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The Pastor of Hermas
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[3] Why “Athenian”? It was read everywhere. But possibly this is a specification based on Acts xvii. 21. They may have welcomed it as a novel and a novelty.
[4] More of this in Athenagoras; but see Kaye’s Justin Martyr, p. 179, note 3, ed. 1853.
[5] Roman fabulists know all about Pius, of course, and give us this history: “He was a native of Aquileia, and was elected bishop on the 15th of January, a.d. 158 … He governed the Church nine years, five months, and twenty-seven days.” So affirms that favourite of Popes, Artaud de Montor (Histoire de Pie VIII., p. xi. Paris, 1830).
[6] The latest learned authority among Roman Catholics, a Benedictine, gives us the dates a.d. 142–156, respectively, as those of his election and decease. See Series Episcoporum, etc. P. B. Gams, Ratisbonæ, 1873.
[7] Relying upon the invaluable aid of Dr. Routh, I had not thought of looking into Westcott, till I had worked out my own conclusions. I am greatly strengthened by his elaborate and very able argument. See his work on the Canon, pp. 213–235.
[8] 1 Cor. xiv. The value of Hermas in helping us to comprehend this mysterious chapter appears to me very great. Celsus reproached Christians as Sibyllists. See Origen, Against Celsus, book v. cap. lxi.
[9] Westcott, p. 219. Ed. 1855, London.
[10] Hieron., tom. 1. p. 988, Benedictine ed.
[11] Bull (and Grabe), Harmonia Apostolica; Works, vol. iii.
[12] Pearson, Vindiciæ Ignat., i. cap. 4. Bull, Defens. Fid. Nicæn., 1. cap. 2. sec. 3; Works, vol. v. part i. p. 15.
[13] Comment. in Rom. xvi. 14, lib. x. 31. [But see Westcott’s fuller account of all this, pp. 219, 220.]
[14] Hist. Eccl. iii. 3.
[15] De Viris Illustribus, c. x.
[16] Contra Hæres., iv. 20, 2.
[17] Strom., i. xxi. p. 426.
[18] Ut supra.
[19] De Pudicitia, c. xx., also c. x.; De Oratione, c. xvi.
[20] [This statement should be compared with Westcott’s temperate and very full account of the Muratorian Fragment, pp. 235–245.]
[21] The commencement varies. In the Vatican: “He who had brought me up, sold a certain young woman at Rome. Many years after this I saw her and recognized her.” So Lips.; Pal. has the name of the woman, Rada. The name Rhode occurs in Acts xii. 13.
[22] “On my road to the villages.” This seems to mean: as I was taking a walk into the country, or spending my time in travelling amid rural scenes. So the Æthiopic version. “Proceeding with these thoughts in my mind.”—Vat. After I had come to the city of Ostia.”—Pal. “Proceeding to some village.”—Lips. [The Christian religion begetting this enthusiasm for nature, and love for nature’s God, is to be noted. Where in all heathendom do we find spirit or expression like this?]
[23] Creatures. Creature or creation.—Lips., Vat., Æth.
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