Clement of Rome

“ May we not conclude also that the sublime prayer and doxology of Eph. iii. 14–21 is a quotation from the Apostle’s own eucharistic τάξις for the whole state of Christ’s Church militant?
Might not the same be more constantly used in our days as an intercession for the whole flock of the one Shepherd?
II.
(Fulfil His constitution, p. 489.)
The Pauline Norm being borne in mind, we shall best comprehend this Clementine liturgy, as to its primitive claims, by taking the testimony of Justin, writing in Rome to the Antonines a. d.160. ”

“ Does Irenæus quote from the Clementine, or the Clementine from him? Or is it not much more likely that they are independent witnesses to primitive uses, going back to the period of the persecutions, and extending far beyond the limits of Syria or Palestine’?” [10]
I shall recur to these passages in the elucidations to Early Liturgies (infra) : but here I beg the reader to consult Pfaff, to whom we owe the discovery of the fragment cited from Irenæus ”

“ See 1 Pet. ii. 5. ↑ 1 Cor. xi. 5, 6. Here men are equally enjoined not to follow the Jewish rite of covering their heads in prayer. ↑ Eph. v. 14. ↑ See the Greek in Hammond, p. 3, and the learned Introduction, p. lxx. ↑ Hammond, Introduction, p. lxix. ↑ See translation, p. 489, supra. ↑ See translation, vol. i. (Fragment xxxvii.) p. 574, this series. ↑ For purposes of comparison on many points connected with this inquiry, see the Fragment of an Ancient East-Syrian Liturgy in Hammond’s Appendix, published separately, Oxford, 1879. ”