[298]. ii. 10; comp. i. 9.

[300]. ii. 18.

[301]. iii. 17.

[302]. iii. 18, 20, 23.

[303]. At least in 2 Tim. iii. 1–7, where, though the most monstrous developments of the evil were still future, the Apostle’s language implies that it had already begun. On the other hand in the picture of the heresy in 1 Tim. iv. 2 the ascetic tendency still predominates.

[304]. 2 Pet. ii. 10 sq., Jude 8.

[305]. Apoc. ii. 14, 20–22.

[306]. See the notes on Clem. Rom. Ep. ii. § 9.

[307]. ii. 16.

[308]. ii. 21.