. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. ,_ - ?-- C ^ lA ?^ - o ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 371 facsimiles to be published of these important texts. ^Here we find (line 40 f, Figure 60) this remarkablesentence referring to the birthday of the EmperorAugustus:— Bi avTOP eiavyeXl,[oiv 17 76-veff\io<s] I Tov Oeov. But the birthday of the god wasfor the world the beginning oftidings of joy on his account.^ Two and a half centuries later we hear the echo ofthese festal trumpets when, on the receipt of thejoyful tiding

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. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. ,_ - ?-- C ^ lA ?^ - o ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 371 facsimiles to be published of these important texts. ^Here we find (line 40 f, Figure 60) this remarkablesentence referring to the birthday of the EmperorAugustus:— Bi avTOP eiavyeXl,[oiv 17 76-veff\io<s] I Tov Oeov. But the birthday of the god wasfor the world the beginning oftidings of joy on his account.^ Two and a half centuries later we hear the echo ofthese festal trumpets when, on the receipt of thejoyful tidings that G. JuHus Verus Maximus hadbeen appointed Caesar, an Egyptian, probably a highofficial, wrote to another a letter, preserved on afragment of papyrus in the Royal Library at Berlin,calling for a procession to be arranged for the fragment reads:— iirei 7j/[ft)]<rT[j7? i^evoiirjv rov]evav^eK[l,o\v * irepl tov avr)-yopevtrOai Kaiaapa tov tov0eo<f)CKeffTdTov KvpLov5 rfjjMv AvTOKpaTopoi} Kat-trapofTaiov ^lovXiov OvripovMa^ifiivov Forasmuch as I have becomeaware of the tidings of joyconcer

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