. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. Fig. 52.—Marble Pedestal from Pergamum with anInscription in honour of a Priestess of Athene. ImperialPeriod. Now in the Berlin Museum. By permissionof the Directors of the Royal Museums. tp. 349 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 349 spring of Ares and Aphrodite, and common saviourof human life. An inscription from SocnopaeiNesus in the Fayfim, dated 17 March, 24 , givesto Augustus the title god of god ^; the calendarinscription of Priene (Figure 60) speaks of the birth-day of A
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. Fig. 52.—Marble Pedestal from Pergamum with anInscription in honour of a Priestess of Athene. ImperialPeriod. Now in the Berlin Museum. By permissionof the Directors of the Royal Museums. tp. 349 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 349 spring of Ares and Aphrodite, and common saviourof human life. An inscription from SocnopaeiNesus in the Fayfim, dated 17 March, 24 , givesto Augustus the title god of god ^; the calendarinscription of Priene (Figure 60) speaks of the birth-day of Augustus simply as the birthday of thegod ^; and, to mention one very remarkable instancefrom the time of St. Paul, Nero is actually called, ina votive inscription of the before-mentioned * GaiusStertinius Xenophon of Cos, the good god, w^ithwhich, for the sake of the contrast, one may comparethe classical saying in the gospel,^ There is no mangood, but one, that is God. Further quotationsfor the title god are unnecessary; the nets breakif we try to get them all.^ Merely as an oculardemonstration of the way in
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