246
See Schwane, p. 779-80.
247
Schwane, p. 783-4.
248
“Quia a patribus ista accepimus in ecclesia legenda.” n. 47.
249
Stromata, vii. c. 16, p. 896.
250
See Kleutgen, Theologie der Vorzeit, iii. 957; Schwane, vol. i. 3.
251
L. iv. 26. 2, p. 262. “Quapropter iis qui in Ecclesia sunt presbyteris obaudire oportet,” &c.
252
L. iii. 24, p. 223.
253
Schwane, p. 683.
254
Observed by Hagemann, p. 618, referring to the words of S. Irenæus, “ad hanc enim Ecclesiam propter potiorem prinicipalitatem necesse est omnem convenire Ecclesiam,” &c. It must be remembered that the proper word for the power which held together the whole Roman empire was Principatus, the very word used by S. Augustine to express the original authority of the Roman See: “Romanæ Ecclesiæ, in qua semper apostolicæ cathedræ viguit principatus.” Ep. 43.
255
See Kuhn, Einleitung in die katholische Dogmatik, i. 345-6.
256
Guizot ranks Marcus Aurelius with S. Louis, as the only rulers who preferred conscience to gain in all their conduct.
257
Maximus Tyrius, diss. 17, 12; Reiske, and diss, ii. 2. 10.
258
Acta Martyrum sincera, Ruinart, p. 58-60.
259
Ruinart, p. 67.
260
Ruinart, p. 68.
261
Ruinart, p. 69.
262
Hist. v. i. μυριάδας μαρτύρων διαπρέψαι στοχασμῷ λαβεῖν ἔνεστιν.
263
Ib, v. 21.
264
Clem. Alex. Strom. ii. c. 20, p. 494.
265
Euseb. Hist. vi. 1.
266
Champagny, les Antonins, iii. 326, 338.
267
Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana, written at the request of the empress Julia Domna. See Kellner, Hellenismus und Christenthum, c. v. s. 4, 81-4.
268
Orig. c. Cels. viii. 68, tom. i. p. 793.
269
Churches in private houses, under cover of that great liberty which invested with a sort of sacred independence the Roman household, it had from the beginning: the church of S. Pudentiana in the house of the senator Pudens still guards the altar on which S. Peter offered.
270
The reign of Louis XIV.