[147:3] This difficulty however cannot be regarded as serious. At the last (the sixtieth) anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the Times gave the names of no fewer than seventy-six Waterloo officers as still living.
[148:1] Chron. Pasch. p. 481 sq (ed. Bonn.); Euseb. H.E. iv. 15.
[148:2] There is no indication that the author of this Chronicle used any other document in this part besides the History of Eusebius and the extant Martyrology of Polycarp which Eusebius here quotes.
[149:1] The martyrdom of Papias is combined with that of Polycarp in the Syriac Epitome of the Chronicon of Eusebius (p. 216, ed. Schöne). The source of the error is doubtless the same in both cases.
[149:2] S.R. i. p. 448.
[149:3] I had taken the latter view in an article on Papias which I wrote for the Contemporary Review some years before these Essays; but I think now that the Apostle is meant, as the most ancient testimony points to him. I have given my reasons for this change of opinion in Colossians p. 45 sq.
[149:4] Acts xxi. 9.
[150:1] See above, p. 90.
[150:2] The chapter relating to Papias is the thirty-ninth of the third book; those relating to Polycarp are the fourteenth and fifteenth of the fourth book, where they interpose between chapters assigned to Justin Martyr and events connected with him.
[150:3] It is true that he uses the present tense once, [Greek: ha te Aristiôn kai ho presbuteros Iôannês … legousin] [see above, p. 143], and hence it has been inferred that these two persons were still living when the inquiries were instituted. But this would involve a chronological difficulty; and the tense should probably be regarded as a historic present introduced for the sake of variety.