oL'puvov^ ai'iei (comp. also xviii, 9, 10; xxiii, 11). nai'Aoi/ . . . (?/iaAev efu) tti? ToAewr (comp. xiii, 5U ; xiv, 19). (yevi]ir]crav avvodevovTti' auTCfJ.
pcTct . . . oxAou iKai-oii (comp. xix, 26; Mark X, 46 ; Lnke vii, 12). aiiT'^ T(;y fKTr\t]^iv . . . Karfxei eKTrArjKToi/ . . . ttujiutt Ai,f . Ta 0(Tia t'p7a tov XptfTTOV, eiyui 7f<fi irpuno'! xrii iroAeo)?: and XXvi,'lKoi'it'(ov' ei/ji Trpiuxt) (COmp.
also xvii, 4, 12). Geo? C.'tw. Ylt'iTep 6 7ro(»i(Tac tov ovpaiov Kai Tt]v y7v. CI 6t eoTt Tivt<;,iievT£ Kai I'/uei? ei9 toi' rnKoi- (uou Kui ixvatruivaaaie. 6 Geo? o I'lJ/iaro?.
o af&pMTro? oPTO? Ti(i/ '\Kovituiv TToAiK uvaaeiii. avv€7ri(TTtj Tra? o o'xAo?. ware aaXeviiivat tc'i befxeXta tov ^edrpov.
Geo? uTTpoCT^ei'?. ctvaTreiiovra tou? o'xAoi/?. tTreo-ei' ei? to eba^o?.
i<7riiptTa Tou ev\oyi)fi.tvou Qeov (comp. Luke i, 2; John xviii, 36; 1 Cor. iv, 1).
KXtTpovo^jkija-Quatv tov Qeov.
OTTO)? ctTTO TH? (p^Opui UTrotTTTcio'tO aVTOV^.
uTTeKdexofxevo^.
oi uyiijv T»/i/ (TcipKa T»]p//(TavTe9 . . . vad^ GeoiJ yevi-a-ovTat (COmp.
vi, 18-20). I'TTripera tov Geou. oi e'xoi'Tet 7in'urKac mc ju'( exoi'^ff. fxf/ ciAAo? ere Tretpad/iov A/jx/^eTat.
auTi? . . . tvivaei a€ (jaTnpiav (comj). 2 Cor. V, 2, 3). 6 naT>]p Tor/Kiipioy huS'v'hiaov XpurroD (Comp. xi, 31, a. O. In N.T.).
t\V^aVtV i; TTICTTI?.
6 7<<p (Toi cruitp7i;<ra? elf to eia77e'A<oi' Ku/xoi cmi]pyt]aev elf to
XovaacrSrcu. roil uyanriutvov (of Christ).
KupTTOt' 6tKaiOCVll}^.
3'A(/3ojuei'oif ui/e(Ttf.
evapea-riicrovmv rnv Geoi/ (COmp. xiii, IC).
Kapnov dtKatoavvt]^.
Via p.t]Ktri liiro Kpiaiv waiv.
irpof Tot Ttari-pa Kai rov I'ioi' (Comp. 2 John ver. 9),
TrAafw/iei'W Koafuo.
iivdiravaiv t^ovaiv elf aiwva a oJio?,
THECOE
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That the author of the Actg was acqiiaintctl with the second epistle to Timothy is iiiKiiustioiiable, because there are many striidny parallels between that e|)istle and the Aclg, which need not be mentioned.
