CrossLinks Topical Index - LY


lying : lying - AGAINST
lying - AGAINST : Ex. 20:16; Lev. 6:2-3; Deu. 5:20; Pr. 12:22; Pr. 14:5; Pr. 19:9; Pr. 21:28; Pr. 26:6; Pr. 26:28; Jer. 9:3-6; Acts 5:4
Lysanias : Luke 3:1

"Another supposed mistake has been detected by some in Luke 3:1, where Lysanias is said to have been tetrarch of Abilene (west of Damascas), in the fifteenth year of Tiberius (AD 27-28), whereas the only Lysanias of Abilene otherwise known from ancient history bore the title of king and was executed by order of Mark Antony in 34 BC. Evidence of a later Lysanias who had the status of tetrarch has, however, been forthcoming from an inscription recording the dedication of a temple ‘for the salvation of the Lords Imperial and their whole household, by Nymphaeus, a freedman of Lysanias the tetrarch’. The reference to ‘the Lords Imperial’ -- a joint title given only to the Emperor Tiberius and his mother Livia, the widow of Augustus -- fixes the date of the inscription between A.D. 14 (the year of Tiberius’ accession) and 29 (the year of Livia's death). On the strength of this and other evidence we may well be satisfied with the verdict of the historian Eduard Meyer, that Luke's reference to Lysanias is ‘entirely correct’." Ref-0239, p. 88.


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