[320:2] Tertullian, “De Pudicitia,” c. 7.  But all were not so scrupulous, for Tertullian elsewhere complains that the image-makers were chosen to church offices.  “De Idololatria,” c. 7.

[320:3] Tertullian, “De Idololatria,” c. 6.

[321:1] Cyprian, “Ad Donatum,” Opera, p. 5.

[321:2] Tertullian, “De Spectaculis,” c. 4.  According to the English Liturgy the person baptized “renounces the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.”  This was originally intended to apply to such exhibitions as those mentioned in the text.

[322:1] Tertullian, “De Pudicitia,” c. 7.  Theophilus to Autolycus, book iii.

[322:2] Tertullian “Apol.” c. 44.  Minucius Felix, in his “Octavius,” makes a similar statement:—­“The prisons are crowded with criminals of your religion, but no Christian is there, unless he is either accused on account of his faith, or is a deserter from his faith.”

[322:3] Justin Martyr, in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, says to him—­“Your blind and foolish teachers even to this day permit every one of you to have four or five wives.”—­Opera, p. 363.

[323:1] 1 Tim. iii. 2, 12.

[323:2] Rom. vii. 1-3; 1 Cor. vii. 2.

[323:3] The Montanists, in their extravagance, insisted that any one who contracted a second marriage after the death of his first wife should be excommunicated.

[323:4] 2 Cor. vi. 14.

[324:1] Tertullian, “Ad Uxorem,” ii. 4.

[324:2] Gibbon, “Decline and Fall,” chap. ii.  Some writers, such as Zumpt and Merivale, consider this estimate quite extravagant.  Others again think it quite too low.  See Schaff’s “History of the Christian Church,” p. 316.  New York, 1859.

[324:3] Gal. iii. 28.

[325:1] Onesimus, the slave mentioned Philem. 10, 16, probably became a Christian minister.

[325:2] 1 Cor. vii. 21.

[325:3] 1 Cor. vii. 20-22.

[325:4] 1 Tim. vi. 1, 2.

[325:5] Kindness to slaves was particularly enjoined by the early Church teachers.  See Cyprian, “Lib.  Tres.  Test. adv.  Judaeos,” lib. iii.  Sec. 72, 73.

[325:6] It is stated in the “Octavius” of Minucius Felix that, in the estimation of the heathen, “for a slave to be partaker in certain religious ceremonies is deemed abominable impiety.” (c. 25.)

[326:1] One of the laws made by Constantine shortly after his conversion sanctioned the manumission of slaves on the Lord’s day.

[326:2] Thus, on one occasion, Cyprian raised a contribution of about L900 in Carthage to purchase the release of some Christians of Numidia.  Cyprian, Epist. lx. p. 216.  Tertullian said to the heathen, “Our charity dispenses more in every street, than your religion in each temple.”—­Apol. c. 42.

[327:1] About A.D. 252.

[327:2] Cyprian, “Ad Demetrianum,” and “De Mortalitate.”  “Vita Cypriani per Pontium,” c. 9.