Alexander Bala ascends the throne of Syria, i. 282; death of, 284.
Alexander Zebina, his son, claims the throne of Syria, ii. 16.

Alexander and Aristobulus, sons of Herod, sent to Rome, ii. 197; re-
turn of, 199; death of, 206.

Alexandra, wife of Jannæus, reigns over Judea nine years, ii. 23.
Alexandra, wife of Alexander, opposes Herod, ii. 189; death of, 193.
Alliances, political or conjugal, not allowed with idolaters, but permited
with proselytes, i. 54.

Altar purified at the end of three years and a half, by Judas, i. 261.
Amalekites, account of, i. 25.

Ananias, the high-priest, deposed, iii. 136.

Ananias appointed governor of Jerusalem, iii. 185.

Ananelius an obscure priest, made high-priest by Herod, ii. 189.

Anaxagoras, philosophy of, i. 86.

Antediluvians, race of, i. 10.

Antigonus Sochæus, first president of the Sanhedrim, i. 198.

Antigonus, son of Hyrcanus I. murder of, ii. 21.

Antigonus, son of Aristobulus, leads an army into Judea, assisted by

the Parthians, ii. 33.

Antiochus, governor of Asia Minor, assumes sovereignty, i. 171.
Antiochus Soter overcomes the Gauls, i. 189.

Antiochus Theos wars against Egypt, i. 191.

Antiochus the Great, i. 211; prohibits strangers from entering the tem-
ple, 219; defeated by the Romans, 223; robs the temple of Jupi-
ter Belus, 226; death of, ib.

Antiochus Epihanes, an hostage of Rome, obtains the crown of Syria,
i. 231; his vile character, 232; routs the Egyptians, 233; plunders
the country, 234; his victories in Egypt stopt by the Roman am-
bassadors, 235; puts the ambassadors of the Jews to death, 242;
his cruelty and profaneness at Jerusalem, 245; his persecution of
the Jews, 245, 249, 250, 251; endeavours to extirpate the worship
of the True God, 248; prepares to celebrate the Grecian games,
257; robs the temple of Elymais, 258; miserable death of, 262.
Antiochus Eupator, his son, succeeds, i. 269; Philip, appointed his gov-
ernor, seizes the throne, 269, 278.

Antiochus Sidetus, brother of Demetrius, becomes king of Syria, ii. 8;
first seeks the assistance of Simon, and then refuses his aid, and
sends Cendebeus to rob Jerusalem, 10, 11; grants peace to John
Hyrcanus, 14; death of, ib.

Antipas or Antipater, father of Herod, ii. 26; appointed_procurator of
Judea, 31; appoints his son Phasael, governor of Jerusalem, and
Herod governor of Galilee, ib.; death of, 33.

Antipas, son of Herod, declared his successor, ii. 208.

Antipater, son of Herod, ii. 204–207.

Antonia, fortress of, pontificial dresses kept in, iii, 79. 112.
Antony, Marc, despotic rule at Rome, ii, 132; account of 145, 148;
the Second Triumvirate, 148-152; dissipation and extravagance
with Cleopatra in Egypt, 159, 165; marries Octavia, 160; invades
Parthia, and subdues Armenia, 164; declares war against Octavius,
165; Senate divests him of his office, 166; battle of Actium, 168;
death of, 170.

Apostles appointed by Christ to rule his kingdom, iii. 48.
Appius Claudius renders the office of decemvir perpetual, ii. 46.
Arabia Felix, unsuccessfully invaded by Gallus, ii. 179.

Arabia Petræa reduced to a Roman province by Trajan, iii. 224.
Archelaus, son of Herod, appointed king of Judea, ii. 216; repairs to
Rome, 217; character of, ib.; made ethnarch, 221; banished to
Vienne, 220.

Aristobulus, grandson of Agrippa, made king of Armenia, iii. 126.
Aristotle, tutor of Alexander, anecdote of, i. 133.

Armenia, subdued by Marc Antony, ii. 165; conquest of, by the Ro-
mans, iii. 132; made a Roman province, iii. 225.

Arsinoe, sister of Cleopatra, ii. 130; exhibited in Cesar's triumph at
Rome, 137.

Artaxerxes Longimanus, character of, i. 52-78.

Artaxerxes Mnemon, reign of, i. 104; attempt to murder, by Cyrus,
106; revolt against, 108; death of, 119.

Artaxerxes Ochus, reign of, i. 121; overcomes Egypt, 125; kills their
God Apis, and carries their spoils to Babylon, 126; poisoned by
Bagoas, and his body given to be eaten by cats, 127.

Assideans, i. 267.

Assineus and Anileus governors of Babylonia, iii. 93.
Asmonean family, the last of, ii. 36.

Assyria conquered by Trajan, iii. 225.

Astrologers and magicians banished out of Italy, iii. 64.

Athaliah, wicked government of, i. 41.

Athrongas and his brother take the title of king of Judea, ii. 220.
Augustus, children and grandchildren of, iii. 52, 53; death of, 54.
August, how so named, ii. 182.

B

Bacchus adored by the Romans, iii. 12.

Baasha gains possession of the throne of Israel, i. 36.

