Nicolaitans, Hippolytus wrote against them, i. 496
Nicolas, one of the seven deacons, divers opinions concern-
ing him, i. 497

Nicolas of Damascus, his character, and his embassy to
Augustus, i. 152, 156; was intimate with Herode 157,
162; magnified the success of his embassy, 191
Nitocris, her good character, iv. 224

Noah, (The precepts of) v. 495; observations upon them,
495 to 498

Noetus, his time, history, and opinions, i. 581 to 586; many
of the same sentiment, 583 to 585; the holy scriptures
received by them, 585, 586; for his time see also ii. 59
Nonnus, his paraphrase of St. John's gospel, iii. 5
Noris, (Cardinal) quoted and commended, i. 19
Novatianism, it's rise, and the concern which Dionysius of
Alexandria had with it, i. 613

NOVATIANS, condemned second marriages, ii. 49; baptized
such as came to them from the Catholics, 50; their
respect for martyrs, ibid. ; their sufferings from the Arians,
54; numerous in several countries, 55; favoured by Fa-
bius, Bp of Antioch, and Marcion, Bp of Arles, 52; how
treated by Constantine, 53; by Julian, 54; by Theo-
dosius, ibid; by Cyril of Alexandria, 57; by Innocent
and Celestinus of Rome, ibid.; texts of scripture alleged by
them as favouring their sentiment, concerning the treat-
ment of great sinners, 63; their sentiments concerning
the holy scriptures, 65. Eminent men among them, whose
names may be found at the proper places in this Index :
Ablabius, Acesius, Agelius, Chrysanthus, Eusebius, Leontius,
Marcion, Mark, Paul, Rusticola, Sisinnius, Sympronian,
Theopemplus. That Socrates and Sozomen were
Novatians, 57

not

Novatus, or Novatianus, presbyter of Rome, ii. 133; reck-
oned among those called Heretics, i. 527, 626; his
episcopal ordination, ii. 42; Cornelius's account of it,
43, 44; remarks upon that account, 44 to 47; the first
antipope, 41; sends letters and deputies to foreign churches,
ibid.; the time of their arrival at Carthage, 52; he is said
to have suffered martyrdom, 47; his peculiar opinion
concerning the treatment of such as had lapsed, i. 613;
ii. 48; the time of his taking up that opinion, ii. 50 to 52;
said to be orthodox upon the Trinity, 49, 54; his works,
57; the time of writing his treatise of the Trinity, or of
the rule of faith, 58; his character, 60, 61; his tes-
timony to the scriptures of the New Testament, 61 to 65;
that his name was Novatus, and not Novatian, 43, 68, 69,
132 to 135

Novatus, presbyter at Carthage, said to be the chief author of
the schism at Rome, but without reason, ii. 51, 52,
134, 135

Numenius, a Pythagorean philosopher, was well acquainted
with the books of Moses and the prophets, and has allego-
rized some parts of them; but his time is uncertain, and
he has not referred to any books of the New Testament,
iv. 205 to 207

Nye, (Stephen) mistakes of his concerning the Manichees,
ii. 177,2 222

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Oath taken by the Jews to Cæsar and Herod, i. 153; was the
same with St. Luke's enrolment, 153 to 156, 158, 159
Obodas, king of Arabia, differences between him and Herod,
i. 151; succeeded by Aretas, ibid.

Oecumenius, his time and works, and testimony to the scrip-
tures, iii. 83 to 85

Olympiodorus, author of a Roman history, his time, work,
and extracts from it, and its character, iv. 396, 397
Olympius, some time prime minister to Honorius, his cha-
racter from Zosimus, iv. 411

Olympius, a learned and zealous Gentile at Alexandria,
iv 470 to 472

Onesimus knew St. Paul before he came to him at Rome,
iii. 351

Onesiphorus, at what time he came to St. Paul at Rome,
iii. 305

Ophians, or Ophites, an account of them from Irenæus,
Theodoret, Epiphanius, and others, iv. 655; Origen's
account of them, with observations, 656, 657; can scarce
be considered as Christian beretics, 657,

Optatus, of Milevi, his time and character, and testimony to
the scriptures, ii. 491, 492; was of opinion. that every
man is born with an unclean spirit, i. 570, 571.
Oracle, a fictitious heathen oracle in 398, foretelling the
period of the Christian religion, iv. 476

Order of Heretics, iv. 511; in Irenæus, Epiphanius, Philas--
ter, and Augustine, 534, 583

