The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . mention (). He had treasured upmany a deep saying of the Masters which had failedto pass into the Synoptic tradition, shaped as it wasby a natural selection determined by the Palestinianenvironment of the earliest preaching. And as hisown environment changed from Palestine to many-sided Ephesus, stimulative of the more reflectiveaspects of any religion, there came back to him, inhis practical work of teaching, situations and sayingsof which he had not before seen the inner signifi-cance. And so the distinctive cycle of the Jo
The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . mention (). He had treasured upmany a deep saying of the Masters which had failedto pass into the Synoptic tradition, shaped as it wasby a natural selection determined by the Palestinianenvironment of the earliest preaching. And as hisown environment changed from Palestine to many-sided Ephesus, stimulative of the more reflectiveaspects of any religion, there came back to him, inhis practical work of teaching, situations and sayingsof which he had not before seen the inner signifi-cance. And so the distinctive cycle of the Johan-nine witness took ever fuller and more 1 We feel that the general impression of the place of love in theMusters teaching left on the mind by the Synoptic Gospels, im-plies a good deal more than they report on this theme. HereJohns gospel but supplies what Christian experience divines musthave existed in that teaching which was so far above the discipleswho heard it. 2 For its relation to the Synoptic narrative see Literary CHAPTER V. Rome and Corinth: Clements Epistle. URING some thirty years from the Nero-nian outbreak in 64, we have no clearknowledge of the fortunes of the Churchin either of these chief centres of thegospel in the West. But we may safelyinfer a few things as regards Rome. Already inPauls day Christianity seems to have obtained afooting among the slaves and freedmen (often Jews)of certain noble houses, including Caesars. Nay weknow of one case, quite by chance, in which thenoble mistress of such a household had herself im-bibed the new faith l before Paul reached Rome. Ac-cordingly we may imagine Christianity spreadingsteadily among the dependents of not a few noblehouses, and even among the more seriously mindedmembers of some of them; until we get tragic evi-dence of its presence in the case of Titus FlaviusClemens and his wife Domitilla, both relations of theEmperor Domitian, as already described. This crowning act of jealou
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