A History of the Jews in Rome. B.C. 160-A.D. 604 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... which St. Paul warned Timothy and Titus in his pastoral epistles to those shepherds of the flock of Christ. But on the authority of standard ecclesiastical historians we may believe that St. Paul was a second time arrested, and after an imprisonment, more rigorous than the former one, was put to death. He must have been permitted to see or to communicate with friends in Rome, as he sent their greetings to Timothy.f Peter's name is not mentioned, although, according to Eusebius, he was in Rome, and he and St. Paul took their last missionary journey together before they were imprisoned. This does not harmonize with the story of Paul's arrest at Troas, and incarceration at Ephesus; but he may have been liberated, or partially so, for a short time. Not long before this, when the Neronian persecution was raging, St. Peter was at Babylon, safe there, as that city belonged to Parthia. At Babylon he wrote his first epistle, while St. Mark was with him.f He may have gone thence to Rome, and there have met St. Paul; but we cannot rely on Eusebius, as all the earliest ecclesiastical chroniclers accepted traditions that would be rejected by modern historians; but whatever we may say of such stories, it remains probable that St. Peter came to Rome, and there suffered martyrdom. Germs of truth are likely to exist in traditions beginning in the age to which they refer; and with regard to St. Peter, Papias, Irenaeus, Clement of Alex 1 Tim. i. 4, iv. 7; Titus i. 14. t Possibly Linus, named in 2 Tim. iv. 21, may be the first Bishop of Rome mentioned by Irena;us and Eusebius. Archdeacon Williams suggests that Pudens, also greeted by St. Paul, may have been a Roman of that name, who was once stationed in Britain, who married a British lady, possibly the daughter of Caractac...