Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . NO. 8.—JIERCUUY. NO. 9. -HEAD OF MESSALINA, THE FIFTH WIFEOF THE EMPEROU CLAUDIAN. 5thly. The age to which we must attribute the production of theseworks of art coincides with this svipposition. Additional confirmationof this is afforded by some coins Ibund with them, and Avhich are knownto date no further back than a century and a half to two centuries fashion of the hair in the head No. 9 will admit of our fixing thedate of the destr
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . NO. 8.—JIERCUUY. NO. 9. -HEAD OF MESSALINA, THE FIFTH WIFEOF THE EMPEROU CLAUDIAN. 5thly. The age to which we must attribute the production of theseworks of art coincides with this svipposition. Additional confirmationof this is afforded by some coins Ibund with them, and Avhich are knownto date no further back than a century and a half to two centuries fashion of the hair in the head No. 9 will admit of our fixing thedate of the destruction of these objects in the first century. I am notaware that we have any account of the introduction of the Gospel,or of its triumphs at Tarsus; but it is not unlikely that this rejec-tion of the objects of superstitious reverence might have taken placebefore the close of the first century: and doubtless St. Paul -would havebeen anxious for the conversion of his immediate friends and reations;and if he could not have suj)erintended it in jierson, he would haveearly sent his most able and clficieut disciples to carry on this work ofgrace. Th
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