[15] The "Guide des ceremonies civiles" (Par Lux, Paris, 1902).
[16] See i Cor. i. 14-15. "For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel."
[17] i Cor. xv.
[18] Aug. de Baptismo Lib. iv. Cyprian had instanced this as a case of baptism of blood, but Augustine pointed out that the penitent thief suffered not as a Christian, but in punishment for a crime.
[19] De Poen, C. vi.; cf. xii. and xiii.
[20] It is more generally held at present by scholars that the Didache was written in Egypt; but would not this prayer rather befit the hilly country of Phrygia, where afterwards Montanus taught?
[21] Rev. W. Tuckwell: "Reminiscences of Oxford."
[22] "Mundi imago divinae sapientise et potentiae praeconium."
[23] Exodus xix. 6.; Isaiah Ixi. 6.
[24] I Peter ii. 5, 9.