Orilasius, physician to Julian, his history and works, iv..
386, 387

ORIGEN, see the contents of his chapter, i. 519; went to
Rome, 521; allowed his homilies to be taken down in
writing, 524; his confessions and sufferings, ibid.; see also,
iv. 192; his quotations of Phlegon, 59, 60, 61;. what
Porphyry says of him, 213; the number of his works,
i. 524, 525; what of them now extant, 525, 526; testi-
monies to him, 526, 527; his character, 528; select
passages from him, 528 to 531; his testimony to the scrip-
tures, 532 to 575, and to our Saviour's unblemished cha-
racter, in his works against Celsus, iii. 554; refers to a
passage in Josephus concerning John the Baptist, 534,
535; how he quotes Josephus, as ascribing the destruction
of Jerusalem to the sin of the Jews in putting James to
death, 538; did not receive any books as sacred scriptures,
beside those in the present canon, i. 549 to 562, and 574;
his work against Celsus much esteemed, iv..216, 255;
quoted, 527, v. 335, 392, 393 ; his Greek text amended in
two places, i. 541, 572, note; commended by Anatolius,
ii. 78; Victorinus of Pettaw made use of his commentaries
upon the scriptures, 94; an edition of his Septuagint by
Pamphilus and Eusebius, 111, 121; his commentaries
transcribed by Pamphilus, 117; Methodius and others his
adversaries, 102; his great eminence, 122, 123; how
commended by Jerom, in the early part of his life, and
how he spake of him afterwards, 536, 537; his peculiar
opinions, 537 to 539; his catalogue of the books of the Old
Testament recited, 545; his opinions, and his works con-
demned by a Synod at Alexandria, 623, 624; some
account of his Tetrapla and Hexapla, i. 447; his account
of the Heretics, Apelles, iv. 645; the Basilidians, 554,
555; Elcesaites, 682; and Ophians, 656, 657; what
Porphyry writes of his having been educated in the heathen
principles confuted, i. 519, 520; iv. 213
Another Origen, i. 520

Origenists, an obscure sect mentioned by Epiphanius, i. 589
Original sin, v. 457, 458; not mentioned by Titus of Bostra,
in his arguments with the Manichees, ii. 147; asserted by
Gregory, Bp of Rome, iii. 72

Orosius, his memoir concerning the Priscillianists, ii. 511,
512; his wrong account of the origin of Trajan's perse-
cution, iv. 31; his account of the treatment given to
Gentile people by Christian magistrates, 437, 493

Earl of Orrery, his Translation of Pliny's epistles quoted,
iv. 26, 28, 29

Orthodoxy, Christians more orthodox in later ages than in the
primitive times, ii. 59, 82, 105, 278

Ossens, nearly the same as the Elcesaites, which see. Called.
also Sampsæans, iv. 683, 684
Owen, (Dr. J.) quoted, v. 376, note a 472

Pagi, (Ant.) commended, i. 94; his judgment, upon the
Constitutions, ii. 424; upon the Christianity of Philip,
i. 190

Palestine, a description of that country, iii. 388, 389
Palladius, author of the Lausiac history, his character of
Jerom, and reflections upon him, ii. 534, 535
Palladius, author of a dialogue of the life of Chrysostom,
his time, and testimony to the scriptures, iii. 4, 5
Palmas, Bp in Pontus, and writer in the second century,
i. 439

PAMPHILUS, presbyter at Casarea, his friendship with Euse-
bius, ii. 116; his life written by Eusebius, 118; a library
erected by him at Cæsarea, 116, 120; which was de-
stroyed before the middle of the seventh century, 122;
said to have set up a school or academy at Cæsarea, ibid.;
his apology for Origen, 117, 122; his edition of the
Seventy, 121; said to have composed summary contents
of the book of the Acts, 123; probably received the epistle
to the Hebrews, 121; his affection for the scriptures,
which he encouraged men and women of every condition
to read, 119, 123, 124; his martyrdom, 117, 118; his
excellent character, 118, 119, 124; Remarks upon
spurious Acts of his passion, 124, 125

Pan, a fabulous story concerning his death, in the time of
the emperor Tiberius, iii. 606, 607

Pandects, whether there are now in them any laws against
the Christians, iv. 180

Pantanus, master of the catechetical school at Alexandria,
his history, and testimony to the scriptures, i. 390, 391;
commended by Alexander, Bp of Jerusalem, 493
Papias Bp of Hieropolis, his history, character, work and
testimony to the books of the New Testament, i. 336
to 341

Papinian, an observation upon his conduct, iv. 170, 171
Parker, (S.) his Observations upon Philostratus's Life of
Apollonius Tyanæus, iv. 269, 271 to 275

Parmenian, Bp of the Donatists at Carthage, author of a
writing against the Catholics, answered by Optatus,

ii. 299

Passovers, how many in our Saviour's ministry, iïi. 242, 243
Patriarchs, (The) how reviled by the Manichees, ii. 210
Patrick, (Bp) quoted, v. 386, 398, 424

Patripassians, the Sabellians and others so called, i. 583
to 585

PAUL (ST.) THE APOSTLE, his history before his conversion,
and his general character, iii. 251, 252, 480; the place of
his birth, ii. 555, 556; a Roman citizen, and how he
came to be so, i. 123 to 125

