[23] H. R. Mackintosh, "The Doctrine of the Person of Jesus Christ", p. 399.
[24] Clement, "Protrepticus", 100, 3, 4
[25] The more or less contemporary Greek orator, Dio Chrysostom, refers to the old-fashioned ways of the Tarsiots, especially mentioning their insistence on women wearing veils.
[26] Wernle, "Beginnings of Christianity", vol. i. p. 286, English translation.
[27] So too says Josephus, who gives this as the reason of Herod's suspicion of him.
[28] "Antiquities of the Jews", xviii. 5, 8, 117, cf. what Celsus says of righteousness as a condition of admission to certain mysteries that offer forgiveness of sins (Origen, c. "Celsum", iii. 59). The "purification of the body" has a ritual and ceremonial significance.
[29] Lines Composed above Tintern, 34.
[30] That he did so is emphasized again and again, in striking language, by St. Paul—e.g. Rom. 5:15-16, 20; 1 Tim. 1:14.
[31] Horace, "Ars Poetica", 191, "Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit".
[32] Daily reading of the Scriptures is recommended by Clement of Alexandria ("Strom". vii. 49).