page 232 note 1 Preface to the 1779 ‘Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists’.
page 233 note 1 See ‘ΨΕΥΔΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΙ (II Cor. xi. 13)’, in Mélanges Bibliques en hommage au R.P. Béda Rigaux (1970), pp. 377–96.
page 233 note 2 This view seems to me much more probable than that which sees all Paul's opponents as gnostics.
page 233 note 3 Petrus und Paulus in Rom (1915)
page 233 note 4 Ramsay, W. M., The Church in the Roman Empire before A.D. 170 (10th edition, no date); cf. pp. 282 f.: ‘While the tradition that St. Peter perished in Rome is strong and early, the tradition about the date of his death is not so clear.’
page 234 note 1 Dockx, S., Nov. T. XIII, 304, gives the two years as A.D. 56–8.
page 234 note 2 Morton, Smith, N.T.S. VII, 86 ff. But had Clement read Acts?
page 234 note 3 There is much of importance in S. G. F. Brandon's discussion of this situation in The Fall of Jerusalem and the Christian Church (1951); but that from A.D. 55 Paul was out of contact with his churches, and discredited in their eyes, is contradicted by Philippians and Colossians, if these were written from Rome. Brandon is surprisingly conservative in his use of Acts xxi.
page 235 note 1 Eusebius, , Church History III. v. 3.Munck, J. (N.T.S. VI, 103 f.) thinks the story a fiction–the city could not be destroyed while any of the righteous remained within it; Brandon (op. cit. pp. 177 f.) that the flight was not to Pella but to Alexandria. The latter view does not affect my argument; the former does not adequately account for the origin of the tradition.
page 235 note 2 Munck (op. cit. pp. 114 f.) rightly points out that later Jewish Christianity was not a lineal descendant of the Jewish Christianity that Paul encountered.
page 235 note 3 Translation by A. Roberts and W. H. Rambaut, in the Ante-Nicene Christian Library. Cf. the Muratorian Canon, lines 63–8.
page 235 note 4 Except, of course, Hebrews.
page 236 note 1 On this important subject, which can only be touched on here, see G. Strecker's translation of the text in Hennecke, E. and Schneemelcher, W., Neutestamentliche Apokryphen II (1964), 76 ff., and his introduction, op. cit. pp. 63–9; the same author's Das Judenchristentum in den Pseudoklementinen (1958); Goppelt, L., Christentum und Judentum im ersten und zweiten Jahrhundert (1954), pp. 171–6;Schoeps, H. J.Theologie und Geschichte des Judenchristentums (1949);Aus frühchristlicher Zeit (1950);Urgemeinde, Judenchristentum, Gnosis (1956);Cullmann, O., Le Problème littéraire et historique du Roman Pseudo-Clémentin (1930).
page 236 note 2 See Bauer, W., Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christentum (1934), pp. 215–30.
page 236 note 3 Op. cit. p. 199. For the texts of Hegesippus see Routh, M. J., Reliquiae Sacrae 1 (1846), 205–19.
page 236 note 4 For details see Routh, op. cit. p. 219. A quotation taken by Photius (in the ninth century) from Stephen Gobarus (in the sixth century) is hardly the highest authority for the views of Hegesippus (in the second century).
page 237 note 1 It is scarcely mitigated by Routh's conjectural attribution (op. cit. pp. 10 f.) to Papias of the passage which is ascribed by Irenaeus, (Adv. Haer. v. xxxvi. 1 f.) to οι πρεσβύτερο and contains a quotation from I Cor. xv. 25–8.
page 237 note 2 One must also bear in mind that, at least according to Eusebius, (Church History III. xxxix. 13), Papias was σφόδρα σμικρός τόν νο⋯ν.
page 237 note 3 But is there not in De Resurrectione 10 an allusion to I Cor. xv. 53?
page 237 note 4 Justin, Martyr (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 47; 1973), pp. 135 f.
page 237 note 5 Knox, J., Marcion and the New Testament (1942), passim, but especially pp. 115 f., supports Bauer in his view not only of Justin but of the general suspicion of Paul in the second century.
page 238 note 1 Wagenmann, J., Die Stellung des Apostels Paulus neben den Zwölf in den ersten zwei Jahrhunderten (Beihefte zur Z.N.W. 3; 1926), pp. 154 f.
page 238 note 2 The Clementines atteack Paul under cover of Simon Magus.
page 238 note 3 See the words of Gaius quoted in Eusebius, , Church History II. xxv. 6 f., and, for the date, among other publications, Toynbee, J. and Perkins, J. W., The Shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican Exvavations (1956), pp. 128 f., 154 f.
page 239 note 1 See Grant, R. M., Gnosticism and Early Christianity (1959), pp. 160 f.
page 239 note 2 It is reasonable to think of a Pauline school, such as Lohse, E. posits for Colossians (N.T.S. xv, 211–20, and the same author's commentary, 1968).
page 240 note 1 See above, p. 234. An alternative possibility is that Paul's imprisonment ended with the failure of his accusers to appear and his departure through the back door of the gaol - an anticlimax that woukd have spoilt Luke's book in a different way.
page 243 note 1 A full discussion would seek traces of it elsewhere, e.g. in the gospels.
page 243 note 2 Allen, E. L., in N.T.S. 1, 143.
page 243 note 3 See Durham University Journal LXIV (new series XXXIII), 198–203.
page 244 note 1 Käsemann, E. (ed.), Das Neue Testament als Kanon (1970), p. 408. Cf. p. 407: ‘…daß es geschichtlich Jahwe nur im Streit mit Baal, Jakob nur in Bindung und Auseinandersetzung gegenüber Esaugibt, Christ und Antichrist stets gleichzeitig auf dem Plane sind, deshalb auch Glaube und Aberglaube, Kirche und Gegenkirche zwar unterschieden, aber nicht irdisch sauber getrennt werden können. Man verkennt den Kanon, wenn man sich einbildet, in ihm sei dieser Streit nicht im Gange, deshalb ihm gegenüber die Prüfung der Geister nicht notwendig.’
page 245 note 1 Nov. T. VII, 224.
page 245 note 2 von Harnack, A., The Origin of the New Testament (1925), p. 141
