. An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures . r the life of the emperor. Wholecities took this appellation,1 and Ephesus had this prerogativeabove the other cities in Asia Minor ; though some of them, asSmyrna, Laodicea, and Pergamus, disputed the primacy withher. There are extant, in various cabinets, numerous medals, inwhich the appellation of NEQKOP02 is given to the city ofEphesus in particular, with the several inscriptions of , B and A12 NEflKOPDN, r or 7P12and A or TETPA-K12 NEslKOPfiN ; intimating that the Ephesians had borne theoffice o
. An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures . r the life of the emperor. Wholecities took this appellation,1 and Ephesus had this prerogativeabove the other cities in Asia Minor ; though some of them, asSmyrna, Laodicea, and Pergamus, disputed the primacy withher. There are extant, in various cabinets, numerous medals, inwhich the appellation of NEQKOP02 is given to the city ofEphesus in particular, with the several inscriptions of , B and A12 NEflKOPDN, r or 7P12and A or TETPA-K12 NEslKOPfiN ; intimating that the Ephesians had borne theoffice of Ncikoroi to the temples erected in honour of the Ro-man emperors for the first, second, third, and fourth times. Ofthe medals referred to, a catalogue has been given by M. Rasche,to whose learned work the reader is Not to multiplyunnecessary examples,—in the valuable cabinet of the BritishMuseum there is a rare bronze medal of the emperor Caracalla,whoso head is on the obverse ; and on the reverse, of which thefollowing is an accurate there are. four temples ; the uppermost of which (on the lefthand) is the the temple of the Ephesian Diana, whose figure ap-pears in the centre. Opposite to it is the temple of .Esculapius ;and the two other temples, beneath, are those of Geta and Cara-calla. The inscription ITPnTflN ACIAC E*ECinN aT that the Ephesians, the chief [people or citizens] ofAsia, had for the fourth time been Ne koroi in honour of thoseemperors. Such is the nature of the coincidence furnished bythis medal (even if there were no others extant), that it is suffi-cient of itself to establish the authenticity of the work, in whichthe coincidence is found. Besides the testimony furnished by thismedal (which has never before been engraved), there is extant atEphesus an ancient Creek inscription, on a slab of white marble,which not only confirms the general history related in Acts six.,but even approaches to several sentiments an
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