[2179] Hatch, Griechenthum und Christenthum, 108.

[2180] Ibid., 109.

[2181] Harnack, Pseudo-Clement. Briefe de Virg., 19, 21, 22.

[2182] Hatch, 122.

[2183] Hatch, 123.

[2184] Harnack, Dogmengesch., I, 747.

[2185] Ibid., 59.

[2186] Ibid., 60.

[2187] Such perversions have been very frequent. See Todd, Life of St. Patrick, 91, for a case; also, Lea, Inquisition, III, 109. Sometimes the test was to show that the temptation was powerless. Lea, Inquis., II, 357; Sacerd. Celib., 167.

[2188] Wellhausen, Skizzen und Vorarbeiten, III, 210.