place of one of the Twelve to avoid 'putting forth even the semblance of apostolic authority there' (p. 60); but there is not a word in the narrative to suggest this: and when the great question was raised at Antioch about circumcising the Gentiles, certainly the church there appears to recognise an authority at Jerusalem. That authority, after being appealed to and deliberating, sends them a decision by letter and messengers (xv. 22-31)—it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you' such and such necessary 'burdens' and requirements and no more. And it is implied in the course of this letter that though they had in fact given no authorization-‘no commandment’— to those who had gone to Antioch previously and stirred up dissension, yet they might have done so. They had authority to 'give commandment.' The letter goes out in the name of the 'apostles and elder brethren' at Jerusalem. I have spoken of it as 'representing substantially' the authority of the apostles. Dr. Sanday (Conception of Priesthood p. 44 n.) complains this is not 'strict exegesis.' Does this mean that it does not inhere in the particular words (xv. 23) taken by themselves? It certainly does not. But what gave the church at Jerusalem authority to send a mission of this kind to another church? The whole Acts would assure us it was because the church at Jerusalem contained the apostles, and the apostles were the Church's authoritative teachers and centre of unity. Further, Dr. Hort, in restricting the authority of the apostles to Jerusalem, has not considered all the language which St. Paul uses (see above p. 211 ff.) to describe the authority which he conceives to belong to him 'in all the churches' equally-for edification not destruction,' but with 'destructive' powers attached simply because he is an apostle. He only notices where St. Paul does not (he says) assert it-viz., in his letter to the Romans. The 'total absence' (in this epistle) of any claim to authority illustrates how large a part of the authority which he exercised towards other Ecclesiae was not official, so to speak, but personal '—the authority of a founder (pp. 133, 197). Now no doubt it is in accordance with St. Paul's tact that he would not speak of authority to those who did not know him. But even here he justifies his 'boldness' in addressing them by the fact of the universal and quasi-priestly mission divinely given him towards the whole Gentile world (xv. 15-17). Here is the ground of an authority which he must exercise according to his judgment of fitness, whether at Rome or elsewhere. On the whole, Dr. Hort's argument against the existence of an apostolic office of government ordained by Christ Himself is singularly unconvincing. He does not deal at all satisfactorily either with the language of the Gospels, or with the position assigned to the apostles in the Acts, or with the claim which St. Paul plainly attached to the apostolic office or stewardship, and which he delegates to his representatives, Timothy and Titus, as, according to Dr. Hort's own phrase, 'a paramount authority' (p. 197) at Ephesus and Crete. pseudo- 254 n., 326 n., 339, 346. Amalarius of Treves 315, 326 n., 339. Ambrose, St., of Milan 72 n., 81, 146 n., Ammia 254, 351, 355. Ananias 139 n., 231 n. Ancyra, Church of 102 n. Andronicus 210 n., 248 n. Anicetus of Rome 17, 103 n., 105, 109. Annianus of Alexandria 115 n., 316 Anselm, St., of Canterbury 149 n. Antiochus Epiphanes 361. Apamea 113. Apollonius 