magnificence could have raised, would have formed a monument more honourable to Christ and his Gospel, than that fabric to which every heathen of eminence has been constrained to contribute, by widening the ground of the evidence of religion, and by conspiring to establish its support, on the immovable basis of literature; and the universal consent of antiquity.

Abul Pharugius represents Zoroastres to have foretold the coming of the Messiah, I. 62.

Abydenus, I. 40. Mentions the deluge, 170. Relates the History of the Assyrians and Medes, 41.

Adonis, garden of, borrowed from sacred accounts, I. 160. acus obtained rain by prayer to God, I. 135. Eschylus, II. 77.

Esop, II. 73.

Agamemnon, his words to Calchus resemble those of Ahab to Micaiah, II. 42.

Agrippa visited Jerusalem, I. 114. Passed through Ionia with Herod the Great, ib. Wrote to the magistrates at Ephesus to favour the Jews, 116.

Agrippina accompanied Germanicus, I. 274.

Alcinous represents the gods as called down by sacrifices, II. 44.

Alexander the Great visits Jerusalem, I. 99. Orders new married persons to return to Macedonia, 101.

Alexander Polyhistor, I. 43.

Alexandria, Jews transported there by Alexander, I. 77. Altar at Athens, inscription to the unknown God, I. 129. Diogenes Laertius speaks of one erected at Athens to avert the plague, I. 129.

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America, Seneca's prediction of its discovery, II. 225.
Anaxagoras, his opinions, II. 105. note. Condemned to
death for saying that the sun was a ball of fire, I. 169.
Anointing of stones, custom of, derived from Jacob, I. 184.
Anquetil du Perron, his translation of the Zend-avesta, I. 54.
Anthony and Dolabella, I. 113.

make a league with Hyrcanus, I. 113.

Antioch, ænigmatical decree of the inhabitants of, II. 292.

note.

Antiochus the Great assisted the Jews with money for their
sacrifices, I. 17.

Antoninus, M. Aurelius, II. 273.

Apocryphal books, representations in them of the second.
person of the Trinity, I. 146.

Apollo, worship offered to him under the form of a serpent,
I. 162. Represented by Horace as intercessor, 240.
Oracle of, mentioned by Porphyry, speaks of the He-
brews, 262.

Apollonius Tyaneus, related by Philostratus, to have raised
a woman from the dead, I. 277.

Arabians, account of, by Diodorus, II. 231.

Aratus supposed to have been alluded to by St. Paul, I. 131.
Sentiment as to doing good to enemies, 225.

Argonauts, poem of, said to be composed by Onomacritus
or Pythagoras, II. 55.

Arion, story of, probably derived from that of Jonah, II.
122, and 246.

Aristæus, fable of, I. 186.

the Proconnesian, gives a history of Job, I. 45.
Aristobulus wrote a commentary on the Septuagint, I. 80.
Presented a vine to Pompey, 110. Spoke of a second
cause designated as the wisdom of God, 145. Remark
on Pythagoras, II. 69.

Ariston, sentiment as to doing good to enemies, I. 225.
Aristophanes, II. 161.

Aristotle, II. 166.

Ark, remains of, I. 39. 41. Rested on Mount Ararat,

Artapanus, I. 91. Mentions the passage through the Red Sea, 177.

Asphaltites, Account of, by Diodorus, II. 223.

Ass, wild, account of, by Xenophon, II. 143.

Athenians, first called Cranai, I. 98. St. Paul's description of them, 344.

Atonement, opinions concerning it, I. 252. Heathen Traditions of it, 235.

Augustus directs Norbanus Flaccus to protect the privileges of the Jews, I. 115. Flattered as the predicted king, 248.

Aurispa (John) translated, commentary of Hierocles, II.71. His opinion of the golden verses of Pythagoras, ib.

B.

Babylon, schools there, I. 12. 204. II. 120.

Bacchanalian orgies in the invocation of the serpent, seem to bear some relation to the first temptation, I. 164.

Balbec, II. 561.

Baris, ship so called, supposed by Bryant to represent the ark, I. 171.

Baucis and Philemon. Warburton supposes to be drawn from Lot and his daughters, I. 185.

Belshazzar's death described by Xenophon, in the same manner as foretold by the sacred writers, II. 141. Berenice offers her tresses at Zephyrium, I. 202. Berosus, I. 37. Acquired the Greek language when Alexander took Babylon, ib. Relates the account of Sennacherib's defeat, 39.

Blackmore, his poem on the creation, II. 331.

Boileau does justice to a passage in Longinus, II. 563. Brazen pillar at Alexandria records privileges conceded to the Jews by Julius Cæsar, I. 113.

Britons, II. 360.

Burke, his remarks on the sublime, II. 286.

C.

Cadmus, letters introduced by him, I. 94. and II. 122. Supposed by some to have been one of the inhabitants of Canaan when invaded by Joshua, I. 95.

Cave, Thomas, refutation of Lucretius, II. 331.

Cæsar Julius, II. 358.

Caiaphas succeeded to the priesthood in the time of Valerius Gratus, and deposed by Vitellius, I. 331.

Calchas, words of Agamemnon to him resemble those of Ahab to Micaiah, II. 42.

Caligula sent Petronius into Syria, I. 23.

Callimachus, II. 201. His description of the Cretans supposed to be alluded to by St. Paul, I. 280.

Calypso, the apostrophe resembles that in the song of Moses, II. 44.

Canaanites cast out for human sacrifices, I. 70.

Capthorim, the Lacædemonians claim affinity with them, I. 98.

Captivity in Assyria and Egypt confirmed the Jews in adherence to their rites, I. 284.

Carabas treated with mockery at Alexandria, I. 299.
Casius, Mount. Julian obtained favourable auspices there,
II. 291.

Cassius, Dion. Cocceianus, II. 279.

Castalian spring sources of opened by Julian, II. 291.

Cato, M. Portius, II. 306. Read the Phædo of Plato before he terminated his existence, II. 151.

Catullus and Tacitus speak of the corruption of human nature, I. 164.

Celsus erroneously considers sacred accounts to be derived from Heathen fables, I. 7.