ancient world is bound to be imperfect if founded solely on the literary texts, and that comparisons between Primitive Christianity and this world restored in fragments made up of fragments might easily prove erroneous. Even so brilliant and learned a scholar as Eduard Norden,1 in criticising Primitive Christianity in its linguistic and literary aspects, insisted upon contrasts between St. Paul and the ancient world which in reality are mere contrasts between artless non-literary prose and the
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