(7) In Palestine, Herod Agrippa II. This Herod was a great-grandson of Herod I the Great and son of Herod Agrippa I, and nephew of the I lerod, king of Chalcis. who married Salome. daughter of Herodias. Agrippa I1 succeeded his uncle in A. I). 48, and in A. I). 53 had the north ern part of Palestine, at which time he gave his sister Diusilla to Azizus of Emcsa, whom she left for Felix. Paul's coming before Agrippa and Felix must be as late as A. D. 54, and may be later.
(8) Felix and Festus in Palestine. Both the coming and the departure of Felix are involved in darkness. He seems, from the account of Josephus taken with that of Tacitus, to have been in Palestine in some subordinate position before he, being brother of Nero's favorite, Pallas, was made procurator or governor. Probably this occurred in A. D. 52. He was not removed before A. D. 56, and his trial at Rome was not later than 61. Some put his recall as early as 57, others in 6o. This difficulty seriously affects the dates of Paul's career and his two years of de tention at Cesarxa. Most students prefer the date A. D. 6o for the coming of Festus, putting the arrest of Paul in A. D. 58; his hearing before Festus, Agrippa, and Berenice and the voyage to Rome. A. D. 6o-6t. To fix his death at 64 or 68 is but guessing and not history. The author of " Quo Uadis' has liberty for his extrava gances under the maxim "Poe/is mentiri /fret:" the historian stops at the edge of his record.
(9) The Galatian Visit. Paul's conferences with other apostles are told of in Gal. i :18, to. and ii :t. If we date the conversion at A. D 36 and allow for the looseness of expression com mon among orientals, we may put the first visit in A. D. 38 and the next in so, as Conyheare and Howson do. Or putting the second visit in so and saying that 14 + 3 = 17, we may put the conversion hack to 33, as some later writers wish to do. Conybeare and Howson date Paul's Epis tles thus: Reaching Corinth, writes I 'Mess. sum .A. D. 52 Corinth to Ephesus in 54, writes t Cor.,
spring 57 In Macedonia in autumn, writes 2 Cor... 57 At Corinth, winter, writes Galatians 577 Corinth, spring, writes Romans At Rome writes Philemon, Coloss. and Eph., spring 62 writes Philippians, autumn .... 62Acquitted in 63, spring, to Nlacedonia and Asia; in Spain 64-66, and again to Asia, he writes: From Macedonia, t Tim., summer A. D. 67 From Ephesus, Titus, autumn 67 In prison at Rome, spring, 2 Tim . 68 Executed in May or June. .
Prof Harnack, one of the latest to lay lines in the mists of uncertainty, dates thus: A. D. 48-49, and 2 Thessalonians ; 53, t Cor., Gal., and 2 Con ; Romans; 57-59. Coloss., Philemon, Ephes. ( perhaps not Paul's), Phil.; 59-64, the kernels of the Pastorals to Timothy and Titus, finished by another. Hebrews he ascribes to Bar nabas, probably somewhere between 65 and 9,5; to John the Presbyter and not the Apostle he ascribes the Apocalypse, 93 to 96, and the fourth gospel and the three epistles, between 89 and tio. The gospel of Mark he dates 65-7o, followed by Matthew's, 7o-75, and by Luke and Acts, 78-93. I Peter, between 6o and 96, and 2 Pet, some where from iso to 18o, he says are not from the Apostle; and he sets the Epistles of Jude and James after roo and 120. Yet after thus defying tradition, he urges that more credit be given to it saying, "A time will come when . . . what . . . can be ascertained will be gen erally recognized, . . . (including) the gen eral truth of tradition, apart from a few impor tant exceptions. Partly before the destruction of Jerusalem (A. D. 7o), and partly by the time of Trajan (98-117), all the fundamental stamps of Christian traditions, teachings, pronounce ments, and even ordinances, except the New Testament as a collection, were essentially per fect ; and it is necessary to conceive of their in stitution within that period, and to realize how the general ground lines of catholicism must he con ceived of in the time between Trajan and Corn modus (117-190):' S. W.