Before Jerusalem Fell

256 BEFORE JERUSALEM FELL
find not only particular personages (Nero), cultural structures (the
Jewish Temple), and historical events (the Neronic Persecution and
the Jewish War) that harmonize well with the Neronic era, but even
time-frames for these that fill out the picture of the era of which John
wrote. It can be no other than in the mid- to late A.D. 60s.
W. Simpson, An Epitome of the Hi.stov of the Chri.rtian Church During h First 7?wee Centuries
and of th Reformation in England, 3rd ed. (Cambridge Macmillan, 1857), p. 67.
David Churchill Somervell, A ShJrt Histoty of our Religion (New York: Macmillan,
1922), p. 129.
David D. Van Antwerp, Church Histmy, 5th cd., vol. 1 (New York: James Pott, 1884),
pp. 27, 42.
B. F. Westcott, i% Two Empirss: Ttu Church and tb World (London: Macmillan, 1909),
pp. 32ff.
Edward Backhouse, Ear~ Church Hi.stoy to the Death of Con.stuntiw, 3rd ed. (London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1892), p. 11.
W. D. Killen, The Ancient Chwch: Its Hi.stoiy, Doctrh, Worship, Constitution, Traced for th
First Three Hundred Years, ed. John Hall (New York Anson D. F. Randolph, 1883), pp.
147tI