cq, "Hymnes," _Dictionnaire D' Archeologie Chretienne, etc._
(Paris, Letouzey, 1925), vol. 16, 2826-2928; Part I, _Hymnographie
des trois premiers siecles_, 2826-2859.

[2]C. S. Phillips, _Hymnody, Past and Present_ (London, S. P. C. K.,
1937).

[3]J. Kroll, "Die Hymnendichtung des fruehen Christentums," _Die Antike_,
2 (1926), 258-281.

[4]J. Mearns, _Canticles of the Christian Church_ (Cambridge, Un. Press,
1914), 1; F. Cabrol, "Cantiques," _Dictionnaire D' Archeologie
Chretienne, etc._, vol. 2 (2), 1976.

[5]All biblical passages quoted in this paper are given in the _King
James Version_ of the English Bible.

[6]R. H. Charles, _The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament_
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913), vol. I, 627-629.

[7]J. Mearns, _op. cit._ (see note 4), 1.

[8]F. Cabrol, _op. cit._ (see note 4), 1976-1977.

[9]J. Julian, _Dictionary of Hymnology_ (London, John Murray, 1892),
"Canons," 461, 463.

[10]Quotations from the Psalms are not included in this paper.

[11]C. H. Toy, _Quotations in the New Testament_ (New York, Scribners,
1884), 199-200.

[12]E. F. Scott, _The Pastoral Epistles_ (New York, Harper, no date), 14.

[13]J. Kroll, _op. cit._ (see note 3), 264.

[14]M. Dibelius, _A Fresh Approach to the New Testament and Early
Christian Literature_ (New York, Scribners, 1936), 247.

[15]R. Reitzenstein, _Die Hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen_ (Leipzig,
Teubner, 1927), 3rd edition, 385.

[16]G. D. Kellogg, _The Ancient Art of Poetic Improvisation_, a paper
read at the meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic
States, April 26, 1940; J. Kroll, _op. cit._ (see note 3), 259.

[17]_Contra Haereses_, III, xvii, 2; Migne (PG), VII, 929-930. For a
recent commentator, see F. J. Foakes-Jackson, _The Acts of the
Apostles_ (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1931), 10-13.

[18]Note the citation, _I Tim. 6:15-16_, _supra_, p. 7, in which the
repetition of the relative clause produces a stylistic effect.

[19]Justin Martyr, _Apologia pro Christianis_, 67; Migne (PG), VI, 430.
Translation from _Ante-Nicene Fathers_ (New York, Scribners, 1899),
I, 14.

[20]_Didache_, xiv; Translation from _Ante-Nicene Fathers_, VII, 381.

[21]_Apostolic Constitutions_, II, lvii; Translation from _Ante-Nicene
Fathers_, VII, 421-422.

[22]_Ante-Nicene Fathers_, VII, 371-376; _Catholic Encyclopedia_, IV,
779f; _Encyclo