13/19 15, "Look ye to it." Toleration existed in the Roman Empire, and the magistrates often interfered to protect the Jews from massacre; but they absolutely and persistently refused to trouble themselves with any attempt to understand their doctrines or enter into their disputes. The tradition that Gallio sent some of St.Paul's writings to his brother Seneca is utterly absurd; and indeed at this time (A.D. 54), St.Paul had written nothing except the two Epistles to the Thessalonians. (See Conybeare and Howson, _St.Paul_, vol.i.Ch. |