[154] Whatever may be the ecclesiastical or legal sense of the word ‘person,’ in its original philosophical meaning it expresses an aspect of individuality, and not an individual: see Cicero’s use of the term quoted above, § [271], note 42.
[155] See above, § [470], note 77.
[156] This book claims rank as a classic; amongst others of similar purpose may be mentioned R. Garnett’s Twilight of the gods (New edition, London 1903).
[157] Amongst these elements we include all that Christianity has drawn from Persism through Judaism. We have indeed referred to the Persian beliefs embodied in the ‘Lord’s prayer’; but it has lain outside our scope to discuss the Eschatology which figures so largely in popular conceptions of Christianity, but is now thought to be but slightly connected with its characteristic message. On this point see especially Carl Clemen, Religionsgeschichtliche Erklärung des Neuen Testaments (Giessen, 1909), pp. 90-135.
[158] Matthew Arnold, St Paul and Protestantism (Popular edition, p. 80).
[159] The full title of Winckler’s book from which we have often already quoted is Der Stoicismus eine Wurzel des Christenthums.
[160] Matt. v 37.