[66] Acta Concitia, sub voce Laodicea, Canon iv. Lardner vi. p. 368.
[67] Gibbon's Decline and Fall, II. p. 267.
[68] The original authorities may be found collected in the fourth volume of Lardner's Credibility of the Gospel History; abstracts of them, with ample references, in Mosheim and Neander's Ecclesiastical Histories, and in Stanley's Eastern Church.
[69] Rawlinson's Historical Evidences, page 227.
[70] Origen Contra Celsum, passim.
[71] Lardner, Vol. IX. page 358.
[72] In fact, some persons were trying to impose a letter, "as from us," containing declarations, that the day of Christ was upon them.