[12] See page 201.
[13] See the map, page 107.
[14] Isocrates, Panegyricus, 29.
[15] See page 54.
[16] Soli Invicto Mithrae. An interesting survival of Mithra worship is the date of our festival of Christmas. The 25th of December was the day of the great annual celebration in memory of the Persian deity. In 274 A.D. the emperor Aurelian raised a gorgeous temple to the sun god in the Campus Martius, dedicating it on the 25th of December, "the birthday of the Unconquerable Sun." After the triumph of Christianity the day was still honored, but henceforth as the anniversary of the birth of Christ.
[17] The exact date of the crucifixion is unknown. It took place during the reign of Tiberius, when Pontius Pilatus was procurator of Judea.
[18] Tertullian, Apology, 37.
[19] See page 199, note 1.
[20] The meeting was called ecclesia from the Greek word for "popular assembly." Hence comes our word "ecclesiastical."
[21] Whence the word "priest."