The time of his conversion, iii. 251 to 254; his age
at that time, 258 to 259; observations upon his conver-
sion, and the circumstances of things at that time in Judea,
255 to 258; ii. 618; his conversion not the cause of the
rest of the churches in Judea, i. 55; when he was made
an apostle, iii. 259 to 263; received the whole doctrine of
the gospel immediately from heaven, iii. 13

The HISTORY of his travels and preaching, to his
coming from Damascus to Jerusalem the first time after
his conversion, iii. 262 to 264; to his being brought to
Antioch by Barnabas, 264 to 266; to bis coming up to
Jerusalem with the contributions of the Christians at
Antioch, 266 to 268; to his coming to the council at
Jerusalem about the year 49, 268 to 271; to his coming
to Jerusalem A. D. 58, when he was apprehended and
imprisoned, 272 to 279; his vow, i. 114; his imprison-
ment and prosecution in Judea, 37 to 39; the manner of
his imprisonment, 126 to 128; sent to Rome a prisoner
that he might not be soon expelled as a Jew, ii. 611; his
HISTORY, to the end of his imprisonment at Rome, iii.
279 to 281; to the time of his death, 281 to 284; the
time of his imprisonment at Rome, ii. 556; of his mar-
tyrdom, ibid.; was beheaded at Rome, A. D. 64 or 65,
L426, 482; iii. 283, 284; came with Peter from Corinth,

from whence they went to Rome, and suffered martyrdom
about the same time, i. 352, 353; in Nero's general per-
secution, ii. 622; iii. 15, 35, 40, 76

Whether he really blamed Peter for his conduct, men-
tioned Gal. 2, iv. 232; V. 519 to 521; wrought miracles
at Athens and at Rome, though not related by St. Luke,
iii. 211; uncertain whether he ever went into Spain,
iii. 232; there is no good reason to believe that he ever
was in Spain or Britain, 281. St. Paul much commended
by Origen, i. 535; Chrysostom, ii. 602, 613; Isidore,
iii. 8; Theodoret, 12, 13; Cassian, 18; Cosmas, 52;
Gregory, 70; his eloquence celebrated by Photius, though
he has many elliptical expressions, 83; character of his
style, by Irenæus, i. 369; by Origen, 532, 573; by
Jerom, ii. 570 to 571; vindicated against the reflections
of Porphyry, iv. 229 to 234; he was rejected by the
Ebionites, or some of them, i. 472; iii. 483; but re-
ceived by other Jewish believers, called Nazarenes, 484,
485; how treated by the author of the Recognitions,
i. 470, 471, 472

His fourteen epistles, their chronology, iii. 285 to 291;
all received by Origen, i. 533, 535 to 538, 574; were in
the library at Cæsarea, ii. 121; received by Archelaus
and Mani, 139; the Manichees, 213, 215; the Paulicians,
238, 239; generally received in the time of Eusebius,
369, 370, 381, 395; received by Athanasius, 400, 401;
in the Synopsis ascribed to him, 404; by Cyril of Jerusa-
lem, 410; Epiphanius, 417; the author of the Apostolical
Constitutions, 438; Gregory Nazianzen, 470; Amphi-
lochius, 473; Ebedjesu, 488; Theodore, Bp of Mopsu-
estia, who also wrote Commentaries upon them, 527.
Commentaries likewise were written upon them, by
C. M, Victorinus, 453; and Diodorus of Tarsus, 517;
received by Jerom, 548, 549, 556; the council of Carthage,
575; Rufinus, 573; Augustine, 578, 585; Chrysostom,
601, 602; Severian, Bp of Gabala, 620; Innocent of
Rome, 628; Paulinus of Nola, 629; Theodoret, iii. 11;
Cosmas, 51, 52; Euthalius, 39, who also published an
edition of them, 38; are in the Alexandrine M. S. 45, 46 ;
received by Isidore of Seville, 74; a Commentary on them
by Sedulius, 32, and as is supposed by Primasius, 33;
received by Cassiodorus, 61; Oecumenius, 84; Theophy-
lact, 86

His epistle to the Romans and several other of his
epistles referred to by Clement of Rome, i. 296 to 300;
his first epistle to the Corinthians quoted by the same
Clement, 293; and by Hermas, 414; his epistle to the
Ephesians quoted by Ignatius, 316, 318 to 320; his first
epistle to the Corinthians, and his epistles to the Philip-
pians and the Thessalonians, quoted by Polycarp, 327,
328, 329; several of his epistles referred to by Hermas,
308, 309; by Ignatius, 318 to 321; by Polycarp, 329 to
331; see 336; by Justin M. 346 to 347; see 349; by the
author of the epistle to Diognetus, 349 to 351; by the
martyrs at Lyons, 361, 362; by Athenagoras, 379 to 381;
by Theophilus of Antioch, 385 to 388; twelve or thirteen-
of his epistles received and quoted by Irenæus, 368 to
369; see 371, 372; all received and quoted by Clement
of Alexandria, except the epistle to Philemon, 400, 401;
all received by Tertullian, except the epistle to the He-
brews, 422 to 424, 427, 428; how many were received by
Tatian, 353 to 355; the author of the Testaments of the
twelve patriarchs, appears to have received the book of
the Acts, and St. Paul's epistles, 463, 464; all rehearsed
by Caius, except that to the Hebrews, 481; several of
his epistles quoted by Firmilian, 576, 577; all quoted by
Cyprian, except the epistle to Philemon, and that to the
Hebrews, which he did not receive, ii. 20 to 24, 30; se-
veral of his epistles quoted by Novatus, 62, 63; by Com-
modian, 73; Anatolius, 78; the author of the poem
against the Marcionites, 93; Victorinus, 96; Methodius,
105; whether the epistle to the Hebrews was received

