2157] _Ibid._, 104.

[2158] Ueberweg, _Hist. Philos._, I, 45.

[2159] Lecky, _Eur. Morals_, II, 314.

[2160] Stengel, _Griech. Kultusalterthuemer_, 35.

[2161] Euripides, _Hippolytus_, 1300; _Trojan Women_, 38, 975.

[2162] Mahaffy, _The Grecian World under Roman Sway_, 180.

[2163] Lecky, _Eur. Morals_, II, 315.

[2164] Lucian, _De Syria Dea_, sec. 28.

[2165] _Jewish Encyc._, V, 226.

[2166] Levit. xv. 16, 18; Deut. xxiii. 11; Josephus, _Cont. Ap._,
II, 24.

[2167] Judges xiii. 4-14; Amos ii. 11.

[2168] Lucius, _Essenismus_, 102.

[2169] Josephus, _Antiq._, XIII, 5, 9.

[2170] Cook, _Fathers of Jesus_, II, 30, 38.

[2171] Hastings, Dict. Bib., _Devel. of Doct. in Apoc. Period_;
Supp. Vol. 292, a.

[2172] Lucius, _Essenismus_, 54, 59, 68.

[2173] _Ibid._, 52.

[2174] _Jewish Encyc._, V, s. v. "Essenes."

[2175] Cook, _Fathers of Jesus_, II, 48; Lucius, _Essenismus_,
131; Graetz, _Gesch. der Juden_, III, 92 ff.

[2176] Harnack, _Pseudoclement. Briefe de Virg._, 3.

[2177] Hatch, _Griechenthum und Christenthum_, 121.

[2178] Lea, _Sacer. Celib._, 29.

[2179] Hatch, _Griechenthum und Christenthum_, 108.

[2180] _Ibid._, 109.

[2181] Harnack, _Pseudo-Clement. Briefe de Virg._, 19, 21, 22.

[2182] Hatch, 122.

[2183] Hatch, 123.

[2184] Harnack, _Dogmengesch._, I, 747.

[2185] _Ibid._, 59.

[2186] _Ibid._, 60.

[2187] Such perversions have been very frequent. See Todd, _Life
of St. Patrick_, 91, for a case; also, Lea, _Inquisition_, III,
109. Sometimes the test was to show that the temptation was
powerless. Lea, _Inquis._, II, 357; _Sacerd. Celib._, 167.

[2188] Wellhausen, _Skizzen und Vorarbeiten_, III, 210.

[2189] _Hist. of Religions_, section of the _Amer. Orient. Soc._,
VII, 22.

[2190] Achelis, _Virgines Subintroductae_. The author thinks that
the relationship was one of Platonic comradeship.

[2191] See Peter Lombard, _Sentent._, IV, 31.

[2192] _Early Eng. Text Soc._, 1866.

[2193] Cf. Lea, _Inquis._, II, 214, about Peter Martyr.

[2194] _Nouveaux Mem. de l'Acad. des Sciences, lettres et beaux
arts de Belgique_, XXIII, 30.

[2195] The ideas of Francis had been promulgated by the
Timotheists in the fifth century. They were then declared
heretical (Lea, _Sacerd. Celib._, 377).

[2196] Carmichael, _In Tuscany_, 224.