to be by far the most valuable
cursive MS. in existence. See Scrivener's "Codex Augiensis," Introd.
lxviii., and p. 425. Cambridge, 1859.

[250:1] John xvii. 21.

[250:2] Eph. iv. 16.

[250:3] See Col. ii. 19.

[251:1] Acts viii. 14.

[251:2] Acts xi. 22. "No notion is more at variance with the spirit of
apostolic Christianity than that of societies of Christians existing in
the same neighbourhood, but not in communion with each other, and not
under a common government."--_Litton_, p. 450.

[251:3] 2 Cor. viii. 19.

[251:4] Period I. sec. iii. chap. i. p. 214.

[251:5] "That the Church did really derive its polity from the synagogue
is a fact upon the proof of which, in the present state of theological
learning, it is needless to expend many words."--_Litton's Church of
Christ_, p. 254.

[251:6] See Selden, "De Synedriis," lib. ii. c. 5; Lightfoot's "Works,"
iii. 242, and xi. 179. Josephus says that Moses appointed only seven
judges in every city. "Antiq." book iv. c. 8, Sec. 14. See also "Wars of
the Jews," ii. c. 20, Sec. 5.

[252:1] Luke xxii. 66; Acts v. 21, vi. 15. See also Prideaux, part ii.
book vii., and Lightfoot's "Works," ix. 342.

[252:2] Matt. xvi. 21, xxvi. 59; Mark xv. 1. See also Lightfoot's
"Works," iv. 223.

[252:3] 1 Chron. xxiv. 4, 7-18.

[252:4] Acts v. 34.

[252:5] As they represented the people, and were probably twenty-four in
number, there may be a reference to them in Rev. iv. 4.

[252:6] Matt. v. 22.

[253:1] Deut. xvii. 8-10; 2 Chron. xix. 8-11; Ps. cxxii. 5.

[253:2] Acts ix. 1, 2, 14.

[253:3] Acts ii. 14, 41, 42, iv. 4, 32, 33, 35, v. 14, 42, vi. 6, 7,
viii. 14.

[253:4] Acts xiii. 1, 3.

[253:5] Titus i. 5.

[253:6] 1 Tim. iv. 14.

[253:7] In the same way the Puritans, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
frequently held meetings in London during the sittings of Parliament.
See Collier, vii. 33, 64.

[254:1] For a more particular account of the constitution of the meeting
mentioned in the 15th chapter of the Acts, see Period I. sec. i. chap.
v. p. 82.

[255:1] Acts xv. 6.

[255:2] Acts xv. 19. "James, according to the somewhat pompous rendering
in our English version, says--'Wherefore _my sentence is_'--in the
original--[Greek: dio elo krina]--a common formula by which the members
of the Greek assemblies introduced the expression of their individual
opinion, as appears from its repeated occurrence in Thucydides, with
which may be compared the corresponding