lousness of Thomas, 389. the ends of his ministry and death,
531-533. he did not use force, 533. his character by Palla-
dius, v. 7
He had a human soul and body, x. 78, &c. according to the
ancient catholic christians, 116. was not an angel, 174-5.
is the Messiah, vi. 594. why called Christ, iv. 557. his great
dignity as the Messiah, x. 100-102. not reputed to be God
while on earth, either by the Jews or by his disciples, v. 21
why called the Son of God, 123, ix. 366–371. x. 92-97
Apocryphal books concerning his nativity, and that he left
no written volume, iv. 465-6. his nativity according to Tal-
mudical writers, vi. 516. his journey into Egypt according to
the same writers, 517-519. his disciples according to them,
520-522. and his last sufferings, 522–524
Jesus, or Joshua, the son of Ananus, his remarkable story, vi.
452-3, 457
Jewish believers, their opinion concerning the person of Christ,
iii. 441, note . see Ebionites and Nazarenes. The faith of
early Jewish believers a valuable testimony to the truth of the
christian religion, vi. 371-387. their faith a great virtue,
Jewish canon, by whom received. See Canon
Jewish unbelievers, how they treated the primitive christians, vi.
388-392
Jews had the free exercise of their religion in Judea, i. 35, 36.
their civil state in Judea, according to the evangelists, 37-76.
according to other ancient writers, 76-107. could imprison
men, 57, 58. could inflict lesser penalties, 42, 43, 57-59, 81,
82. had a council, 44, 57, 81. could not legally inflict capital
punishments, 48–51, 69–76, 88. objections against that sup-
position considered, 51-57. had a council at Alexandria,
85, 86. decided little differences among themselves at Sardis,
88. privileges bestowed upon them by the Romans and others,
183, &c. excused by the Romans from military service, 240,
278. and from appearance in the courts of judicature on the
Sabbath and the preparation, 186. were riotous, 94, 95, 209.
practised polygamy, 39. and divorces, 38, 39, 411. were very
corrupt and wicked, 145-148. numerous out of Judea, 112—
114. their twelve tribes in being at the time of our Saviour and
his apostles, 114. the registers of their families also then in
being, 282. expected the Messiah, 137-139, 142-3. required
a sign, 139-40. why they rejected Jesus, 144-5. their sin in
rejecting him very great, vi. 425, 584-590. their enmity to
the first christians, i. 94, 172-3, 179-80, 207–210. vi. 388—
392. were numerous at Rome, i. 118-19, 186. banished from
Rome by Tiberius, 186. by Claudius, 259. uneasy under the
Roman government, 227. their request to be under a Roman
governor after the death of Herod, 82, 303. crucified by the
Roman soldiers before the walls of Jerusalem, vi. 444-5, 462,
545. ript up for the sake of treasure, 446, 544, the numbers
that perished at the siege of Jerusalem, and elsewhere, 462,
470, 550-1. many compelled to fight in amphitheatres, 465,
551. required to pay tribute to the capitol at Rome, 469, 646.
the advantages which christians have from the dispersion and
subsistence of the Jews, iv. 530-1. their circumstances a cogent
argument for the truth of the christian religion, vi. 590. Three
Discourses on this subject from Rom. xi. 11. ix. 60—91
Ignatius, Bp. of Antioch, his time, ii. 73, 74. the smaller epis-
tles ascribed to him genuine, 76. according to Dr. Jortin, who
rejects the Apostolical Constitutions, v. 179-80. his testimony
to the books of the New Testament, ii. 78, &c. how quoted by
Origen, 532. the time of his martyrdom, 77. vii. 20, 21, 61
Imperial laws concerning Gentile people and their worship, viii.
Imprisonment, the Roman method, i. 244
Right Improvement of time, a sermon, ix. 470
India, christians there, v. 101
Infants at Bethlehem, their slaughter mentioned by christian
writers, and by Macrobius a heathen author, i. 353-4. why not
related by Josephus, 346-352
Innocent I. Bp. of Rome, persecutes the Novatians, iii. 104. his
Catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testament, iv.
586
Inquisitiveness in things of religion recommended, ii. 649-50.
vii. 76
Inscription, in honour of Titus after the conquest of Judea, vi.
479. concerning the christians in the time of Nero, 623
Instrument, that word sometimes used by Latin writers instead
of Testament, v. 261
Job, his book said to be written by Moses, iii. 189. his dunghill
visited by superstitious people in Chrysostom's time, iv. 569
John the Baptist, the Manichæan opinion of him, iii. 596-7. the
boundary of the Old and New Testament, v. 30. said to have
been baptized by Christ, 122. how he was revered for his aus-
tere character by Josephus and many other Jews, vi. 484—
486. the genuineness of the paragraph concerning him in the
works of Josephus asserted, 481-485
JOHN (ST.) APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST; his history from the
New Testament, v. 399-411. called the Divine, iv. 585. v.
