[708] See [Lecture V. p. 135].
[709] Socrates, H. E. p. 177, ἕνασις τοῦ σώματος, of the corporate unity of a philosophical school.
[710] Didaché, cc. 1-3.
[711] Apost. Const. p. 1. 15-17.
[712] Ib. 5. 20-22.
[713] Ib. 1. 6.
[714] “We Christians are remarkable,” says Tertullian (Ad Scap. 2), “only for the reformation of our former vices.” The plea of the Apologists was based on the fact that the Christians led blameless lives: de causâ innocentiæ consistam, Tert. Apol. c. 4.
[715] The Elchasaites, ap. Hipp. 9. 15.
[716] Weingarten, Zeittafeln, p. 12. See also Lightfoot, Ignatius, vol. ii. pp. 310-312.
[717] Weingarten, p. 17.