. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. GHechische Ostraka, 253 ff. • A most grotesque theory was put forward as late as 1897 by Linke in theFestschrift fur Professor D. Fricke (of. Theol. Literaturblatt, 19 [1898] ). He suggests that the great logia in the field of St. Pauls missionarylabours was not a collection of money but a determination of the forms ofdoctrine- and liturgical formulations that had arisen within the churchesthrough special gifts of the Spirit. St. Paul, he thinks, wishes to obtain the
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. GHechische Ostraka, 253 ff. • A most grotesque theory was put forward as late as 1897 by Linke in theFestschrift fur Professor D. Fricke (of. Theol. Literaturblatt, 19 [1898] ). He suggests that the great logia in the field of St. Pauls missionarylabours was not a collection of money but a determination of the forms ofdoctrine- and liturgical formulations that had arisen within the churchesthrough special gifts of the Spirit. St. Paul, he thinks, wishes to obtain theresults of the thought and prayer, revelations and spiritual hymns of eachsingle church in the course of an ecclesiastical year. The parallel to themodern German system of church returns is so close that one wonders almostat the omission of statistics of mixed marriages I Cf. especially Wilcken, Grieehisehe Ostraha, I. p. 253fE.; J. H. Moulton,The Expositor, February 1903, p. 116, December 1903, p. 434; Mayser,Orammatik der griechisohen Papyri, p. 417. Wilcken, Grieehisehe Ostraka, II. No. 413. • No. Fia. 9.—Ostracon, Thebes, 4 August, 63 Receipt for Isis Collection. Now in theBerlin Museum. By permission of the Directors of the Royal Museums. [p. 106 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 105 (Figure 9) I am indebted to the kind offices ofWUhelm little document ^ runs as follows :— Wepafwvvi,; IIeKvaio<;\ Xpa aov S * S oj8o rriv Xoyiav lo-tSos -n-epl T&v Stj/wa-ioovL * ivdrov Nepavoi; tov KvplovMeaopi] m. PsenamuHis, the son of Pekysis,phennesis, to the homologos *Pibuchis, the son of Pateesis,greeting. I have received fromthee 4 drachmae 1 obol, beingthe collection of Isis on behalfof the public works. In theyear nine of Nero the lord,*Mesore 11th. Beyond the numerous instances of the use of theword in Egypt, the only witness for the word inAsia Minor was St. Paul. Inscriptions now forth-coming from Asia Minor are therefore a very welcomeaddition t
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