...appearance of being contemporary with them. The manuscript may therefore be assigned with some security to the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. The commentator accordingly must have written at least a hundred years before Alexander Aphrodisiensis...

...consider its kinship with gnosticism, and various other features which it shows — surely not before the end of the first, or the beginning of the second, century. On the other side, we may venture to say, not later than the middle of the second century. Clement...

...Him, to Whom be glory for ever and ever i'." Amen. In the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, compiled at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, we find a Form of Thanksgiving which was used apparently at the Agape, and which will be given with...

...readers." But it is surely most unlikely, however special the conditions in some Christian community at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century were, that it should have contained several members with qualities of mind and spiritual temper which...

...a single reference to " The 104 doctrine of the twelve Apostles," a manual probably not later than the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. " And the second commandment of the Teaching is : Thou shalt not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery...

...the other hand, the real as distinguished from the imaginary contest was between the Paulinists of the end of the first or the beginning of the second century and their opponents, the cessation of the name was its natural result, and the whole sequence becomes...

...will comprehend the power that is upon it." The Didache, or Teaching of the Apostle», was written at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century. Lightfoot considers it to be of the earlier date, chiefly because in it bishops and presbyters are...

...implied in noj3. As this incident, äs also that of R. Tarfon's marriage, occurred in Lydda towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second Century, it would be of special interest to establish whether the induction of the bride ' into the nein constituted...

...a coherent theological doctrine was the main reason for dating these ecstatic hymns of salvation at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century AD, when the nascent Christian faith was not yet exposed to the influence of Greek philosophical thought.1...

...and those that are immortal but have had a beginning was recognized and commented on by Plutarch near the end of the first or the beginning of the second century CE12 It was, in fact, a widespread idea by the beginning of our era, two historians of the late first...