[99] 1 Cor. v. 7, 8.
[100] Col. ii. 16.
[101] Justin, Dial., c. 40, 111. Tert., Adv. Marc., 4, 40; 5, 7.
[102] The Greeks of the province of Asia, for example, voluntarily adopted the Julian Calendar under Augustus, according to an inscription discovered at Priene. Révue Archéol, 1900, 357. Mitteil. des kaiserl. archäol. Instits at Athens, 1899.
[103] Ideler, Handbuch der Chronol., i. 433.
[104] Op. cit. 142.
[105] Ideler, Handbuch der Chronol., i. 113, 117, 119.
[106] So Ideler, who is certainly an authority, Handbuch der Chronol., i. 570 et seq.
[107] Josephus, Ant., i. 1, 3: ἐν χρίῳ τοῦ ἡλίου χαθεοτῶτος. Ideler, op. cit. 401, 514, 570.
[108] Nilles (p. 286) expressly declares himself opposed to the feast of Easter being fixed on a stated Sunday in April. According to information given in the Kölnischen Volkszeitung for the 22nd May 1894, the Barnabite Cæsar Tondini is said to be at work upon a reform of the Calendar, the chief features of which are the giving a fixed date for Easter and the transferring of the extra day in leap year to the end of the year. He is of opinion that this reform will be acceptable to the Russians also.