[35]F. Cabrol, op. cit. (see [note 4]), especially Part II, Les cantiques anciens, 1976-1977.
[36]E. Norden, Agnostos Theos (Leipzig, Teubner, 1913), 276.
[37]Translation from Book of Common Prayer (Prot. Epis. Church, U. S. A.), 84. Similar effects were apparent in I Tim. 6:15-16, I Tim. 3:16, I Peter 2:22-25, quoted above.
[38]K. Keyssner, Gottesvorstellung und Lebensauffassung in griechischen Hymnus (Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1932). In his index Keyssner lists 72 known authors of all periods, 37 anonymous pieces (some fragments), and 22 magical formulae or collections.
[39]E. H. Blakeney, Hymn of Cleanthes (London, S. P. C. K., 1921), 8.
[40]E. D. Perry, Preface to A. Körte, Hellenistic Poetry, translated by J. Hammer and M. Hadas (New York, Col. Un. Press, 1929), vii.
[41]S. Angus, Religious Quests of the Graeco-Roman World (New York, Scribners, 1929), 76.
[42]Supra, 77, 86, 87.
[43]Metamorphoses, xi, 25. Translation from S. Angus, Mystery Religions and Christianity (New York, Scribners, 1925), 240-241. For the hymn from Cyme see P. Roussel, “Un nouvel Hymne à Isis,” Revue des Études grecques, 42 (1929), 138.
[44]Cited by Firmicus Maternus, De errore profanarum religionum, 20; Migne (PL), XII, 1025; F. Cumont, Textes et Monuments Figurés relatifs aux Mystères de Mithra (Bruxelles, Lamertin, 1899), vol. I, 313.