Texts and Studies, Vol. 8

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Excerpt from Texts and Studies, Vol. 8: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature The document which come under consideration in this volume are, as its title may suggest, that closely related family of Church Orders in which the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions and the Canons of Hippolytus are the most conspicuous members. Although these documents, five in number, have now for some time past attracted widespread attention, yet but little agreement has been arrived at in regard to the question of their relative antiquity and the manner of their interconnexion. A fresh discussion of the problems involved calls therefore for no apology. Since the publication, in 1891, of H. Achelis's Canones Hippolyti it is the Canons of Hippolytus that have stood in the foreground, and they have been widely accepted, especially in this country and in France, as the most ancient of these Church Orders, and indeed as the source from which all the others have been derived. But the late Dr F. X. Funk of Tubingen maintained that the earliest of the documents, and the source of the rest, was the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions, and his view still enjoys a considerable measure of acceptance in Germany. The present discussion deals afresh with the question of the relations of the whole group of documents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.