14, 94. by Eusebius, iv. 118. Athanasius, 156. and Cyril, 174.
he was younger than Peter, and survived all the apostles, 588.
was related to the Lord, and why beloved above the other dis-
ciples, v. 160. had three mothers, 161. when he left Judea to
go to reside at Ephesus, 412. was banished, ii. 287. by Do-
mitian into Patmos, where he wrote the Revelation, iv. 575. v.
140. the time of his banishment, 414-425. how long he was
there, and when he returned to Ephesus, 425-427. his age
when he was called to be an apostle, and at the time of his
death, 411. he lived to the time of Trajan, iv. 446. and his age,
446-7. what Suidas says of his great age, 549-50. several
things said of him by ancient ecclesiastical writers, v. 412--
414. several stories concerning him rehearsed and examined, iv.
447-450. whether he met Ebion, or Cerinthus, at a public
bath in Ephesus, ii. 95. whether he was cast into a cauldron
of boiling oil, 287. he raised a dead man to life at Ephesus,
393. said to have delivered a creed to Gregory Thaumaturgus,
613. his superior knowledge of the doctrine of the Trinity, 635.
why he and his brother James were surnamed by our Lord
Boanerges, v. 401-403. whether he followed our Lord to the
high-priest's and let in Peter, 405-407. why our Lord com-
mitted the care of his mother to him, 407
His great excellence, and the superiority of his gospel above
those of the other evangelists, and above Peter, iv. 446-7, 503,
638-9. v. 14. his gospel was not written by way of opposition
to any heretics, 450-454. therein the errors of Cerinthus and
others confuted, 450. written the last of the four gospels, and
the occasion of writing it, and its superior excellence, ii. 170,
226. v. 158. the time and occasion of writing it according to
Victorinus, iii. 176. Theodore of Mopsuestia, iv. 398-9. the oc-
casion of writing it, 95, 398-9, 445, 538, 588. v. 94, 158. the
use and importance of it, iv. 540-1. the opinion of divers learned
moderns concerning the time when it was written, v. 530-
532. that it was written at Ephesus, 94. before the destruction
of Jerusalem about the year 68, 431-448. objections to this
considered, 448-456. his gospel not written till after the de-
struction of Jerusalem, iv. 541. before the destruction of
Jerusalem, v. 158. about the time of it, 168. many years
after it, 166. after his being in Patmos, 145. written the
last in the New Testament, 74. before the Revelation, 77. his
gospel and epistles written after his return from Patmos, and
after the death of Domitian, 145. his gospel said to be written
in Asia, 137. in Patmos, 160. at Ephesus according to Irenæus,
ii. 170. Ebedjesu, iv. 321
Testimonies of ancient writers to his gospel. v. 427-430.
referred to by Ignatius, ii. 80, 81. received by Justin M. 131.
Athenagoras, 196. Theophilus of Antioch, 206. called a spiri-
tual gospel, 226. his gospel and first epistle universally re-
ceived; his second and third epistles not so received in Ori-
gen's time, 494-5, 510-11. his gospel the first fruit of the gos-
pels, 515. quoted by Novatus, iii. 111, 113. by Dionysius of
Rome, 130-1. by Victorinus, 174. by Anatolius, 144. Theognos-
tus, 152. Archelaus, 258. his gospel and second epistle quoted
by Alexander of A. 567-8. his gospel and first epistle univer-
sally received in the time of Eusebius and before, iv. 94, 96.
his gospel mentioned with marks of great respect, 296, 333.
his gospel and epistles and Revelation received by Jerom, 436,
446-7. observations upon his gospel, 456–461. a commentary
upon it by Cyril of A. v. 13. respectfully quoted by Amelius,
vii. 373-4. he computes the hours of the day as the other evan-
gelists, after the Jewish manner, v. 449. x. 278–282
His three epistles; their genuineness, vi. 275-277. the time
of writing the first of them, 278–281. to whom it was sent,
281-284. observations upon the second epistle, 284-288.
upon the third, 288-298. when they were written, 298. his
first epistle referred to by Polycarp, ii. 108. and the martyrs
at Lyons, 164. quoted by Papias, 119, 123, 125. by Clement
of Alexandria, 242. by Tertullian, 293, 295. his first and
second epistles quoted by Irenæus, 180. his first epistle often
quoted by Dionysius of Alexandria, and his second and third
spoken of as ascribed to him, 694. whether his second and
third epistles were received by Cyprian, iii. 46, 47. his first
epistle quoted by Novatus, 118. by Commodian, 135 Metho-
dius, 197. Phileas, 236. and by the Novatians, 116. by Arche-
laus, 258. and by the Manichees, 404. his three epistles re-
ceived by the Paulicians, 448. the second and third not re-
ceived by all, iv. 96, 97, 124. his second epistle quoted by
Alexander, iii. 568. by Lucifer of Cagliari, iv. 250. Optatus,
328. his third epistle, and the Revelation, quoted in the Com-
mentary upon thirteen of St. Paul's epistles, 383. his first
epistle received by all, the other two doubted of, 446. his first
epistle said to be written to the Parthians, 510. v. 111, 145.
his three epistles received by Innocent, iv. 586. Arethas, v.
