The Origin of Paul's Religion

by J. Gresham Machen

[134] On the Eleusinian Mysteries and the cult of Demeter and Kore-Persephone, see especially Farnell, op. cit., iii, pp. 29-279.

[135] Hippolytus, Ref. omn. haer., V. viii. 39 (ed. Wendland, 1916).

[136] Apuleius, Metam. xi. 5, Addington's translation revised by Gaselee, in Apuleius, The Golden Ass, in the The Loeb Classical Library, p. 547.

[137] Gilbert Murray, Four Stages of Greek Religion, 1912, pp. 8, 103-154. Compare, however, Rohde (op. cit., ii, pp. 298-300), who calls attention to an opposite aspect of the Hellenistic age.

[138] The sketch which follows is indebted especially to Cumont, Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, 2ième éd., 1909 (English translation, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, 1911).

[139] For the religion of Cybele and Attis, see Showerman, The Great Mother of the Gods, 1901; Hepding, Attis, 1903.

[140] See Hepding, op. cit., pp. 147-176.

[141] Loisy (Les mystères païens et le mystère chrétien, 1910, p. 104) prefers to attach the passage to Osiris rather than to Attis.

[142] See Hepding, op. cit., pp. 166, 167.

[143] Firmicus Maternus, De error, prof. rel., xxii (ed. Ziegler, 1907):