The Origin of Paul's Religion

by J. Gresham Machen

[173] See W. Kroll, De Oraculis Chaldaicis, 1894; "Die chaldäischen Orakel," in Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, l, 1895, pp. 636-639.

[174] Dieterich, Eine Mithrasliturgie, 2te Aufl., 1910.

[175] Op. cit., p. 379 (English Translation, pp. 260f.).

[176] Dieterich, op. cit., pp. 43f.

[177] Corp. Herm. x. 13.

[178] Reitzenstein, Hellenistische Mysterienreligionen, 2te Aufl., 1920, p. 183.

[179] J. Kroll, op. cit., pp. 286-289, especially p. 288, Anm. 1.

[180] Reitzenstein, Poimandres, p. 82.

[181] Op. cit., pp. 83-98.

[182] Helbig, review of "Philo von Alexandrien: Werke, in deut. Uebersetzg. hrsg. v. Prof. Dr. Leop. Cohn. 3. Tl.," in Theologische Literaturzeitung, xlv, 1920, column 30: "Here one perceives with all requisite clearness that Philo did not merely imitate the language of the mystery religions, but had been himself a μύστης."