. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. the same periodas the evangelists. Gaius Stertinius Xenophon,body-physician to the Emperor Claudius, whom heafterwards poisoned, was contemporary with Jesus,and received from the people of Cos, probably 53, in gratitude for his valuable services to hisnative island, the title of Benefactor. The titleprecedes his name, for instance, in a fragmentaryinscription from Cos* (Figure 38), which was probablyconnected with some honour conferred on his wife: * of the benefactor
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. the same periodas the evangelists. Gaius Stertinius Xenophon,body-physician to the Emperor Claudius, whom heafterwards poisoned, was contemporary with Jesus,and received from the people of Cos, probably 53, in gratitude for his valuable services to hisnative island, the title of Benefactor. The titleprecedes his name, for instance, in a fragmentaryinscription from Cos* (Figure 38), which was probablyconnected with some honour conferred on his wife: * of the benefactor G. Stertinius Xenophon, . .consecrated to the city. Tw 6ue/37eT[a T. 5t6/3-jTivlov Hej0(^ft)ir[os]avLep Cf. for instance the Old Testament Apocrypha. ^ Luke xxii. 25 f. •» Discovered and published by Eudolf Herzog, Emche Forsehimgm , Leipzig, 1899, p. 653., Nos. 24, 25. The greatly reduced facsimUe(Plate IV. 2, 3) is here reproduced (Fig. 38) by the kind permission of and his publisher. * The upper fragment ITHIOrA is perhaps part of another Fig. 38.—Marble lusoription from Cos, containing the title Euergetes, cirea 53 Now inSarrara Yussufs garden wall, in the town of Cos. By permission of Kudolf Herzog and thepublishing house of Theodor Weioher (Dieterichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung). [p. 248 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 24-9 Jesus knew this custom of the Gentiles mostprobably from Sjn*ian and Phoenician coins ^ whichcirculated in Palestine, and it is, I think, justifiable tosuppose that this common Greek title existed as aborrowed word in Aramaic. The Greek title in themouth of Jesus is, like His words about the denarius,one of the instances in which we seem to hear in thelanguage of the Master the roar of breakers comingfrom the great world afar off. He mentioned thetitle not without contempt, and forbade His disciplesto allow themselves to be so called: the name con-tradicted the idea of service in brotherhood. About twenty years
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