by Eusebius, 372, 373, 381, 382; it was doubted of by
some, particularly the church of the Romans, 37°, 473;
iii. 74; whether written in Hebrew, ii. 391, 392; a com-
mentary upon thirteen of the epistles by Pelagius, 630;
when first divided into sections and chapters, 39, 45

The order of his epistles in point of time, ii. 606, iii.
11, 39, 46, 47, 52, 58, 61

A forged book entitled The Travels of Paul and Thecla,
rejected and condemned, i. 435; an apocryphal book
called Acts of Paul, quoted by Origen, but not received
by him as of authority, 555

Paul's Revelation, rejected by Sozomen and the ancients,
ii. 388

Paul of Concordia, a Letter of Jerom to him, ii. 443; told
Jerom that Cyprian used to call Tertullian his master,
i. 417

Paul of Samosata, Bp of Antioch, his history, i. 620 to 623;
favoured by Zenobia, 623; his opinions, 623, 625 to 628;
had a considerable number of proselytes, 627; scriptures
received by him, 628; his works, ibid.; his character,
ibid.; said to have judaized, 626

Paul, a Novatian Bp at Constantinople, ii. 56
Paul, a learned Persian, ii. 59

Paula, Jerom's friend, how commended by Possidonius, ii. 535
Paulianists, their baptism, i. 627, 628; their continuance,
ibid.

Paulicians, their history and time, ii. 238; reduced their
sect to six churches, 158; changed their first names for
others, ibid.; how they called their ministers, 238; their
testimony to the scriptures, 238, 239

Paulinus, Bp of Nola, his time and works, and testimony to
the scriptures, ii. 629, 630

Pausanias, his testimony to the destruction of Jerusalem by
a Roman emperor, iii. 532

Peace (the) of the churches in Judea. See Rest

Pearson, (Bp) a remark of his upon Clement of Rome, i.
294; upon Ignatius, 323; his opinion concerning the
time of Polycarp's martyrdom, 326; concerning the Con-
stitutions, 456; quoted, iii. 600, 606; v. 374. note, 429;
censured, iii. 316; quoted and commended, 345, and
elsewhere

Pierce, (J.) quoted, iii. 349, 357; v. 374 note, 378 note, 391,
393; with disapprobation, 313 to 315

Pelagius, his time and works, and testimony to the scriptures,
ii. 630 to 632; sometimes confutes the Manichees, ii. 148;-
quoted, v. 392, 416, 428-

Pelagianism, how described by Cassian, iii. 18; how treated
by Vincentius Lirinensis, 24

Peregrinus, called also Proteus, said by Lucian to have been
some while among the Christians, and afterwards to have
parted from them, iii. 150; his death mentioned by seve-
ral ancient writers, 151

Perennis desired Apollonius to plead before the Roman
senate, i. 444

Perizonius, his interpretation of Luke ii. 1, 2. represented
and considered, i. 165 to 171

Perpetua, a martyr, i. 578; with Felicitas in the time of.
Severus, iii. 167

Persecution, or force and compulsion in things of religion,
condemned by our blessed Saviour, iv. 497; by the Abp
of Canterbury, 498; by Tertullian, Lactantius, Athanasius,
Constantine, Jovian, Valentinian, Julian, Themistius, Li-
banius, Ammianus Marcellinus, 498, 499; by De Maus-
sac, a learned Dominican, v. 332; every degree of it may
fill our minds with horror, iv. 294; arguments against it
in Lactantius, and that Christians did not persecute, ii.
273 to 275; condemned by Athanasius, 399, by the
Christian religion, 471; all persecution condemned by
Sulpicius Severus, ii. 623, 624; makes heresies spread
faster than otherwise they would, ibid.; how defined by
Socrates, iii. 93. On the subject of prosecuting the writers
against Christianity, see Dr. Waddington, Bp of Chiches-

ter's correspondence with Dr. Lardner, i. p. xxxv to
Xxxvii. A general account of the heathen persecutions,.
ii. 623; the number of heathen persecutions of the
Christians, iv. 298, 299

