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FOOTNOTES:
[1] These are quoted on pp. [13–20] of Book I.
[2] A singular and interesting passage of Allard here deserves to be quoted verbatim: “Dans Rome où le celibat est devenu une plaie sociale, où la population diminue, où la stérilité regne au foyer domestique, où l’avortement l’infanticide sont fréquents et à peine reprimés, les Juifs seuls ont beaucoup d’enfants—Tacite a défini d’un mot ce trait de leur race; ‘generandi amor,’ dit-il en énumerant les principaux charactères du peuple Juif. Tous les témoignages anciens parlent de leur grand nombre; ‘augmenter était une de leurs préoccupations,’ ‘augendæ multitudini consulitur’ dit encore Tacite.” See Tacitus, Hist. v. 5; Allard, i. p. 12.
[3] Professor Ramsay in his book, The Church in the Roman Empire, prefers a later date for the composition of the First Epistle of St. Peter than that usually given, A.D. 64–5. He believes it was impregnated with Roman thought and was certainly written from Rome, but not before A.D. 80. This would give a long period of Roman work to the apostle; still—able as are Professor Ramsay’s arguments—the later date and all that it involves are absolutely at variance with the universal tradition.
[4] See the detailed account of this catacomb, Book IV. 261 and following pages.
[5] On these memories which belong to the house of Pudens and his family see pp. [262–270].
[6] Histoire ancienne de l’Église, vol. i. p. 61 (4th edition, 1908).
[7] It will be noticed that an interesting hypothesis dwelt on by Allard (Histoire des Persécutions, vol. i.) and by other writers has not been quoted among the foregoing testimonies. It is curious and deserving of notice, but it is at best only an ingenious supposition.
These scholars suggest that when S. Peter, after his deliverance through the interference of an angel guide, escaped from the prison of Herod Antipas and went to another place (Acts xii. 17), that the “other place” so mysteriously and strangely alluded to by the writer of the “Acts” signified Rome.