[447:3] As in the case of Origen.  In the Didascalia we meet with the following directions—­“Teach then your children the word of the Lord.....  Teach them to write, and to read the Holy Scriptures.” —­Ethiopic Didascalia, by Platt, p. 130.

[447:4] Euseb. viii. c. 13.

[448:1] Clemens Alexandrinus, “Stromata,” lib. vii.

[448:2] Homil. xxxix. on Jer. xliv. 22.

[448:3] Period I. sec. ii. chap. i. p. 184.

[448:4] The fathers traced analogies between the four Gospels and the four cardinal points, the living creatures with four faces, and the four rivers of Paradise.  See Irenaeus, lib. iii. c. xi.  Sec. 8; and Cyprian, Epist. lxxiii., Opera, p. 281.

[449:1] Such as the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas.

[449:2] See Westcott on the Canon, pp. 452, 453.

[449:3] “The opinion that falsehood, was allowable, and might even be necessary to guide the multitude, was,” says Neander, “a principle inbred into the aristocratic spirit of the old world.”—­General History, ii. p. 72.

[449:4] Such as the numerous works ascribed to Clemens Romanus, and the Ignatian Epistles.

[450:1] Cyprian, Epist. lxxiv. p. 294.

[450:2] Cyprian, Epist. lxxiv. p. 296.

[450:3] Cyprian, Epist. lxxiv. p. 294.

[450:4] The conflicting traditions relative to the time of keeping the Paschal feast afford a striking illustration of this fact.

[450:5] See Kaye’s “Justin Martyr,” p. 75.

[450:6] “Originis vitium.”  “Malum igitur animae.... ex originis vitio antecedit.”—­De Anima, c. 41.  Cyprian calls it “contagio antiqua.”  “Innovati Spiritu Sancto a sordibus contagionis antiquae.”—­De Habitu Virginum, cap iv.

[450:7] “Per quem (Satanan) homo a primordio circumventus, ut praeceptum Dei excederet, et propterea in mortem datus exinde totum genus de suo semine infectum suae etiam damnationis traducem fecit.”—­De Testimonio Animae, c. iii.

[451:1] “Nothing can be less systematic or less organized than their notions on this subject; I might say, often even contradictory; such inconsistency partly, perhaps, arising from the point never having been canvassed by men with any care, as it eventually was by controversialists of a later day,... and partly from the embarrassment of their position; for whilst Scripture and self-experience compelled them to admit the grievous corruption of our nature, they had perpetually to contend against a powerful body of heretics, who made such corruption the ground for affirming that a world so evil could not have been created by a good God, but was the work of a Demiurgus” —­Blunt’s Early Fathers, pp. 585, 586.

[451:2] “Paedagogue,” lib. i.

[451:3] See Kaye’s “Clement,” p. 432.  See also the comments of Neander, “General History,” ii. 388.

[451:4] Pliny’s Epistle to Trajan.