And have we not here an explana-
tion of 1 Cor. xiii. 3, if ba κανθήσω-
μαι be the right reading? The pas-


sage, being written before the fires of
the Neronian persecution, requires ex-
planation. Now it is clear from Plu-
tarch that the ‘Tomb of the Indian’
was one of the sights shown to stran-
gers at Athens: and the Apostle, who
observed the altar Δγνώστωι θεῶι,


was not likely to overlook the sepul-
chre with the strange inscription
EAYTON ATTABANATICAC ΚΕΙ͂ΤΑΙ. In-
deed the incident would probably be
pressed on his notice in his discussions
with Stoics and Epicureans, and he
would be forced to declare himself as
to the value of these Indian self-im-
molations, when he preached the doc-
trine of self-sacrifice. We may well
imagine therefore that the fate of this
poor Buddhist fanatic was present to
his mind when he penned the words
kal ἐὰν καραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μον... ἀγάπην δὲ
μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι. Indeed it would
furnish an almost equally good illus-
tration of the text, whether we read ba
καυθήσωμαι OY ἵνα καυχήσωμαι. Dion
Cassius (]. ο.) suggests that the deed
was done ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίας or εἰς ἐπίδειξιν.
