Metellus, ii. 77.

Miracles of Christ, done openly, iii. 42.

Miraculous gifts bestowed on the apostles, iii. 43; and by them on others

49; die with the apostles, 50.

Mishna, the, or oral law, i. 67, 70.

Moabites return from the Babylonish captivity, i. 95.

Mosallem, the Jew, anecdote of, i. 169.

Moses, laws of, an enlargement of the patriarchal, i. 24; first liberal
constitution, 57; benevolent nature of, iii. 31; only laws which
provided for the poor, 109.

Mother eats her child at Jerusalem, iii. 190.

Mysteries, nature of the ancient heathen, i. 81, 82.

N

Nebuchadnezzar destroys the temple, and carries the Jews into captivity,
i. 46.

Nectanibus, king of Egypt, defeated by Artaxerxes Ochus, i. 121.
Nehemiah, state of the Jews under, i. 52, 94, 95.

Nero, marries Octavia, daughter of Claudius, iii. 121; chosen emperor,
122; good conduct of, for five years, 123-127; proceeds to every
species of folly and cruelty, 129; attempts his mother's life,
139-143; remorse of, 143, 144; divorces Octavia, and marries
Poppæa, 145; fondness of racing and harping, 148; sets fire to the
city of Rome, 147; builds his golden palace, 153; conspiracy
against, 155; performs as a player, 159; proceeds to Greece to
contend at the games, 161; returns in triumphal procession, 163;
his death, 166--168.

Nero, a false, iii. 218.

Nerva, account of, iii. 222; death of, ib.

Nicanor, governor of Media, defeated by Seleucus, i. 169.

Nicanor, sent by Demetrius to punish the Jews, i. 279; death of, 280.
Nineveh, conquered by Trajan, iii. 225.

Noah and his family, characters of, i. 12; alive in the days of Abra-
ham, 13.

Novatian, iii. 255.

Octavia, wife of Antony, and sister of Cesar, ii. 160.

Octavia, wife of Nero, iii. 121; divorced, 145; death of, ib.
Octavius Cesar, account of, i. 146; appointed proprætor, 147; joins
Antony and Lepidus, 147-159; sacrifices 400 senators to the
manes of Julius Cesar, at Perusa, 158; overcomes Lepidus, 162;
overcomes Antony at Actium, 168, 169; deep policy of, on becom-
ing sole master of the Roman empire, 171; receives the name of
Augustus, 175; assumes the office of pontifex maximus, 182.

Old Testament completed in the reign of Artaxerxes, i. 79.
Onias, the high-priest, corrects the Sacred Canon, i. 197.

Onias II. refuses to remit the tribute to the king of Egypt, i. 201.

Onias III. deposed, and his office sold to Jason, i. 233.

Onias, his son, flees to Egypt, and builds a temple there, i. 277; erro.
neous interpretation of prophecy by, ib.

Otho, appointed emperor, iii. 201; sensuality of, 203; death of, 204.

P

Pallas, brother of Felix, riches of, iii. 127.

Parthians, account of, i. 192; ii. 33; defeated by Venditus, 160; send
an embassy to Cesar Augustus, 179; conquered by Trajan, iii. 225.
Paul, travels of, iii. 115-117; goes to Rome, 133; death of, 153.

Peluseum, siege of, i. 125.

Pentateuch, Samaritan, i. 97.

Perdiccas, death of, i. 164.

Persepolis, i. 153.

Persians, their contempt of idols, i. 84.

Persecution the means of spreading Christianity, iii. 247.

Peter cast into prison by order of Agrippa, iii. 105; death of, 153.
Pharaoh, army of, drowned in the Red Sea, i. 25.

Pharisees, account of, i. 68; opposed by John Hyrcanus, ii. 18; tradi
tions of, enforced by his grandson Hyrcanus II., 24.

Phasael, governor of Jerusalem, ii. 31; beats out his own brains, 33.
Pheroras, brother of Herod, ii. 197.

Philip of Macedon, character of, i. 131, 133.

Philip II., i. 210, 217, 218.

Philippi, battle of, ii. 154.

Philosophers and Philosophy, heathen, i. 81-91, 199; iii. 10, 236.

Pilate, character of, ii. 232; attempts to rob the treasury, 233; deposed
by Vitellius, 234; banishment and death, ib.; letter of, to Tiberius,
235.

Plato, philosophy of, i. 89, spread of, 90.

Pliny the elder perishes in Vesuvius, iii. 212.

Pliny the younger's account of the early Christians, iii. 238.
Pompeii destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius, iii. 212.

Pompeiopolis, how named, ii. 109.

Pompey marches to Jerusalem, ii. 28; takes it, and enters the holy of
holies, 29; contrasted with Cesar, 101; character of, 101, 107;
magnanimous conduct of, 104; subdues the pirates, 109; triumphal
procession, 110; governor of Spain, 112; sole consul, 116; wars
with Cesar, 118-126; battle of Pharsalia, 128.

