[249:1] Such as we find described in Deut. xxxi. 10-12.

[249:2] In Greek [Greek:  ekklesia].  The reference in the text is to its ecclesiastical use, for in the New Testament it sometimes signifies a mob.  See Acts xix. 32.

[249:3] Acts xi. 22, xv. 4.

[249:4] Acts xxi. 20, [Greek:  posai muriades]—­literally, “how many tens of thousands.”

[249:5] One of these is mentioned Acts xii. 12.

[249:6] Acts xiii. 1.

[249:7] Acts ix. 31.  The true reading here is, “Then had the church ([Greek:  ekklesia]) rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria.”  This reading is supported by the most ancient manuscripts, including ABC; by the Vulgate, and nearly all the ancient versions; including the old Syriac, Coptic, Sahidic, Ethiopian, Arabic of Erpenius, and Armenian; and by the most distinguished critics, such as Kuinoel, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Alford, and Tregelles.  It is likewise sustained by the authority of what is believed to be by far the most valuable cursive MS. in existence.  See Scrivener’s “Codex Augiensis,” Introd. lxviii., and p. 425.  Cambridge, 1859.

[250:1] John xvii. 21.

[250:2] Eph. iv. 16.

[250:3] See Col. ii. 19.

[251:1] Acts viii. 14.

[251:2] Acts xi. 22.  “No notion is more at variance with the spirit of apostolic Christianity than that of societies of Christians existing in the same neighbourhood, but not in communion with each other, and not under a common government.”—­Litton, p. 450.

[251:3] 2 Cor. viii. 19.

[251:4] Period I. sec. iii. chap. i. p. 214.

[251:5] “That the Church did really derive its polity from the synagogue is a fact upon the proof of which, in the present state of theological learning, it is needless to expend many words.”—­Litton’s Church of Christ, p. 254.

[251:6] See Selden, “De Synedriis,” lib. ii. c. 5; Lightfoot’s “Works,” iii. 242, and xi. 179.  Josephus says that Moses appointed only seven judges in every city.  “Antiq.” book iv. c. 8, Sec. 14.  See also “Wars of the Jews,” ii. c. 20, Sec. 5.

[252:1] Luke xxii. 66; Acts v. 21, vi. 15.  See also Prideaux, part ii. book vii., and Lightfoot’s “Works,” ix. 342.

[252:2] Matt. xvi. 21, xxvi. 59; Mark xv. 1.  See also Lightfoot’s “Works,” iv. 223.

[252:3] 1 Chron. xxiv. 4, 7-18.

[252:4] Acts v. 34.

[252:5] As they represented the people, and were probably twenty-four in number, there may be a reference to them in Rev. iv. 4.

[252:6] Matt. v. 22.

[253:1] Deut. xvii. 8-10; 2 Chron. xix. 8-11; Ps. cxxii. 5.

[253:2] Acts ix. 1, 2, 14.

[253:3] Acts ii. 14, 41, 42, iv. 4, 32, 33, 35, v. 14, 42, vi. 6, 7, viii. 14.

[253:4] Acts xiii. 1, 3.

[253:5] Titus i. 5.

[253:6] 1 Tim. iv. 14.

[253:7] In the same way the Puritans, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, frequently held meetings in London during the sittings of Parliament.  See Collier, vii. 33, 64.