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| | PONTIUS PILATE - LoveToKnow Article on PONTIUS PILATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Of equestrian rank his name Pontius suggests a Samnite origin, and his cognomen in the gospels, pileatus (if derived from the pileus or cap o liberty), descent from a freedman. |
 | | In any case he came in A.D. 26 from the household of Tiberius, through the influence of Sejanus, to be procurator over part of the imperial province of Syria, viz. |
 | | The earlier Pilate literature, to the extent of no treatises, chiefly of the 17th and 18th centuries, is enumerated in G. Miiller s Pontius Pilatus der junjte_ Prokurator van Judaa (Stuttgart, 1888). |
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