Pompey's son defeated by Cesar, ii. 140; makes peace with Antony
and Octavius, 160; death of, 162.

Poor denied the benefits of religious rites in ancient times, i 82.

Poppaa, a Jewish proselyte, iii. 134; married to Nero, 145; death, 160.
Pope, or bishop of Rome, assumed power of, iii. 256.

Posts, first introduced by Cesar Augustus, ii. 175.

Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, takes Jerusalem by treachery, and carries
the inhabitants captive, i. 166; and, for their fidelity afterwards
grants them equal privileges with the Greeks, ib.; takes the title
of king of Egypt, 172; era of, ib.

Ptolemy Philadelphus, reign of, i. 174-193.

Ptolemy Evergetes, reign of, i. 194–210.

Ptolemy Philopator, character of, i. 212; persecutes the Jews, and en-
deavours to enter the temple, 213.

Ptolemy Epiphanes, i. 217.

Ptolemy Philometor defeated by Antjochus, i. 234; assisted by the
Romans, 235.

Ptolemy Evergetes II. or Physcon, set on the throne, i. 234.

Ptolemy Macron, governor of Syria, favours the Jews, i. 269.
Ptolemy Abubus, base murder and treachery by, ii. 12.

Ptolemy, brother of Cleopatra, ii. 130.

Pul, king of Assyria, invades Israel, i. 38.

Punic War, first, ii. 52; second, 60; third, 75.

Purification and dedication of the altar at the end of 1260 days, i. 260.

Rabbins, arrogance of, i. 69, 70.

R

Reformation dispels the reign of darkness and ignorance, iii. 257.
Religion, pagan, a corruption of the true, i. 12; principles of, 81, 82.
Religion, true, spread of by the Jews in Greece, i. 102, 187.

Religion and morals, previous to the coming of Christ, iii. 5-10.
"Remnant of Israel," described, i. 49.

Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks, i. 110, 111; effects on the Persian em-
pire, 112.

Retribution, doctrine of, taught by the patriarchs, i. 13, 18.
Romans, character of, before and after their intercourse with Greece,
i. 208, 209; constitute themselves governors of the young king of
Egypt, Ptolemy Epiphanes, 219; effects of their conquest of Asia,
225; letters to Judas Maccabeus, 272, 273; to Simon, ii. 8, 9;
political character of, 38; empire, the fourth beast of Daniel, 39,
183; legislative system, 40; traditional origin, 42; laws borrowed
from Greece, 45; twelve tables of laws, 48; provide themselves
with a naval force, 54; make peace with Carthage, 55; conflict
between the patricians and plebeians, 82; claim the Carthaginian
possessions in Spain, 83; agrarian law attempted to be introduced,
84; corruption of the magistrates, 89; senate obliged to sit in
Thessalonica, 125; at Utica, 132; extent of the Roman republic
under the second triumvirate, 167, 176; republic extinguished under
Cesar Augustus, 176; revenue and taxes, 177, 178; moral degra-
dation of, 180; influence of civilization on the subdued provinces,
184;
become acquainted with divine revelation, 186; licentiousness
of, iii. 12; debasement of, under Caligula, 85; numbers of, become
converts to the Jewish and Christian religions, 113; greatness
under Trajan, 227; roads, 228; commerce, 230; mines, ib.; in-
fluence in spreading Christianity, 231.

Rome, conflagrations in the city, ii. 57; iii. 147, 213; number of citi-
zens under Tiberius Gracchus, ii. 84; extent of buildings, ib.; men
of learning invited thither by Cesar, 138; great famine at, 160;
great sea-fight in, iii. 218.

S

Sabinus, sent from Rome to manage the affairs of Syria, ii. 218.
Sacred Writings, love of Jews for, i. 61, 69; genuine antiquity of, 62;
collated by Ezra and Nehemiah, 61, 65; divisions of, by the Jews,
62; character anciently written in, 65; transcribers of, 66; cor.
rected by Onias I., 197.

Sacrifice, of divine origin, i. 11.

Sadoc, originator of the Sadducees, i. 200.
Sadduc, insurrection of, ii. 232.

Sallust, the historian, employed by Cesar, ii. 134, 135.

Salome, sister of Herod, ii. 192; malicious disposition of, ii. 204.

Samaria, city of, built by Omri, i. 36.

Samaritans, ancient character of, i. 95; character of modern, 96; peti-
tion Alexander, 151; deny being Jews, 247.

Sanhedrim, origin and account of, i. 56.

Saul, conversion of, iii. 87; first who preached to the Gentiles, 88.
"Scattered abroad," origin of term, i. 220.

Scriptures, Greek version used in synagogues, i. 61;. iii..36.

