Philip Schaff

“ Hilgenfeld says: “There is scarcely a single writing which is of so great importance for the history of Christianity in its first stage, and which has already given such brilliant disclosures at the hands of the most renowned critics in regard to the earliest history of the Christian Church, as the writings ascribed to the Roman Clement, the Recognitions and Homilies.” [2] The importance thus attached to these strange and curious documents by one school of theologians, has compelled men of all shades of belief to investigate the subject ”

“ See Introductory Notice, supra.—R.] ↑ [The title, which varies in different manuscripts, is derived from the “narrating, in the last books, of the re-union of the scattered members of the Clementine family, who all at last find themselves together in Christianity, and are baptized by Peter” (Schaff, History) .—R.] ↑ See Schliemann, Die Clementinen, Hamburg, 1844, p. ”