. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. f the whole stele (including the portion previouslydiscovered). On the upper fragment of this stele we find ourword in the general meaning of collection ^; thedifference between it and the common crvvaycoyij isscarcely greater than between, say, the English collecting and collecting together : the longerGreek word was probably more to the taste of thelater period. The stone which has established the secularcharacter of this Bible word—the heathen stone ofSyme built into the alta
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. f the whole stele (including the portion previouslydiscovered). On the upper fragment of this stele we find ourword in the general meaning of collection ^; thedifference between it and the common crvvaycoyij isscarcely greater than between, say, the English collecting and collecting together : the longerGreek word was probably more to the taste of thelater period. The stone which has established the secularcharacter of this Bible word—the heathen stone ofSyme built into the altar of the Christian chapel of Jahreshefte des Osterreichlschen Arohaologischen Institutes in Wien, 7(1904) p. 81 fE. (with facsimile, p. 84) = ImcriptioTiea Graeoae, XII. 3 1270. Lines 11 and 12: tSs Sk liriffwayu/yas tov yivonivas 5ro\i/x/»o>/oi;, the collection, however, of the (sum to defray) expenses proving a matter oflong time (the translation was sent me by the editor, Hiller von Qaertringen,in a letter, Berlin, 18 July, 1905). * [In German Sauimlung and AmaiiimVung. Xb.]. Fig. 8.—Stele with decree of honour from Syme,Now in the chapel of St. Michael Tharrinos, the Imperial Austrian Archaeological Institute. 2nd cent. permission [p 102 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 103 St. Michael—may be taken as symbolical. It wiUremind us that in the vocabulary of our sacred Bookthere is embedded material derived from the languageof the surrounding world. Even without the stone we could have learnt thespecial lesson, for the Thesaurus Graecae Linguaehad already registered the word in the geographerPtolemy and in the title of the third book ofArtemidorus, the interpreter of dreams, both of the2nd century and later in Proclus. Such post-Christian late passages, however, generally failto impress the followers of Cramers method, andtherefore the pre-Christian, and (if importance beattached to the book) pre-Maccabean inscription isvery welco
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