[165:1] Acts xviii. 2.  Suetonius in Claud. (c. 25), says—­“Judaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantes Roma expulit.”  The words Christus and Chrestus seem to have been often confounded, and it has been thought that the historian here refers to some riotous proceedings among the Jews in Rome arising out of discussions relative to Christianity.  These disturbances took place about A.D. 53.  It is remarkable that even in the beginning of the third century the Christians were sometimes called Chrestiani.  Hence Tertullian says—­“Sed et cum perperam Chrestianus pronunciatur a vobis, nam nec nominis certa est notitia penes vos, de suavitate vel benignitate compositum est.”  “Apol.” c. iii.  See also “Ad Nationes,” lib. i. c. 3.

[165:2] See Greswell’s “Dissertations,” iv. p. 233.

[165:3] Eusebius, ii. 23.

[166:1] “Certi enim esse debemus, si quos latet per ignorantiam literature secularis, etiam ostiorum deos apud Romanos, Cardeam a cardinibus appellatam, et Forculum a foribus, et Limentinum a limine, et ipsum Janum a janua.”  Tertullian, “De Idololatria,” c. 15.  See also the same writer “Ad Nationes,” ii. c. 10, 15; and “De Corona,” 13.

[166:2] 2 Tim. iii. 12.  Cyprian touches upon the same subject in his Treatise on the “Vanity of Idols,” c. 2.

[167:1] The Christians were familiar with the idea of the conflagration of the world, and there is much plausibility in the conjecture that, as they gazed on the burning city, they may have given utterance to expressions which were misunderstood, and which awakened suspicion.  “Some,” says Dean Milman, “in the first instance, apprehended and examined, may have made acknowledgments before a passionate and astonished tribunal, which would lead to the conclusion that, in the hour of general destruction, they had some trust, some security, denied to the rest of mankind; and this exemption from common misery, if it would not mark them out in some dark manner, as the authors of the conflagration, at all events would convict them of that hatred of the human race so often advanced against the Jews.”—­Milman’s History of Christianity, ii. 37, 38.

[167:2] Tacitus, “Annal.” xv. 44.

[167:3] Heb. xii. 4.

[167:4] Heb. x. 25.

[168:1] 1 Pet. iv. 12.

[168:2] 1 Pet. iv. 17.

[168:3] Tertullian, “Ad Nationes,” i. 7.

[168:4] See “De Mortibus Persecutorum,” c. 2, and Sulpitius Severus, lib. ii. p. 139; Edit.  Leyden, 1635.

[168:5] Dan. ix. 27.

[169:1] Matt. xxiv. 2, 15, 16, 34; Mark xiii. 2, 14, 30; Luke xxi. 6, 20, 21, 24, 32.

[169:2] See Euseb. iii. 31.

[169:3] Acts xvii. 7.

[169:4] Euseb. iii. 20.

[169:5] Matt. xiii. 55.  See Greswell’s “Dissertations,” ii. 114, 121, 122.

[170:1] Matt, xxvii. 57; Mark xv. 43.

[170:2] Acts xiii. 7.

[170:3] Phil. iv. 22.