoites. If with Oehler, Onochoietes, the meaning is “asinarius sacerdos” (Oehler).
[100] Referring evidently to the Scriptures; and showing what the Bible was to the early Christians.
[101] [Kaye, p. 168. Remarks on natural religion.]
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