[13]On these methods compare especially K. E. Kirk, The Vision of God (London, 1931), pp. 119-124.

[14]As in Wisdom 14. 25-26.

[15]Romans 1. 29-31 is largely of Greek origin; 1 Timothy 3. 2-3 and Titus 3. 1-2 are wholly so.

[16]In 1 Clement 47. 6 the forty-five year old Corinthian church is called “ancient”.

[17]Jude 17, Revelation 21. 14, etc. The meaning in Ephesians 2. 20 is probably a little different.

[18]1 Clement 42. 4; 44. 1-2, etc.

[19]Even in the third century liturgical prayers were still normally extempore, and use of a fixed form was regarded as a weakness on the part of the officiant.

[20]Eusebius, HE, v, 24.

[21]See especially James Muilenburg, The Literary Relations of the Epistle of Barnabas and the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Marburg, 1929.

[22]39th Festal Letter (367), 7.