MR. TAYLOR' S SECOND REPLY. 121 



A pcrvei-ted quotation rectified, 



passage is as follows : " Moreover, there has been witli miilti- 

 tucleSj for a long time past, a great desire to emulate our 

 religious customs : nor is there anywhero any city of the 

 Greeks, nor a single Barbarian nation, whither the institution 

 of the Hebdomade (which ice marh hy resting) has not 

 travelled j* and by •whom our fasts, and lighting of kraps, 

 and many of our prohibitions of food are not observed/' {^Con- 

 tra Apion, lib. ii. sect. 40.) 



Making due allowance for the natural exaggeration of an 

 apologist, the substance of this statement expresses a well- 

 recognized fact in Roman history. "' The institution of the 

 Hebdomade" (introduced about the date of the Christian era) 

 dkl travel almost throughout the empire. f But JosEPHUS, so 

 far from intending to assert that the Sabbath was ever a Gen- 

 ttlc ordinance, in the very next section, the eonclusion of his 

 elaborate vindication of the Jews, says : " If we have shown 

 that the original introduction of tliese inst itnt ions is our oicn, 

 let the Apions, and the Molones, and all the rest of those who 

 delight in fcilse reproaches, stand confuted !'^ {Cont. Ap. lib. 

 ii. sect. 41. )j; I claim Josephus as a strong indorser of the 

 Jewisli character of the Sabbath I 



'^' Ev9a |Un to tu? iCJo^aJo; [hv a^yovfxBV hfxUi) ro efloc ov ha.7TB(poiTWi. Jo- 

 SEPHUS does not say that the Greek and Barbarian rested ; but that 

 ^'we [the Jews] observe it by rest." 



j- DiON Cassius (a centm-y and a half later than Josephus) inf orms us 

 that, in his time, the custom of designating every recurring seven days 

 by the names of the planets, was practised everj^where ; and he refers 

 its origin — not to the Jews, but to the Egyptians. {Rom. Hist. lib. 

 xxxYii. ) 



Dr. Adams, in his work on "Roman Antiquities," observes: "The 

 ancient Ptomans did not divide their time into weeks as we do, in imi- 

 tation of the Jews .... This custqm was introduced under the Empe- 

 rors." [Rom. Antiq. chap. on ^^ Roman Year.") 



J Josephus invariably speaks of the Sabbath as peculiar to his own 

 people; — rcpeatedly designating it as their ancestral law, [Antiq. B. 

 xiv. ch. iv. 2 ; J. War. B. ii. ch. xvi. 4, &c.) — constautly exhibiting the 

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