PERSIA, the gospel first preached there by the apostle Thad--
deus, iii. 55; many churches there, ibid.; the cruelty of
a persecution endured there by the Christians, and the
happy alteration made in the manners of those of them,
who embraced the Christian religion, 15; the Christian
religion preached there before the time of Mani, ii. 234 ;-
before the council of Nice, 348; before the time of Euse-
bius, 365; the time of a persecution there, 346
Pestilence in the Roman empire, and the time of it, ii. 6
Petavius quoted, ii. 422 note e, 432, 433, 434

PETER (ST.) THE APOSTLE, his history to the time of our
Saviour's ascension, iii. 388 to 392; he and his brother
Andrew said to have been the first two disciples called by
Christ, 6. His history to the council at Jerusalem, 392 to
403; after which he goes to Antioch, where he is reproved
by St. Paul for dissimulation, 403, 404, iv. 231, 232; his
travels to the time of his coming to Rome, 404 to 406; said
to be at Rome in the time of Claudius, 76; his history from
Jerom, ii. 560; preached to the Jews in Pontus and Bithynia
according to Eusebius, ii. 371; was often in those coun-
tries according to Epiphanius, 419; the time of his death,
iii. 406; the manner of his death, 408, 409; was at Rome
and suffered martyrdom there, 409 to 416; came to Rome
in 63 or 64, and suffered martyrdom in 64 or 65, p. 154,
284, 404 to 406; suffered martyrdom at Rome together with
Paul, in the time of Nero according to Eusebius and
Dionysius of Corinth, i. 353; according to Tertullian,
426; and Caius, 482; and Theodoret, iii. 15; was at
Antioch, afterwards in Pontus, and at Rome in the time
of Claudius, and suffered martyrdom with Paul in Nero's
general persecution, ii. 622; iii. 15, 35, 76; in the last
year of Nero, 79; the place of his interment, ii. 560

Concerning his episcopate at Antioch, iii. 407; said to
have been bishop of kome twenty-five years, ibid.; Rome
Peter's province, according to Ephrem, ii. 487; his chil-
dren, iii. 407; his wife's martyrdom, 408; his absconding
at Rome, ibid.; the manner of his crucifixion, 408, 409;
the prerogatives of this apostle, 391 to 393; miracles
wrought at Jerusalem by his shadow passing by, 393, 394;
much commended, iii. 12; his preeminence, 35, 36, 70,
83; he and the apostle Paul are expressly mentioned by
Hierocles, iv. 255, 257, 261.

HIS TWO EPISTLES, their genuineness shewn from
testimony and internal characters, iii. 414 to 416; to
whom they were sent, 416 to 419; whether sent to Jews
or Gentiles, ii. 478, 560, 587, 626; iii. 23, 59, 61, 62,
71, 79, 84; the place where they were written, 419 to
423; the first epistle written at Rome, ii, 626; iii. 43, 90;
at Babylon in Persia, iii. 53, 55; the time when they were
written, 423. Remarks on 1 Pet. v. 13, iii. 424, 425

His first epistle seems to be referred to by Clement of
Rome, i. 302; referred to by Polycarp several times, 331,
332; by the martyrs at Lyons, 362; received by Theo-
philus of Antioch, 385, 388, 389; quoted by Papias, 340,
341; Irenæus, 570; Clement of Alexandria, 403; Ter-
tullian, 429; universally received in Origen's time, 532;
quoted or referred to by Victorinus, ii. 97; Methodius,
106; universally received, 369, 383

Both his epistles received by Athanasius, ii. 400, 401;
Cyril of Jerusalem, 410; the council of Laodicea, 415;
Epiphanius, 417, 419; Innocent, Bp of Rome, 628; Pe-
lagius, 631; Cyril of Alexandria, iii. 9; Prosper, 21; Sal-
vian, 36; Gregory, Bp of Rome, 70, 71; the author
of the Imperfect Work, 66

The second epistle seems to be referred to by Clement
of Rome, i. 302; quoted by the author of Questiones et
R. 343; by Adamantius, ii. 407; generally received at
Alexandria, 478; quoted by Ambrose, 495; by the author

of the Commentary upon thirteen of St. Paul's epistles,
521; received by Jerom, 560

The second epistle not quoted by Papias, i. 310; nor
by Irenæus, 370, 372; nor Tertullian, 429, 430; doubted
of in the time of Origen, 532; how quoted by him, 539,
540; whether received by Firmilian, 577, ii. 25; not
quoted by Cyprian, 25; whether referred to by Novatus,
64; or Methodius, 107; not universally received in the
time of Eusebius, 369, 383; doubted of by some in the
time of Didymus, 478; not received by the churches of
Syria, 488 to 490; not received by Chrysostom, 602, 607;
doubted of by some, iii. 59, 71, 74; because of the dif-
ference of the style, ii. 560; iii. 74

Both his epistles probably received by the Manichees,
ii. 216; both rejected by the Paulicians, 289. See Catho-
lic epistles

