[37] See pp. [189–90] and [200].
[38] Bishop Lightfoot has been referred to in this brief summary of the position of Christians during these two great reigns. This careful and exact scholar is most definite in his conclusions here, and his views exactly correspond with the views taken in this chapter.
[39] This especially refers to the ancient song of the Arval Brotherhood, of which college Marcus was also a member.
[40] Tacitus, Annals, xv. 44.
[41] Further details of Pliny’s report to the Emperor Trajan upon the numbers of Christians in his province will be found above, Book I. pp. [49–62].
[42] Pliny, Epist. ad Trajan, 96.
[43] Clement of Rome, Epist. ad Cor. vi.
[44] The quotation referred to is from the so-called 2nd Epistle of Clement of Rome (section 2), which Harnack attributes to Soter, bishop of Rome. Lightfoot, however, places the Epistle even earlier (circa A.D. 140), and considers it the work of an anonymous writer.
[45] Irenæus, adv. Hær., book iii. 2.
[46] Tertullian, Apologeticus, 1.