[235] See Hefele, History of the Councils, etc., to 325 A.D., pp. 150, 151. Clark’s edition, Edinburgh, 1872.

[236] The Church in the Catacombs, p. 225, London, 1846.

[237] See Maitland, p. 228.

[238] Court of the Gentiles, by Theophilus Gale, part iii., book ii., chap. ii., section 3, paragraph 4.

[239] Stromata, book vii., chap. vii.

[240] Ad Nationes, chap. xiii.

[241] Teutonic Mythology, by Jacob Grimm, four vols., London, 1883, vol. ii., p. 115.

[242] Ibid., vol. ii., p. 619.

[243] Ibid., vol. ii., p. 613.

[244] Schaff, vol. ii., p. 254.