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William Sanday and Arthur C. Headlam, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Edinburgh: Clark, 1902), pp. 419–420.

The highly ambiguous reference in Dio Cassius, History 67:14.3, is sometimes interpreted to mean that he was executed for being a Christian.

A.N. Sherwin-White, The Roman Citizenship (Oxford: Clarendon, 2nd ed., 1973) pp. 322–336; Jerome Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient Rome (London: Penguin, 1981), p. 72.

In a letter (Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden [BGU], vol. 2, n. 423) dated at the beginning of the second century A.D., Apion from Egypt announces to his family that on arrival at the naval base of Misenum in Italy he was given the service name of Antonius Maximus. In a subsequent letter (BGU, vol. 2, n. 632) he uses that name alone; see John L. White, Light from Ancient Letters, Foundations & Facets: NT (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986), p. 159.

Colin J. Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History (Tübingen: Mohr, 1989), p. 233.

Charles B.E. Cranfield, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1979), p. 784. Similarly Peter Lampe, Die stadtrömischen Christen in den ersten beiden Jahrhunderten (Tübingen: Mohr, 2nd ed., 1989), p. 451.

Wayne A. Meeks, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press, 1983), p. 59. James D.G. Dunn, Romans, Word Biblical Commentary 38 (Dallas: Word Books, 1988), p. 892.

Translations from the New Revised Standard Version.

The Book of Jubilees (2 vols.; Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 510–511, Scriptores Aethiopici 88–89; Louvain: Peeters, 1989).

Mashafa Kufale or the Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees (Oxford: Clarendon, 1895).