and the other apostles to the seventy, of whom Barnabas was one. (Hyp. 8 in H.E. 2.1.4) Again, Clement’s awareness of traditions surrounding James’s authority makes it even more difficult to understand how he could avoid referring directly to the letter of James if he were aware of its existence.20 It is with the great biblical scholar Origen of Alexandria (d. ca. 253) that we enter a new phase in the development of the CE collection, for Origen is the first church father to offer some overt comment