. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. scriptioncannot, and was never intended to be understood. Hereand there, however, there is just a glimmering of , in the first line, may be read something like Apre/M4»oos lepor, Holy light of Diana, and the last lettersare Apx» the abbreviation of ^Apx^^p^vs, or high must have been brought from Ephesus to Syracuseby some devoted worshipper of the great goddess, andused perhaps as an amulet to secure the wearer againstthe assaults of demons or evil spirits. P. 336. Reference is here made to the coinage commonlycurrent in the days of the
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. scriptioncannot, and was never intended to be understood. Hereand there, however, there is just a glimmering of , in the first line, may be read something like Apre/M4»oos lepor, Holy light of Diana, and the last lettersare Apx» the abbreviation of ^Apx^^p^vs, or high must have been brought from Ephesus to Syracuseby some devoted worshipper of the great goddess, andused perhaps as an amulet to secure the wearer againstthe assaults of demons or evil spirits. P. 336. Reference is here made to the coinage commonlycurrent in the days of the Apostle, and it will be seenthat the Greek drachma, formerly O^rf., was at this timeof the same weight with, and was equivalent to theRoman denarius, viz , 8^rf., so that in Roman writersdrachmas were called denarii, and in Greek writersdenarii were called drachmje. The following is a spe-cimen of the Greek drachma coined in the reign of the Emperor Nero, and which should have been iiits proper place, but was accidentally P. 401. The well-known iambic, ^Seipovaiv ijBri xPV^^^S/iiXiai Kaxat, Evil communications corrupt goodmanners, is cited by St. Paul from the comedy of Thais by Menander, and the following portrait ofJlenander, as handed down from the aurients, shouldhave appeared in the body of the work.
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