The Gospel, Acts, Preaching, Judgment, Revelation,
and other books ascribed to Peter, rejected by Jerom, ii.
560, 574 See Acts, Gospel

PETER'S Preaching, or Preaching of Peter and Paul, how
quoted by Clement of Alexandria, i. 408, 409; when
written, 410 note ; quoted by Heracleon, and rejected
by Origen, 554, 555; called likewise by him, Doctrine of
Peter, 554; censured by the author of Rebaptizing, ii. 39;
how quoted by Lactantius, with remarks, 291; rejected
in Eusebius, 370, 387; and Jerom, 560; that it was not
received as a canonical book by Clement of Alexandria,
see i. 555

Peter's Revelation; short notes written upon it by Clement
of Alexandria, i. 394; how quoted by him, 410; rejected
by Eusebius and the ancients, ii. 370, 388; and by
Jerom, 560

Peter, Bp of Alexandria, his history, works, and testimony
to the scriptures, ii. 127 to 129

Peter of Sicily, his work against the Manichees, and his
time, ii. 153

Petilian, a Donatist bishop, ii. 300

Petronius, president of Syria, ordered by Caligula to erect
his statue at Jerusalem, i. 49, 54; his precept to the ma-
gistrates of Doris in favour of the Jews, 96

Pfaff (C. M.) Fragments of Irenæus published by him, and
remarks upon them, i. 375; quoted, iii. 465
PHARISEES; their principles and practices, i. 66 to 68; their
power under Alexandra, 66; that title appropriated to
men of substance and learning, 69, 119; six thousand of
them refuse to swear to Cæsar and Herod, 119, 153;
their great authority among the Jews, 119, 153
Phedimus, Bp of Amasea, ordains Gregory Thaumaturgus,
i. 593

Pheroras, inquiries into the occasion of his death, i. 187
Pheroras's wife misrepresented by Josephus, i. 155
Philaster, Ep of Brescia, what he says of some catholics
omitting to read publicly the epistle to the Hebrews, ii 64;
his time and work, and testimony to the scripturess, 522,
523; his article concerning the Abstinents, with remarks,
516, 517; he wrote a long treatise of heresies, and yet
has not been reckoned orthodox by all, iv. 513; he thought
that the soul was created before the body, and that the
doctrine of the Millennium is a heresy, ibid.; his account
of the Heretics, Apelles, 643, Cerdon, 587, Cerinthus,
570, Leucius, 626; the Montanists, 675
Phileas, Bp of Thmuis in Egypt, aud martyr, ii. 126, 127
Phileleutherus Dubliniensis. See Bentley

Philemon, converted by St. Paul, iii. 351, 365; his character
and station, 323, 324, 365, 366; Paul's epistle to him,
when and where written, 323, 324; quoted by Origen,
i. 535; not quoted by Cyprian, ii. 29; received by Mar-
cion, iv. 617, 618; rejected by some, ii. 557
Philip, tetrarch of Iturea, in the time of John the Baptist, i.
11, 12; married to Salome, Herodias's daughter, 212
Philip, otherwise called Herod, first husband of Herodias, his
history, i. 212; was a private person, 215

Philip, said to be the apostle, lived and died at Hierapolis in
Phrygia, and wrought miracles there, and his daughters
prophesied, i. 335, 336, 337; V. 401

Philip, Bp of Gortyna in Crete, i. 439

Philife the emperor, whether he was a Christian, iv. 188
to 191

Philippi, oratory there, by the river's side, i. 61
Philippians, (the epistle to the) when and where written, iii.

321, 322

Philippus Sidetes, his account of Athenagoras and Pantænus,
i. 377, 390

Philo, the Jew, says, that Pilate dedicated shields at Jerusa-
lem, i. 185; speaks of four sons of Herod living in the
time of Pilate, 214; mentioned by Anatolius, ii. 78; his
divisions of the books of the Old Testament, 544
Philopatris, a Dialogue so called, its age, and extracts from
it, with remarks, iv. 153 to 155.

Philoromus, receiver-general at Alexandria, and martyr in
Dioclesian's persecution, ii. 126

Philosophers, their timorousness in declaring the truth, ii.
597; their credulity, and that they did little to improve
the sentiments of mankind, iv. 271

Philostorgius, his time and writings, and testimony to the
scriptures, ii. 318, 319; his character, III
Philostratus, his testimony to the destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus, iii. 530, 533; his Life of Apollonius Tyanæus,
with remarks, and that he did not aim to set up Apollonius
a corrival with our Saviour, though Hierocles and
other heathens afterwards made that use of it, iv. 260 to
271, 271 to 275

as

Phlegon, his time and works, iv. 58; supposed to speak of
our Saviour's foreknowledge, ibid.; was credulous, ibid.;
a passage in which he is supposed to speak of the miracu-
lous darkness at the time of our Saviour's passion, with
notes and observations, 59 to 68; how quoted by Dr.
Clarke and Grotius, 60

