. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. cription of the 2nd century at Cos*(Figure 61), on the tombstone of the Imperial freedmanHermes, who had been an official of the inheritance-duties department. In the third and fourth lines heis called Augustor{um) n{ostrorum) lib{erto), freed-man of our Augusti. In Greek the title is also of The first examples were given by Wiloken, Oriechisehe Ostraka, I. p. 661 f.(the London Papyrus No. 266 is now accessible, Greek Papyri in the BritishMusewm, Vol. II. p. 95 fE.); of. also Ar
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. cription of the 2nd century at Cos*(Figure 61), on the tombstone of the Imperial freedmanHermes, who had been an official of the inheritance-duties department. In the third and fourth lines heis called Augustor{um) n{ostrorum) lib{erto), freed-man of our Augusti. In Greek the title is also of The first examples were given by Wiloken, Oriechisehe Ostraka, I. p. 661 f.(the London Papyrus No. 266 is now accessible, Greek Papyri in the BritishMusewm, Vol. II. p. 95 fE.); of. also Arohiv fiir Papyrusforschung, 1, p. 145. Newexamples are given by W. Schubart, Archiv, 5, p. 116 fE., who thinks they referto freedmen. * Winer-Sohmiedel, § 16,2c, note 18 (p. 135). References for CaesaHanus in Theodor Mommsen, Hermes, 34 (1899)p. 151 f., and Magie, p. 73. * Budolf Herzog, Kirisclie Forsolmmgen und Funde, p. 106 f., No. 165. Thefacsimile there given (plate V. 4) is here reproduced (Fig. 61) by kind per-mission of the editor and his publisher. The terminus post qucm for theinscription is 161 Fig. 61.—Marble Stele from Cos, Tombstoneof Hermes, an Imperial Freedman, after161 Now in the house of Said Ali inthe town of Cos. By permission of RudolfHerzog and the publishing house of TlieodorWeicher (Dieteriohsohe Verlagsbuchhand-lung). [p. 382 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 383 j&requent occurrence, with many variations,^ from thefirst century onwards. Finally, when Christ says in St. Johns Gospel^(XV. 14 f.) :— Ye are My friends. . Henceforth I call you not slaves —the collocation of slave and <f)i\o<;, friend,reminds us that the Emperor also had friends, aswell as slaves. Friend of the Emperor is anofficial title, going back probably to the language ofthe court under the successors of Alexander,* andfound, for instance, in two inscriptions of the Imperialperiod at Thyatira.^ The parallelism becomes stillclearer afterwards if we compare the
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