[43]The distinction between “martyr” and “confessor” was not yet developed.
[44]Or perhaps restored the privileges of the office to him; when and where Callistus was ordained is uncertain. Possibly he had the confessor’s ordination ([p. 39]).
[45]Hippolytus’s account of his controversy with Callistus is, in fact, so bitter that modern historians feel obliged to interpret it in the sense that will make the greatest allowance for the latter. Hence less than full justice is perhaps done nowadays to Hippolytus.
[46]The antithesis “In time or in eternity?” seems hardly to have been stated squarely until the beginnings of the Arian controversy.
[47]And Zephyrinus?
[48]Less probably after Zephyrinus’s death.
[49]Hebrews 6. 4-8, 10. 26-31, 12. 17.
[50]Except, perhaps, through martyrdom.
[51]Matthew 13. 30.
[52]Romans 14. 4.