[1] Lactantius, Inst. Div. iv. 28 “Vinculo pietatis obstricti, Deo religati sumus unde ipsa religio nomen accepit.” The etymology may be wrong, but this is the popular sense of the word.
[2] Darwell Stone, The Christian Church, p. 18.
[3] Ecce Homo, ed. 5, p. 87. Cf. the interesting comparison between Socrates and Christ.
[4] Op. cit. p. 262.
[5] Hort, The Christian Ecclesia, p. 148.
[6] For a full defence of the authenticity of Matt. xxviii. 19 see Riggenbach, Der trinitarische Taufbefehl (Gütersloh, 1903).
[7] The Conception of Priesthood, p. 13.
[8] The Conception of Priesthood, p. 29.
[9] Lindsay, The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries, p. 17.
[10] The Ascension, p. 254.