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TABLE III.-100-190 A.D.

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In the eyes of the Pagan historian, the period from the accession of Nerva, in 96 A.D., to the death of Marcus Aurelius, in 180 A.D., is memorable as a period of uniform good government, of rapidly advancing humanity, of great legislative reforms, and of a peace which was very rarely seriously broken. To the Christian historian it is still more remarkable, as one of the most critical periods in the history of his faith. The Church entered into it considerable indeed, as a sect, but not large enough to be reckoned an important power in the Empire. It emerged from it so increased in its numbers, and so extended in its ramifications, that it might fairly defy the most formidable assaults.— Lecky.

After the silver age which ended nobly with Tacitus and the younger Pliny, Latin pagan literature almost ceases to exist; and the falling off in the form is not more striking than in the value and quality of the contents. All superstitions revived and flourished apace in the ever-waning light of knowledge. A shudder of religious awe ran through the Roman world, and grew more sombre and searching with the progressive gloom and calamities of the time. A spirit wholly different from the light-hearted scepticism of the Augustan age and later Republic stirred men's hearts, and the strongest minds did not escape it.-Cotter Morison.

Parallel mit dem langsamen Einströmen des griechisch - philosophischen Elements gingen auf der ganzen Linie Versuche, die man kurzweg als "akute Hellenisierung" bezeichnen kann. Sie bieten uns das grossartigste geschichtliche Schauspiel; in jener Epoche selbst aber waren sie die furchtbarste Gefahr. Das zweite Jahrhundert ist das Jahrhundert der Religionsmischung, der Theokrasie, wie kein anderes vor ihm. In diese sollte das Christentum als ein Element neben anderen, wenn auch als das wichtigste, hineingezogen werden. Jener "Hellenismus," der das versuchte, hatte bereits alle Mysterien, die orientalische Kultweisheit, das Sublimste und das Absurdste, an sich gezogen und es durch das wie versagende Mittel der philosophischen, d. h. der allegorischen Deutung in ein schimmerndes Gewebe versponnen. Nun stürzte er sich-man muss sich so ausdrücken-auf die christliche Verkündigung.— Harnack.

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Epist. Barnabas, Agrippa Castor, Ilapadóσes Marlíov. Artemidorus, c. 130.

130-131.

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σιλείδου.

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Diogenianus.
(Herennius) Philo.
Byblius (Пept 'Iov-
δαίων).
Zenobius.

Arrian (hist.).
Moeris (gramm.), (?).
Atticus Herodes
(rhet.), 104-180.

Marcion in Rome, Appian (hist.).
c. 140.

Valentinus in Rome,
140-160; letters,
psalms, homilies.
Epiphanes. Marco-

sians.

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Marcion, "anti- Cl. Ptolemaeus

theses”; ἀποστο

σύνταγμα, etc.; λικόν.

"Apology," c.153; Herakleon, com

"Dialogue with
Trypho."

Tatian, Aóyos pòs

Ἕλληνας, ± 160 ;
Προβλημάτων
βιβλίον, etc.

(astron. geogr.),
130-160.

Hephaestio

ment. on 4th

(gramm.).

gospel, etc., 160. Ptolemaeus, μνήματα.

Celsus, λόγος

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Tatian, -175.

(lawyer).

Sextus Pomponius
(lawyer).
Aulus Gellius,

"Noctes Atticae.' M.Cornelius Fronto (rhet.), 100-175; 'Panegyric,"

-140.

Justinus,

tome" (?).

"Epi

Salvius Julianus (lawyer), c. 150. Granius Licinianus (annal.).

Junius Rusticus.

ἀληθής (177-180).

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