Steps of Deviation in the Early Christian Church

Roberts Alexander and Donaldson James (editors): The Ante-Nicene Fathers, 10 vols. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. All quotations are from this edition, unless otherwise credited.

All dates, although not completely accurate, are those commonly accepted by the scholars.

Walker Williston , A History of the Christian Church. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942, p. 135, quoting from Mirbt, Quellen zur Geschichte des Papsttums, p. 65.

Kidd B. J. : A History of the Church to A.D. 461—vol. I. Oxford, Claredon Press, 1922, p. 265, note 5.

Walker , op. cit., p. 59.

Schaff Philip : History of the Christian Church, vol. II. New-York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884, p. 133.

quoted by Schaff, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 1234, note.

I Cor. 3:9, 22, 23; Philip. 2:1-8; Eph. 4:3-6; Romans 15:5-6.

Schaff , op. cit., vol. II, p. 149.

Mark 10:4244.

Eph. 2:20; I Peter 2:4-7.

Eph. 4:15-16; I Cor. 12:12-27; Rom. 12:4-5.

2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:23-27, 32.

Schaff , op. cit., vol. II, p. 170.

Ibid, p. 171.

Ibid, p. 172.

Schaff David S. : Our Fathers Faith and Ours. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. p. 200.

1 Tim. 2:5.

Heb. 4:16.

1 Peter 2:5; Rev. 1:6; 5:10.

Especially the Epistle to the Hebrews.

1 Peter 5:3.

Epistle to Corinthians, xl.

John 3:3-7.

Mark 1:15.

John 3:8.

John 6:63: 1 Cor. 11:27; 1 Peter 3:21.

1 Peter 3:21.

Acts 2:38-41; 8:36-38; 16:31-33.

Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12.

Sezonov Luke L. : The Early Accretions to Christianity; unpublished Thesis, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1946. p. 56.

Epistle lviii.

Luke 22:19.

1 Cor. 10:16.

1 Cor. 11:24-26.

In Treatise IV, xviii, comment on John 6:53.

Heresies IV, xvii, 5.

ch. xxxiii of Epistle to Corinthians.

On Works and Alms, Treatise VIII.

Lightfoot J. B. : The Apostolic Fathers. London, MacMillan & Co., 1912, p. 41.

On Works and Alms, Treatise VIII.

Schaff Philip , op. cit., vol. II p. 606.

The Catholic Encyclopaedia, 15 vols. New York, Robert Appleton Co., 1911. Vol. XII, “Purgatory” p. 577.

Ibid.