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23.  But Terebinthus, his disciple in this wicked error, inherited his money and books and heresy This statement agrees with the reading of the Vatican ms. of the Acta Archelai, “omnibus quæcunque ejus fuerunt congregratis.”, and came to Palestine, and becoming known and condemned in Judæa In the Acta there is no mention of Palestine, but only that he “set out for Babylonia, a province which is now held by the Persians.” he resolved to pass into Persia:  but lest he should be recognised there also by his name he changed it and called himself Buddas Clem. Alex. (Strom. i. 15):  “Some also of the Indians obey the precepts of Boutta, and honour him as a god for his extraordinary sanctity.”.  However, he found adversaries there also in the priests of Mithras Cf. Acta Arch. cap. lii.:  “A certain Parcus, however, a prophet, and Labdacus, son of Mithras, charged him with falsehood.”  On the name Parcus and Labdacus, see Dict. Chr. Biogr., “Barcabbas,” and on the Magian worship of the Sun-god Mithras, see Rawlinson (Herodot. Vol. I. p. 426).:  and being confuted in the discussion of many arguments and controversies, and at last hard pressed, he took refuge with a certain widow.  Then having gone up on the housetop, and summoned the dæmons of the air, whom the Manichees to this day invoke over their abominable ceremony of the fig See below, § 33., he was smitten of God, and cast down from the housetop, and expired:  and so the second beast was cut off.

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