The Origin of Paul's Religion

by J. Gresham Machen

Θαρρεῖτε μύσται τοῧ Θεοῦ σεσωμένου
ἔσται γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐκ πόνων σωτηρία.

[144] See Hepding, op. cit., pp. 184-190.

[145] Firmicus Maternus, op. cit., xviii: ἐκ τυμπὰνου βέβρωκα, ἐκ κυμβάλον πέπωκα,γέγονα μύατης Ἄττεως.

[146] Clem. Al., Protrepticus, ii. 15 (ed. Stählin, 1905): ἐκ τυμράνου ἕφαγον‧ ἐκ κυμβάλου ἕπιον‧ ἐκερνοφόρεσα ὑπὸ τὸν παστὸν ὑπέδυν.

[147] Hepding, op. cit., pp. 196ff.

[148] Showerman, op. cit., p. 280.

[149] Hepding, op. cit., p. 200, Anm. 7.

[150] But compare Kennedy, St. Paul and the Mystery-Religions, 1913, p. 229.

[151] Apuleius, Metam., xi. 23 (ed. Van der Vliet, 1897, p. 270): "Accessi confinium mortis et calcato Proserpinae limine per omnia vectus elementa remeavi; nocte media vidi solem candido coruscantem lumine; deos inferos et deos superos accessi coram et adoravi de proxumo."

[152] Lucian, De dea syria, 6, translation of Garstang (The Syrian Goddess, 1913, pp. 45f.).