V. Literature. — Kspeneiei Opera Uinniii ( I'arisis, 1619), p. 998 sq. ; IJarouius, Marli/rulof/iuiii liumanum (Venetiis, 1593), ad 2d Sept. p. 431— i;J4; id. Anuules Ecclesiustici <td Annum 47 (Luca>, 173iS), i, 338 sq. ; Pantiniis, Not(e in Kd. LibroruiH II linsilii Seleucim in Jsuuria Epkcopi de Vitaac Mirnculis 1). Thedm (Antv. 1608), p. •lii-iiS- Hornejus, Hist. Eccl. ( Brunsvicii, 1649), i, 40-42; Vetnslius Occidentcdis Ecclesi(e Marly- rt>lo(jium, etc. (ed. Franc. JM. Florentinus [Lucie, 1668]), notiB ad 12 et 23 Sept. ; Combetis, Bibli(>thec(e Grieco- ruin Patrum Auctdrium Xovissinium (I'ar. 1672), pt. i; Not. ad Nicetoi Paphl. Orut. in T/iecl<im, p. o06-509; Tillemont, Memoires pour sercir a V llistoire Ecdesias- tique, etc. (ibid. 1694), ii, 65-70, 528-530; Ittig, De JJ(eresiai-chis (Lips. 1690): Appendix Bissei-tationum de Hceredardiis (ibid. 1696); De Pseudepigraphis, i, 128, 129; De Bibliotliecis et Catenis Patrum (ibid. 1707), p. 700-705; Grabe, Spicileyium SS. Patrum (Oxonias, ed. ii, 1700; ed. i, 1698), i, 87-94, resp. 128, 330-335; Des heiliijen dementis llistorie von denen Reisen und Lehen des Apostels Petri, mil einem Vorberichte S. A molds (Berlin, 1702); Acta Sanctorum (Antv. 1717), mens. Jun. vii, 552, 553 (auctore J oh. Bapt. Sollerio); llieronymi Cata- logum Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, cum uotis J'>asmi Roterdami, Mariani Victorii, H. Gravii, A. Miraii, et Jo. Alb. Fabrieii — Frnestus Salomo Cyprianus recensuit et annotationibus ilkistravit (Fraucof. et Lips. 1722); Dom. Georgius, in an aunotaiiou to the Martyrohupj of Ado of Vieiuie, in his edition of the same (Kom. 1745 fol.), p. 493 ; Lardner, The Credibilifij of the Gospel History (2d ed. Loud. 1748), II, ii, 697-703; Acta Sanctorum (Antv. 1757), ad 23 Sept. vi, 546 sq. (auctore Jo. Stit- tingo); VAhx\c\\\s, Bibliotheca Gnvca (Hamb. 1807), ed. Harles. x,331 ; Thilo, Acta S. Thomce Apostoli (Lips. 1823), prol. p. lix, Ix; Schwegler, Der Montanismus (Tub. 1841), p. 262-266 ; Tischendorf, A eta Apostolorum Apocrypha (Lips. 1851), prol. p. xxi-xxvi; Kcistlin, Die psemlonyme Literatur der dltesten Kirche, in the Theol. Jahrbiicher (Tub. 1851), p. 175, 177; Ewald, Uebersicht der 1851-52 ersckienenen Sckriften zur bibl. Wissenschaft, in the Jahrbiicher zur bibl. [VissenschaJ'l, 1852, p. 127; Kitsehl, Die Entstehuny der altkatholischen Kirche (2d ed. Bonn, 1857), p. 292-294; Neudecker, art. '•Thekla" in Ilerzog, I'eal-Eucykhip. xv, 704, 705; Gut- schmid. Die Kimiysuunien der apocryph. A postelgeschich/e (Khein. Mus. 1864), new series, xix, 176-179, 396, 397; Keuss, Gesch. d. heil. Sckriften (Brunswick, 1864), § 267, p. 264, note; Ililgenfeld, Norum Testamentum extra Canouem Recepfiim (Li|)S. 1866), iv, 69; Kenan, Saint- Paul (Par. 1869), 1,40; jMiiller, Erkidruny des harnabas- Briefes (Leips. 1869), p. 4; Wright, A pocryphal Acts of the Apostles (Loud. 1871, 2 vols.); Haiisrath, Neutesta- vientl. Zeityeschichte (1872), ii, 547 ; Lipsius, Ueber den Urspruny und dltesten Gebrauch des Christennamens (Jena, 1873),' p. 8; Mossman, A History of the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ from the Death oj' St. John to the Middle of the Second Century (Loud. 1873), p. 351-400 ; Der Kutholik, Nov. 1875, p. Itil; but more es[>ecially Schlau, Die Acten des Paulus und der Thecla und die dltere Thecla- Leyende (Leips. 1877) ; and the review by Lipsius in Schiirer, Theol. Literuturzeituny (ibid. 1877), p. 543. (B.l>.)
Theco'e (eefco^O- ''>o Greek form (1 JMacc. ix, 33) of the Heb. name (2 Chron. xx, 20) Tt:KOA (q. v.).
Theft (nSjS, icXf/j/ift or kXott//) is treated in the Jlosaic code in its widest bearings (Exod. xxii, 1 sq.), especially when accompanied by burglary or the abrep- tion of animals (Josephus, A nt. xvi, 1, 1 ; Philo, 0pp. ii, 336). If the stolen property had already been sold or rendered useless, the thief was required to make five- fold restitution in cases of horned cattle (comp. 2 Sam. xii, 6; Philo, 0pp. ii, 337), or fourfold in case of sheep