All the Extracts from the Greek and Latin are named; collected together and TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, by John Allen The Rev. Dr. GILES, LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD. London: JAMES CORNISH, 297, High Holborn; 1856. PREFACE. In this volume are contained all the notices of the Jewish nation which occur in the Greek and Latin Classics from the earliest period to the downfall of the great Roman empire, together with all the notices of Christianity found in any classical author previous to the year A. D. 200, and a few others from writers later still. The interest which these extracts generally excite in the mind of the ecclesiastical student, had led me to turn my attention to collecting them all together as an introduction to a complete collection of the "Writings of the Early Christians"; but some delay occurring in the publication of that book, this volume is now issued separately. The passages occurring in heathen writers concerning the Jews alone had already been collected by Meier in his Judaica, Jenæ 8vo 1852. These I have given somewhat more complete, adding those in which Christianity and the Christians are named, and with a literal English translation, which, it is thought, will not be despised even by the best scholars; for some of the extracts are very difficult to read; whilst on the other hand, it is thought the English reader will not object to have the original words of the writers placed in a parallel column with the English version. I may express a hope that the information to be derived from these extracts will throw much light upon the bible and Jewish history; and if sufficient encouragement is given to the enterprise, shall follow up this volume by several others containing all the Christian writings belonging to the first two or three centuries of the Christian era, and so render the original authorities for Primitive Christianity accessible to the English reader. London, 1856. J. A. G. 277150 |