. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. a Q 1 4i a =H t^ O o QQ a C o 1—( •s a 03 ca a ^ ^ -tj a> On ^ t>^ g pq a t« S be P t~ aj <D CO P^ P a S P fl Lh •l-H q_, 1—1 r-H V Cfi m (U TIJ Xi ^SjJ. FiGf. 54.—Marble Slab from Magnesia on the Maeander with a Votive Inscription for Nero,30-54 Original at Pergamum ; plaster cast in the Berlin Museum. By permission of theDirectors of the Boyal Museums. [ 361 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 351 Overseer as a title of honour in this inscriptionrecalls the use
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. a Q 1 4i a =H t^ O o QQ a C o 1—( •s a 03 ca a ^ ^ -tj a> On ^ t>^ g pq a t« S be P t~ aj <D CO P^ P a S P fl Lh •l-H q_, 1—1 r-H V Cfi m (U TIJ Xi ^SjJ. FiGf. 54.—Marble Slab from Magnesia on the Maeander with a Votive Inscription for Nero,30-54 Original at Pergamum ; plaster cast in the Berlin Museum. By permission of theDirectors of the Boyal Museums. [ 361 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 351 Overseer as a title of honour in this inscriptionrecalls the use of the same word as a predicate ofGod in Judaism and Primitive Christianity.^ Then an example of St. Pauls time—a votiveinscription for Nero on a marble slab at Magnesiaon the Maeander^ (Figure 54), between his adoptionby Claudius and his accession to the throne (50 and54 ). Nero is called (line 3fF.) Son of thegreatest pf the gods, Tiberius Claudius, etc.^ The adjective ^eios, divine, belonging to thesame family-group of meanings, is, like the Latindivinus, very common * in the sense of Imperialthroughout the whole Imperial period. So firmlyhad it established itself in the language of thecourt that it is found even in the period whenChristianity was the religion of
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