Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries

by Ruth Ellis Messenger

^[15]R. Reitzenstein, Die Hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen (Leipzig, Teubner, 1927), 3rd edition, 385.

^[16]G. D. Kellogg, The Ancient Art of Poetic Improvisation, a paper read at the meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, April 26, 1940; J. Kroll, op. cit. (see [note 3]), 259.

^[17]Contra Haereses, III, xvii, 2; Migne (PG), VII, 929-930. For a recent commentator, see F. J. Foakes-Jackson, The Acts of the Apostles (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1931), 10-13.

^[18]Note the citation, I Tim. 6:15-16, [supra, p. 7], in which the repetition of the relative clause produces a stylistic effect.

^[19]Justin Martyr, Apologia pro Christianis, 67; Migne (PG), VI, 430. Translation from Ante-Nicene Fathers (New York, Scribners, 1899), I, 14.

^[20]Didache, xiv; Translation from Ante-Nicene Fathers, VII, 381.

^[21]Apostolic Constitutions, II, lvii; Translation from Ante-Nicene Fathers, VII, 421-422.

^[22]Ante-Nicene Fathers, VII, 371-376; Catholic Encyclopedia, IV, 779f; Encyclopedia Britannica, eleventh edition, VII-VIII, 209f.

^[23]Didache, ix; Translation from Ante-Nicene Fathers, VII, 380.

^[24]Hymnody Past and Present, 16-17.