[219] "Contra Cels.," I, 37.

[220] "Apol.," I, 33.

[221] "Contra Cels.," I, 37.

[222] "Primitive Christianity," pp. 294, 295. Clemen would himself trace the idea of the Virgin Birth to a passage in Philo ("De. Cher." 13 f.) in which the wives of the Patriarchs represent virtues (p. 297).

[223] "Primitive Christianity," p. 37.

[224] "Primitive Christianity," p. 292.

[225] "Die Jungfrauengeburt," 1906, p. 31.

[226] "Die wunderbare Geburt des Heilandes," 1909, p. 41.

[227] See Deissmann: "Light from the Ancient East," p. 371.

[228] "Kyrios Christos," 1913, p. 119.