[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.