CHAPTER V.

CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCHES DURING THIS PERIOD.³⁷⁸³⁷⁸The principal work of reference on this subject is Rothe, " Anfänge der christlichen Kirche." See also Ritschl's work, "Altcatholische Kirche;" and the various histories of the apostolic age already quoted. We refer the reader also to Bingham's "Origines seu Antiquitates ecclesiasticæ." Halæ, I724. Vitringa, "De Synagog. vetere." Ignatius, "Von Antiochien und seine Zeit." Sieben Zendschreiben. Bunsen, Hamburg, 1847.