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St. Peter having been imployed much among them, (the Apostleship of the Circumcision being committed to him) and being withdrawn into the Kingdom of Parthia, where he had planted a Church at Babylon, (not so desolate at that time, |
Saint Peter having been employed much among them, (the Apostleship of the Circumcision being committed to him) and being withdrawn into the Kingdom of Parthia, where he had planted a Church At Babylon, (not so desolate At that time, |
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| Note 1 |
Although Babylon were very much exhausted, by the Neighbourhood of Seleucia first, and afterwards of Ctesiphon; yet I see no Reason to conclude that Babylon was not then capable of having a Church in it, when S. Peter wrote this Epistle. For Iosephus, lib. 18. owns, that there was in Babylon NONLATINALPHABET in the time when Hyrcanus was sent thither; and out of such a multitude of Iews a Church might easily be gathered. The Calamities which befell the Iews of those parts afterwards rather reach to the Country than the City of Babylon. And when such Numbers of Iews are allowed to have been after them in Ctesiphon, Nearda and Nisibis, which were all Cities in those parts, I see no cause to question that there were great Numbers of Iews at that time in Babylon; since even in Trajan 's time, they are confessed to have been very numerous in Mesopotamia. Strabo, lib. 16. saith, that a great part of Babylon was deserted in his time, and so it might well be, and leave room enough for a Christian Church to be there notwithstanding. So that no reason appears sufficient to me to take Babylon in any other sense, than for the City generally known by that name, without flying to any Mystical sense, or a Strong place in Egypt bearing that name; there being less probability of a Church in a Garrison, as Strabo describes it, than in the Remainders of so great a City. |
Although Babylon were very much exhausted, by the Neighbourhood of Seleucia First, and afterwards of Ctesiphon; yet I see no Reason to conclude that Babylon was not then capable of having a Church in it, when S. Peter wrote this Epistle. For Iosephus, lib. 18. owns, that there was in Babylon in the time when Hyrcanus was sent thither; and out of such a multitude of Iews a Church might Easily be gathered. The Calamities which befell the Iews of those parts afterwards rather reach to the Country than the city of Babylon. And when such Numbers of Iews Are allowed to have been After them in Ctesiphon, Nearda and Nisibis, which were all Cities in those parts, I see no cause to question that there were great Numbers of Iews At that time in Babylon; since even in Trajan is time, they Are confessed to have been very numerous in Mesopotamia. Strabo, lib. 16. Says, that a great part of Babylon was deserted in his time, and so it might well be, and leave room enough for a Christian Church to be there notwithstanding. So that no reason appears sufficient to me to take Babylon in any other sense, than for the city generally known by that name, without flying to any Mystical sense, or a Strong place in Egypt bearing that name; there being less probability of a Church in a Garrison, as Strabo describes it, than in the Remainders of so great a city. |
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