[638] Apost. Const. 8. 32. Cf. passages quoted from Clem. Alex. and others, supra, [p. 287, note 1]; [p. 295, notes 2] and [5]. See Bingham, vol. iii. pp. 443-446.
[639] De præsc. hær. 41. Cf. Epiphan. 41. 3; Apost. Const. 8. 12.
[640] ἃ οὐδὲ ἐποπτεύειν ἔξεστι τοῖς ἀμυήτοις, de Spir. Sanct. 27; cf. Orig. c. Cels. 3. 59 ad fin. and 60, e.g. “then and not before do we invite them to participation in our mysteries,” and “initiating those already purified into the sacred mysteries.” Cf. Dict. Christian Antiquities, s. v. Disciplina Arcani.
[641] See [p. 293, note 1]; also Dict. Christian Antiquities, s. vv. Baptism, Catechumens, especially p. 318, and Creed.
[642] Histoire de l’église d’Alexandrie, p. 12: Paris, 1677.
[643] De baptismo Christi, 4. ii. 374, τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρόντος, τῶν ἀγγέλων παρεστώτων, τῆς φρικτῆς ταύτης τραπέζης προκειμένης, τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου μυσταγωγουμένων ἔτι. Cyril, Præfatio ad Catech. 15.
[644] Mabillon. Com. præv. ad. ord. Rom.; Museum Ital. II. xcix.
[645] It was one of the points to which the Greeks objected in the discussions of the ninth century.
[646] c. 9.
[647] Bk. ii. 57, p. 87; cf. viii. 5, p. 239, lines 18, 19.