Photinus, bis history, ii. 443, 444; opinions, 444 to 446;
writings, 446 character, ibid.; scriptures received by
him, ibid.; the continuance of his sect, 447
Photinians, sometimes called Bonosiacs, or Bonosians, ii. 447 ;
not allowed to hold religious assemblies, ibid.; mentioned
by Augustine as in being in his time, i. 627
Photius, his character of the epistle of Clement of Rome, i.
290 note; his censure of Irenæus, 365; of Clement of
Alexandria, 394; his account of the genuine and supposi-
titious writings of Clement of Rome, 473; his time, and
books against the Manichees, ii. 153; his manner of
treating them, 148; his time, and testimony to the scrip-
tures, iii. 81 to 83; quoted and commended, v. 10
Pierius, presbyter of Alexandria, fragments supposed to be
his, though ascribed to Clement Apollinarius, i. 441; his
history, ii. 84 to 86; said to have been a catechist, 85;
how he speaks of the Trinity, 86; his copies of the Bible,
81; his character, 84, 86

Piety, the virtue and benefit of early, a sermon, v. 106
Pilate, (Pontius) his unjust government in Judea, i. 43;
stood in fear of the Jews, 43, 52; was in Judea at the
commencement of John the Baptist's ministry, 202; at
Jerusalem at the time of our Saviour's crucifixion, 79, 82;
his wife in Judea, So; the duration of his government,
48, 49, 202; when he came into Judea, and when re-
moved, 202, 203, 204; remarks upon his power in Judea,
86; of what kind his fear mentioned in John xix. 8, 83,
84; brings Roman ensigns into Jerusalem, 84; dedicates
shields there, 85; would have brought water thither with
the sacred money, ibid.; his Acts, and Letter to Tiberius,
iii. 599 to 606; made away with himself, i. 205
Pilgrimages, disliked by Gregory Nyssen and Jerom, ii. 476
Pin, (E. Du) his character of Novatus, ii. 61; his character
of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, 359; of Eusebius
himself, 363; his judgment concerning the Constitutions,
423, 424

Pinytus, Bp of Gnossus in Crete, i. 439

Pionius, an excellent martyr, learned men are not agreed
about the time of his martyrdom, i. 580

Piso, præfect of Syria, i. 176; his delays in going to Rome
after his removal, 205

Piso (Lucius) when made præfect of Rome, i. 195 to 197
Plato quoted, v. 420

Pliny, the Elder, his time and character, and whether he
refers to the blindness inflicted by St. Paul upon Elymas
the sorcerer in Cyprus, iii. 609

Pliny, (the Younger) the time of his provincial government,
iv. 11, 12; his Letter to Trajan concerning the Christians,
13 to 15; rehearsed with notes and observations, 15 to 28;
Trajan's Rescript rehearsed with notes and observations,
29, 30; observations of learned men upon Pliny's Letter
and Trajan's Rescript, 30 to 33; the uses of those epistles,
and general observations upon them, 39 to 43; Pliny's
character and his amiable qualities, 34; was credulous
and superstitious, 35, 36; his want of equity toward the
Christians, 18, 19, 27, 28; perverted many, 18, 21, 22;
condemned them without law and authority, 20, 28, 29;
examined by torture two Christian women then in years,
25, 26; was zealous for the honour of the gods and priest-
hood, 27

Plotina, wife of Trajan, commended, iv. 39

Plotinus negligent in observing the sacred rites of Gentilism,
iv. 200

Plutarch, his dialogue concerning the cessation of oracles
quoted, iii. 606, 607; whether he knew any thing of the
Christians, or their affairs, iv. 204, 206; his judicious ob-
servations upon the fabulous stories common among the
Greeks, 266; quoted, iii. 513

Plutarch, brother of Heraclas, scholar of Origen, and mar
tyr, i. 520

Polycarp, Bp of Smyrna, his time and history, from Irenæus,
i. 325, 326; ordained by apostles, 326; his great age and
martyrdom, ibid.; wrote several epistles not now extant,
ibid.; in his epistle to the Philippians, his only remaining
work, he quotes or refers to the first epistle of St Peter,
and divers other books of the New Testament, 325, 327
to 333; how he is quoted by Irenæus, 374, 375; the
Responsiones, ascribed to him, not his, 327. The relation
of his martyrdom, with notes and observations, 327; iv.
82 to 84; extracts out of it, containing their testimony to
the scriptures of the New Testament, i. 333, 334; quoted,

v. 402

Polycrates, Bp of Ephesus, his history, and testimony to the
scriptures, i. 412, 413; his story concerning St. John's
wearing on his. forehead a golden plate examined, ii.
554, 555

Pompey, the time of his conquest of Judea, and taking Jeru-
salem, and his behaviour there, iii..
1. 492

Pomponia Græcina, a Roman lady, accused of a foreign su-
perstition, (supposed to be Christiarity) in the time of
Nero, A.D. 57, iii. 610