Babylon, seige and capture of, i. 73; deserted, 187; conquered by Tra-
jan, iii. 225.

Babylus the Astrologer, iii. 155.

Bagoas or Bagoses, the Persian governor, lays a mulct upon the sacri-
fices of the Jews, i. 105; poisons Artaxerxes, and gives his body to
be eaten by cats, 127; death of, 130.

Bernice, sister of Agrippa, dismissed from Rome, iii. 212.

Boadicea, queen of Britain, iii. 169.

Boiscalus, noble speech of, iii. 131.

Brahmin, anecdote of, ii. 180.

Britannicus, son of Claudius, cruel treatment of, iii. 120; death of,

129; memory of, honored by Titus, 211.

Britons fight against the Romans, iii. 118, 168; subdued by Agricola,

210; converted by Augustin, iii. 250.

Brutus murders Cesar, ii. 143; death of, 155.

Burnt offerings, use of, iii. 32; unnecessary after Christ, 34.

Burrhus, chief of the Roman army under Nero, iii. 124; death of, 145.

C

Caiaphas, the high-priest deposed by Vitellius, iii. 79.

Cainites, character of, i. 10.

Calendar, Roman, corrected by Julius Cesar, ii. 140; afterwards by Oc-
tavius, 182.

Caligula, Caius, origin of the name, iii. 81; character of, 74; reign of,
favourable to the gospel, 80, 89; madness of, 84, 94, 97; death
of, 99.

Cambyses, character of, i. 76; contempt of idols, 84.

Camillus dictator, ii. 48.

Canaan, land of, given to Abraham and his seed for a possession, i. 14;
unappropriated when first taken possession of by Abraham, 14, 22;
comparative small extent of, 14, 22.

Canaan, seven nations of, expelled for their iniquity, ii. 31.

Canaanites, character of, i. 14; position of, suited for the publicity of
the true religion, 15.

Candace, queen of Ethiopia, invades Egypt, ii. 180.

Captives in Babylon, state of the, i. 50; liberated by Cyrus, ib,

Captivity of the Jews, secret effects of, on the surrounding nations, i, 83.
Caractacus fights against the Romans, iii. 118.

Carthage and Carthaginians, ii. 50; first punic war, 52; soldiers revolt,
57; second punic war, 60; New Carthage, 61-68; third punic
war, 74; Romans resolved to destroy Carthage, 76; vigorous de-
fence of the Carthaginians, 78; overcome by Scipio Paullus, and
Carthage declared a Roman province, 80; Carthage rebuilt by
order of Cesar, 136.

Cassius, ii. 153, 154.

Cassander takes the title of king of Greece, and Macedon, 1. 172.
Cataline, conspiracy of, ii. 110.

Cato advises war with Carthage, ii. 76; sayings of, 112, 114, 116;
death of, 135.

Centuries, Roman, ii. 46.

Cerinthus, the false teacher, iii. 235.

Cesar, Julius, settles the affairs of Judea, ii. 31; character of, 101-108;
governor of Spain, 111; of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul, 112;
jealous of Pompey, 115; engages in civil war, 118: robs the
treasury, 122; subdues Marseilles, 125; appointed dictator, ib. ;
nearly drowned in an open boat, 127; battle of Pharsalia, 128;
great rejoicings at Rome, in honour of, 136; receives four triumphal
processions, 137; offered the Crown, 139, and refuses it, 140; re-
ceives a fifth triumph, 141; honours paid to him, 142; death of,
143.

Cesar, Augustus, see Octavius.

Cesario, or Cesarea, built by Herod, ii. 195, 214; scene of blood in
time of Felix, iii, 116; murder of the Jews at, 174.

Cestius, governor of Syria, invades Judea, iii. 181; retires suddenly
from Jerusalem, 184.

Charlemagne, iii. 256.

Chederlaomer, first conqueror after Nimrod, i. 23.

Chief ruler in Israel, vicegerent of God, i. 275.

Christ, birth of, ii. 210, iii. 13; maketh himself known as the Messiah at
Nazareth, 19; divine nature of, 20; legitimate son of David, 21;
the Son of God, 23; impossibility of carrying on a scheme of de
ception, 37; supernatural education of, 42; unjustly condemned
by Pilate 44; evidence of resurrection, ib.

Christian societies increase under the apostles, iii. 51; first persecution
of, by the Jews, 79; flee from Jerusalem, and spread the gospel
everywhere, 80; early Christians not required to submit to circum-
cision, 89; viewed as a sect of the Jews, and admitted into the
synagogues, iii. 104; voluntary contributions of the first Christians,
104; increase at Rome under Claudius and Nero, 134; free from
persecution until the time of Nero, 136; blamed for setting fire to
Rome, and persecuted, 149, 150; flee from Jerusalem before its
destruction, 185; spread of Christianity by the influence of the
Roman dominion, 231; early corrupted by false teachers, 232;
persecution of, ib.; first heresy in the Church, 235; converts nu-
merous in the first century, 237; persecution at Antioch, iii. 242:
state of, according to Clemens Romanus, iii. 244, 251, 254; how
spread, 247, 248.