104 and all who had the same canon with that now generally
received; his second and third epistles doubted of by some, 136
The Revelation published in the time, and after the time, of
Domitian, iii. 179. but see 324-328. see Canon of the New
Testament, and Catholic Epistles, and the Revelation
John the elder, ii. 117, 121
John the publican at Cæsarea, his good character, i. 231
John of Gischala, how he escaped from that place, and got to
Jerusalem, vi. 434. taken prisoner, 550. and condemned to
perpetual imprisonment, according to Josephus, 463. the ac-
count of his death in Josippon, 550. see, likewise, 572
John, a martyr in Dioclesian's persecution, remarkable for his
memory, iii. 222
Jones (J.) quoted, ii. 40. iii. 52, 208. vi. 604, 640. his opinion
of the epistle ascribed to Barnabas, ii. 19. a remark of his
upon a passage in Justin M. 139. upon St. Mark's gospel, 232.
quoted and commended, v. 343. and elsewhere; thinks that
Seleucus, in Augustine's book of Heresies, is the same as Leu-
cius, but is mistaken, viii. 515. is mistaken also in making
Leucius a Manichee, 523-4
Jortin (Dr.) quoted, i. 466, 482. vii. 54, note, 95, note ', 338.
viii. 302. x. 97. notes, his observations upon M. Antoninus the
philosopher, vii. 135, 144. receives the Philosophy of Oracles
as a work of Porphyry, 444
Joseph, Husband of Mary, on what account he was obliged by
the decree of Augustus to enrol himself, i. 281. why he went to
Bethlehem to be enrolled, 281-2. a current tradition that he
was a widower, and had children by a former wife, viii. 527-8
Joseph, a Jew, beaten for reading the gospels, i. 43
Josephus (Flavius) the Jewish historian, his time, works, and
character, vi. 393-399. made governor of Galilee, i. 84. pre-
tended to prophecy, 295. was a firm Jew, 296, 351. his pas-
sages concerning a terrible execution at Jerusalem, in Herod's
time, 292-294, 366-7. remarks upon them, 293-300, 348-9.
calls Livia, Augustus's wife, Julia, 415. calls Caiaphas, Joseph,
416. his silence no objection against St. Matthew's history of
the slaughter of the infants, 346. shy of mentioning christian
affairs, 260. some remarkable omissions in his history, 340-
342. his speech to the Jews to induce them to surrender to Ti-
tus, 285. how he flattered Vespasian and Titus, 295-6. vi.
396, 418, 505. endeavoured to save the honour of the Roman
government, and the Jewish nation, i. 229. his works not much
respected by the Jews, vi. 398, 532. his History of the Jewish
war, and the siege of Jerusalem, and the conquest of Judea,
425–470. the value of his testimony, 471–475. vii. 16. ob-
servations upon his writings and testimony, vi. 500–505. Two
passages concerning dæmoniacs, with remarks, i. 507-510.
his catalogue of the books of the Old Testament, iv. 429.
Three paragraphs in his works, the genuineness of which are
considered first, concerning John the Baptist, vi. 480–486.
second, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, 486-496. vii. 3—
16. correspondence with Dr. Chandler on this subject, i. xciv
-xcvii. some farther observations, xcvii-civ. third, concerning
James, the Lord's brother, vi. 496–499. what may have been
the reason of Josephus not having mentioned any thing con-
cerning our Saviour, 500-505. Josephus mentioned by Anato-
lius, iii. 143. by the author of the Imperfect Work, v. 123
Joseph Ben Gorion, or Josippon, his age, work, and character,
vi. 531-534, 556–558. his testimony to the Jewish war, the
siege of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the city and temple
by Titus, 534-555. observations upon his work, 556–558
Jotapata, the siege of that place, and the event of it, vi. 395
Jovinian, against whom Jerom wrote, iv. 408
Irenæus, bishop of Lyons, his character of Polycarp, ii. 96. his
history, time, works, and testimony to the scriptures, 165-
193. wrote no commentary upon the Revelation, 137, 182.
fragments ascribed to him, 189-90. the time and character of
his Latin interpreter, iii. 23–25. he was not a martyr, ii. 169.
vii. 311. his account of the Heretics, Basilidians, viii. 350-
352. Cainites, 561. Carpocratians, 394-399. Cerdon, 445.
Cerinthus, 404. Marcosians, 429-438. Marcionites, 448, &c.
Ophians, 565. Saturninus, 347. Sethians, 552, 555. he ob-
serves that the heretics bear testimony to the scriptures, 324-5.
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