Ponticus, a young man, martyr at Lyons, iv. 89

Pontius, deacon at Carthage, his history, and testimony to
the books of the New Testament, ik 31:
Pontius Pilate. See Pilate

Popular preaching, how censured by Jerom, ii. 571
PORPHYRY, the philosopher, his time, and history, and works,
iv. 2c9, 210 to 213; why he was called Bataneotis, 210;
he never was a Christian, 211; his books against the
Christians ordered to be destroyed, 111, 212; what he says
of Bardesanes, i. 443, 444; of Ammonius, 503; his
passage concerning Origen, with remarks, 520, 527.
iv. 213, 214; was weil acquainted with the scriptures of
the Old and New Testament, 234; his objections against
the book of Daniel, 214 to 223; remarks upon these ob-
jections, and upon the answers to them, 223 to 225; pas-
sages, in which he acknowledges the antiquity of Moses,
226; his objection against Gen. iii. 5, p. 226. Texts in

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the New Testament objected against by Porphyry, Matt. i..
11, 12, p. 227; iii. 3, p. 228; ix. 9, p. 227. xiii. 35
p. 227; xiv. 25, p. 228; xxiv. 15, ibid.; xxvii. 45, ibid.;
John vii. 8, 10, p. 229; Acts v. 1 to 14, p. 230; Gal. i.
15, 16, ibid.; ii. 11 to 14, p. 230 to 233. A review of his
testimony to the books of the Old and New Testament,
234; passages concerning Christians and their affairs,
where also are extracts from a letter of Augustine, with
six questions containing difficulties taken from Porphyry,
234 to 237; a work entitled The Philosophy of Oracles,
ascribed to him, and shewn to be spurious, ii. 361. iv. 238
to 250; his Life of Pythagoras, with remarks, and that
it was not written with a design to compare Pythagoras
with Jesus Christ, 269, 270; his books against the Chris--
tian religion, answered by Methodius, ii. 98, 101, 357,
and Apollinarius, 456, 457

Porphyry, servant of Pamphilus, his martyrdom, ii. 124
Posidonius, what he said of Jerom, mentioned by Palladius,
ii. 535

Posthumian, chief speaker in a dialogue of Sulpicius Severus,
ii. 537, 623

Potamiana, a virgin, martyr at Alexandria in the time of
Severus, iv. 166

Pothinus, Bp of Lyons, and predecessor of Irenæus, his age
and sufferings, i. 360, 363, 364. iv. 87

Potter (J.) his Greek antiquities quoted, iv. 174
Præsens, see Bruttius.
Prætextatus, a Roman of great distinction, an oration in his-
praise by Himerius, iv. 349; how he jested with Damasus
Bp of Rome, 377, 378; commended by Ammianus, 377.-
See likewise 406, 466

Praxagoras, his history of Constantine, and great character
of him, iv. 309, 310

Praseas, our knowledge of him chiefly from Tertullian,
iv. 676; his time and country, ibid.; was persecuted, and
once signed a recantation, 677; strenuous asserter of the
divine unity, and believed the general articles of the
Christian faith, 677, 678; denied that the Father or the
Divine nature in Jesus suffered, 678, 679; received both
the Old and New Testament, 679, 680.

Prayer in the name of Christ, a sermon, v. 218; the apostles
never prayed, nor mentioned blessings, as given for the
sake of Christ, 225, 226

Preaching of Paul or Peter, an apocryphal book censured by
the author of a work entitled Of Rebaptizing Heretics,
ii. 39

Preaching of Peter quoted by Lactantius, ii. 29r
President, this title used in a general way, i. 171, 209
Presidents of provinces, had power of life and death, i. 42;
43; were supreme judges in all causes in their provinces,
46; had a council with them, 59; their good conduct
toward persons of different religions, 101 to 103
Prideaux (Dr.) his opinion concerning the survey at the
time of our Saviour's nativity considered, i. 138, 139; his
remark upon Herod's cruelty, 181; quoted and com-
mended, 71, 216; his account of the Mishna and Talmuds,
iii. 548; his judicious observations-upon Porphyry's expli-
cations of the book. of Daniel, and upon his objections
against that book, iv. 220, 223, 224; his judgment upon
the Sibylline oracles, i. 450; quoted, iii. 78. v. 460, 470
Priests and Levites, Christian ministers not so called in early
times, ii. 430

Primasius, an African Bp, his Commentary upon St. Paul's
epistles quoted, iii. 33

Primus, Bp of Corinth, i. 357
Prince, when used absolutely, equivalent to emperor, i. 197
Principle, meaning of this word, iv. 595
Priscian, governor of Palestine, to whom Libanius writes,

ii. 144

Priscillian, his writings, ii. 497; history of him, and his
prosecution and death, 498 to 500; an apology for him
and his friends, 502 to 511; his character, 502, 503.

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