352. Apollos 234, 235 n. Apophthegmata 121 ff. Apostolic Canons 173 n., 175 n., 319, 367. Apostolic Church Order 247, 319, 367, 326 n., 356, 360. Appian 360. Archippus 221 n. 166 n., 245 n., 254 n., 285 n., 321 n., Arethas of Caesarea 228 n. Ascoli, G. I. 357 n., 358 n. Athens, Church of 114, 221 n., 273. BACCHYLLUS OF CORINTH 114. Barnabas, St. 66 n., 216 n., 230 fi., Barnabas, Epistle of 373. Basil, St., of Caesarea 97, 110 п., 146 n., 162 n., 174, 177 n., 329, 343, 347- Basilides 342. Baucalis 126 n. Baur, F. C. 224 n., 362 n. Bernard, Abp. J. H. 3 n., 17 n., 284 n. Bigg, C. 22 n., 66 n., 75 n., 116 n., Chillingworth, W. 93 n. Chorepiscopi 130 n., 198 n., 327 ff. Chrysostom, St. John, of Constanti- nople 88, 378; on orders 137, 146, | 148 n., 160 n., 216, 217 m., 236 n., Claudius Apollinaris of Hierapolis 113. Clementines 66 n., 109 n., 110 ff., 143, 170 n., 173, 181 n., 198 n., 244 D., Collectio Avellana 332. Collegia 25 ff., 44 £f. Colluthus 120, 333. Comana (Coumana) 113. Confessors 134. Connolly, Dom R. H. 135 n. Constantine, Emperor 125. Constantius, Emperor 126, 156. Corinth 109, 114 ff., 213 ff., 268 n., Cornelius of Rome 151 n., 333, 342 fl. Deaconess 214 n., 230 n., 240. Demetrius of Alexandria 116, 126 ff., Denny and Lacey 166 n. Denton, W. 80, 95. Dictionary of Christian Antiquities 88 n., Dictionary of Christian Biography 81 n., Didascalia 131 ff., 139 n., 181, 247, 254 n., 269, 285 n., 345, 372. Diognetum, Epistola ad 64 n., 74 n. 151 n., 315. Ecce Homo [J. R Seeley] 31. Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Edersheim, A. 34 n., 203 n. Edmundson, G. 247 n., 274 n., 374. Eleutherus of Rome 100, 106, 109. Ellicott, Bp. C. J. 221 n. Emesa 122 ff. Encratites 177 n. Enoch, Book of 18 n. Ephesus 220 ff., 260; succession at 112 Ephraem Syrus 5 n., 112 n., 148 n. Epiphanius of Salamis 126 n., 147 ff. Estcourt, E. E. 57 n., 94 n. Estius, G. 216 n. Eugenius IV., Pope 57 n. Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesi- astica 17, 24 n., 88 n., 100 ff., 127 n. 147 n., 149 n., 151 n., 179 n., 194 n Eustathius of Sebaste 147 n. Evangelists 199 n., 238 ff., 248, 253. Fowler, J. T. 150 n. Funk, F. X. 131 n., 132 n. GAIUS, Emperor 28 n. Gaius of Thessalonica 115 n., 221 n. Gaul 100, 149, 291 n. Gebhardt and Harnack 277 n. 327. Gieseler, J. C. L. 340. Gladstone, W. E. 65 n., 68 n., 94 n., 99, 209 n. Godet, F. 6, 198 n., 201 n., 207 n. Gortyna, Church of 115. Grapte 292 n. Greece, Church of 114. Gregorian Sacramentary 163 n., 323, Gregory of Alexandria 86. Gregory, St., of Nazianzus 110 п., 129 n., Gregory, St., of Nyssa 97, 146 n., 378 n. HADDAN, A. W. 88 n. Hadrian, Emperor 24, 114, 117 n. Hananias of Alexandria. See Annianus. 2 D., Hatch, E.: on the Church 6 n., 7 n., 8 n., Hauler, E. 132 n. Headlam, A. C. 4 n., 132 n., 136, 172 n. Heraclas of Alexandria 118, 126 ff., Hermas, The Shepherd of: date 292; on the Church 10 n., 17 ff., 46, 48 n., 285, 286 n., 292 fl., 359, 373, 374 - ; prophecy 254, 292, 355 ff.; sacra- Heurtley, C. A. 14 n. Hickes, Bp. G. 82 n. Hilarianus Hilarius 157 n. Hippolytus 15 n., 189 n., 194 n., 292 n. ; Hittorp, M., de divinis catholicae ecclesiae Holland, H. S. 31n., 33 n., 38 n., 201 n. Hort, F. J. A. 30 n., 33 n., 41 n., 110 n., Hosius of Cordova 120. IBAS OF EDESSA 317. Ignatius, St., of Antioch, 111 ff., 252, Irenaeus, St., of Lyons 100 f., 254, 296, Isaac. See Ambrosiaster. Isidore, St., of Pelusium 82. Isidore, St., of Seville 75 n., 97, 142 n.; Ivo of Chartres 75 n., 142 n. |