Christianity introduced into Britain, iii. 250; recommends itself in the
first ages to the poor, to the middle classes, and to nobility and
kings, 245; becomes the state religion under Constantine, 253.
Cinna, ii. 94, 95, 96.

Claudius Appius, general, ii. 94.

Claudius, son of Germanicus, marries a daughter of Sejanus, iii. 68;
called to the throne by the soldiery, 99; character and habits of,
101, 102; works of, 118; death of, 121.

Clemens, Romanus, extract from the writings of, iii. 245.

Clemens, imposture of, and death, iii. 65.

Cleopatra, wife of Demetrius, puts her son Seleucus to death, and is
afterwards slain by her son Grypus, ii. 16.

Cleopatra receives the throne of Egypt from Cesar, ii. 131; entertained
by Herod, 190; extravagance of with Antony, 159-164; death
of, 170.

Columba, the irish Monk, iii. 249.

Comitio, Roman, ii. 43, 47.

Constantine pretends to be a Christian, iii. 249.

Consuls, Roman, ii. 44.

Corinth, restored by order of Cesar, ii. 136.

Crassus robs Jerusalem, ii. 30; wealth of, 106; made governor of Syria,
113, 114; defeated and killed by the Parthians.

Cushites or Ethiopians invade Judah, i. 39.

Cyrenius, governor of Syria, ii..220.

Cyrus liberates the Jews, i. 50; subject of prophecy, 71; his contempt

of idols, ib.; conquests of, 72.

Cyrus II. son of Darius Nothus, i. 101, 106; death of, 110.

D

Daniel's vision of the He-Goat, i. 138; vision of the Fourth Beast, 181.
Daniel, Book of, explanation of vii. 6, viii. 5-8, 20-22, i. 172, 173;

vii. 7, 225; ix. fulfilled, iii. 45; xi. 5, 6, 183; ver. 7-9, 195; verses
10-12, 212; ver. 13, 17, 220; ver. 17-19, 220; ver. 20, 21, 227
objections against the book, confuted, 266.

Danube, bridge built across by Trajan, iii. 224.

Darius Hystaspes, i. 76.

Darius Nothus, i. 92; unsettled reign of, 99; death of, 101.

Darius Codomanus, character of, i. 129; proceeds with great pomp to

meet Alexander, 141; defeated at Issus, in Cilicia, 142; again at
Arbela, 152; slain, 154.

Dark Ages dispelled by the Reformation, iii. 257.

Decree of the Roman Senate against rhetoricians, i. 210; favour of the
Jews, ii. 200; iii. 79, 104.

Decemvirs, Roman, ii. 45.

Demetrius, son of Seleucus Philopator, ascends the throne of Syria,
i. 278; character of, ib.; Alexander Bala set up against him, 282;
death of, ib.

Demetrius, his son, sets up to gain the throne, i 283; grants privileges
to the Jews, 284; imprisoned in Parthia, ii. 8; regains his throne
after the death of Antiochus Sidetus, 14; character of, 16; death
of, ib.

Demosthenes, death of, i. 163.

Dictators, ii. 44.

Disjunction of Israel, under Jeroboam, a sign of the future decline of
the kingdom, i. 35.

Divine honours paid to Augustus and Tiberius, iii. 85; to Agrippa, 106.
Docetae, or Gnostics, iii. 235.

Doctrines taught to the Jews by Christ, ii. 39.

Domitian elected a Cesar, in absence of his father, iii. 209-214; suc-

ceeds to the throne, 214; character of, 214, 215; vanity and extrav-
agance of, 215; cruelty of, 216; persecutes the Christians, 219, 220;
assassination of, 221.

Drusus, character and history of, iii. 52; intrusted with the management
of the capital, 66 death of, 70.

E

Earthquake at Rhodes, i. 205; in Asia, destroys twelve cities, iii. 65.
Ebion, the false teacher, iii. 235.

Edicts in favour of the Jews, ii. 200; iii. 79. 104.

Edomites cast off the yoke of Judah, i. 40; return from the Babylonish
captivity, 95.

Effects of the Jews associating with the Greeks in the Persian Wars,
i. 102.

Egypt and Egyptians; the first great civilized nation, i. 16; state of,

previous to the days of Joseph, 23; wonderful monuments of, belong
to a later age than that of Moses, 24; owe much of their civiliza-
tion and religious rites to the Jews, ib.; customs of, forbidden to be
practised by the Jews, ib.; invade Judea, 99; ruled by strangers,
in fulfilment of prophecy, 126, 148; make war against Julius Cesar,
ii. 131; becomes a Roman province, 170.

Eleazar, Jewish chief of banditti, iii. 113.

Eleazar, governor of the temple, iii. 179; appointed governor of Idumea,

185.

Elijah, the prophet, spoken of by Malachi, iii. 14.

Epicharis, a courtesan, conspires against Nero, iii. 156.

Epicureans, iii. 12.

Era of the Seleucides, i. 170; of Ptolemy, 172.

Essenes, erroneously supposed to be the first Christians, i. 268.

Esther, supposed to be the wife of Artaxerxes Longimanus, i. 52, 79
Esther, book of, when finished, i. 176.