Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries

by Ruth Ellis Messenger

^[25]F. E. Brightman, Liturgies, Eastern and Western (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896), vol. I, Introduction, xvii-xxix.

^[26]F. E. Brightman, supra, xxix; see also B. S. Easton, The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus (Cambridge, Un. Press, 1934), 12.

^[27]L. Eisenhofer, Handbuch der katholischen Liturgik, vol. I, Allgemeine Liturgik (Freiburg im B., Herder, 1932), 150-152.

^[28]Apostolic Constitutions, VII, 47.

^[29]Supra, VII, 48.

^[30]Supra, VII, 49.

^[31]Translations from Ante-Nicene Fathers, VII, 538, 544.

^[32]Liber de spiritu sancto, xxix, 73; Migne (PG), XXXII, 205. See also J. Mearns, op. cit. (see [note 4]), 16.

^[33]Translation by Robert Bridges, Yattendon Hymnal (London, Oxford Un. Press, 1920), no. 88.

^[34]R. M. Pope, “Latin Hymns of the Early Period,” Theology, 21 (1930), 159; Catholic Encyclopedia, “Te deum,” XIV, 468-470; C. W. Douglas, Church Music in History and Practice (New York, Scribners, 1937), 158-160.