Sicarii, account of, iii. 179.

Scipio, Publius and Cneius, defeated by Hannibal, ii. 63; death of, 68.
Scipio, the younger, is sent to Spain, ii. 68; returns to Rome with much
treasure, 69; sails for Utica, 70; reduces Carthage, 71.

Scipio Paulus III. subdues and destroys Carthage, ii. 80.
Scipio Nisica, advises peace with Carthage, ii. 75, 86.

Scipio, father-in-law of Pompey, opposes Cesar, ii. 133.

Sejanus, ambition and cruelty of, iii. 67-70; death of, 74.

Seleucus, one of Alexander's successors, recovers Babylon, i. 170; era

of, ib.; takes the title of king of Syria, 171.

Seleucus, son of Antiochus, i. 186; death of, 189.

Seleucus Callinicus, i. 195, 203.

Seleucus Ceranus, i. 211.

Seleucus Philopator, character of, i. 227; robs the temple, 229; poisoned,

231.

Seneca, history of, iii. 123, 124; death of, 158.

Septuagint version of the Scriptures made by order of Ptolemy Phila-

delphus, ii. 103.

Sertorius, character of, ii. 103; anecdote of his tame deer, 105.

Seventy years captivity, commencement of, disputed, i. 52.

Shem, race of, alone retained the true religion, i. 13.

Shepherd kings, supposition regarding, i. 25, 26.

Shishak, king of Egypt, invades Judah, i. 39.

Sicily, occasion of the first Punic war, ii. 52; declared a Roman prov.
ince, 56.

Sidon, destruction of, i. 122.

Signs seen in the heavens, i. 231, 244, 272.

Simon of Sidon, pretends to be a son of Herod, ii. 222

Simon, the magician, iii. 235.

Slave of Herod usurps the diadem, ii. 219.

Smerdis, the impostor, i. 76, 85.

Socrates, philosophy of, i. 86; life and death of, 102

Spartacus, insurrection of, ii. 106.

Spintriæ, iii. 12.

T

Talmuds, absurdity of, i. 67.

Tarquin, first king of Rome, ii. 44.

Temple destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, i. 46; rebuilt by Nehemiah, 94
adorned by Herod, ii. 195; destroyed by the Romans, iii. 192.

Temple of Diana in Ephesus burned by Erostratus, i. 131.

Ten Thousand, retreat of the, i. 110; effects on the Persian empire, 112
Ten Tribes, decline and captivity of, by Shalmanezer, i. 38.

Theocracy of the Jews, iii. 6.

Theodosius the Great, iii. 255.

Theudas or Judas, the impostor, iii. 108.

Tiberius Gracchus, ii. 83; death of, 86.

Tiberius, character of, ii. 183; iii. 53–55, 58; appointed equal with
Augustus, 56; satirical lines on, 61; encourages spies, 62; liberality
of, 65; retires from public life, 71; government of, 75; habits and
character of, 77; death of, 78.

Tiberius, son of Tiberius, death of, iii. 84.

Tissaphernes, Persian governor of Asia Minor, i. 107, 113.

Titus, left by his father to besiege Jerusalem, iii. 188; anxiety to save
the people and temple, 190, 192; made colleague with his father;
209; character of, 211; death of, 213.

Tower of Pharos destroyed, i. 176.

Traditions of the heathen, evidently derived from Noah, i. 12.

Traditions of the Jews, i. 67, 197.

Trajan, adopted by Nerva, iii. 222; account of, 223; conquers the Da-
cians, 224; conquests of, 224-227; letter to Pliny regarding the
Christians, iii. 238.

Tribunes, Roman, ii. 44, 45.

Triumvirate, first, ii. 111; second, proscriptions, confiscations, and
murders of, 148-152; new division of the empire by, 155, 160.
Tryphon, the chief magistrate of Antioch, usurps the power of Syria,
i. 285; murders Jonathan the high-priest and Antiochus, infant
son of Alexander Bala, 287; ii. 8; death of, 10.

Tyre, magnificence of i. 144.

V

Varus, governor of Syria, ii. 218-220.

Ventidius Cumanus, procurator of Judea, iii. 111, 113.

Vespasian lands in Britain, iii. 118; appointed governor of Judea, 187;
appointed emperor, 188; history of, 207; elected by the senate,
209; works miracles in Egypt, ib.; character, 210; death, 211.

Virginius, governor of Germany, iii. 164.

Vitellius, emperor, iii. 204; sensuality of, 205

Viriathus, Carthaginian general, ii. 83.

W

World political and commercial state during the age of Moses, i. 19.

X

Xerxes, defeat at Thermopyla, and death, i. 78.

Z

Zedekiah defeated and deprived of sight by Nebuchadnezzar, i. 48.
Zoroaster, i. 85.