nity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Sec. 5 (v. 22-vi. 9) The law of subordination and authority 211
husbands and wives (v. 22-33) . . . . . 212
parents and children (vi. 1-4) . . . . 228
masters and slaves (vi. 5-9) . . . . . 233

Sec. 6 (vi. 10-20) The personal spiritual struggle . . . . . 237

CONCLUSION (vi. 21-24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

APPENDED NOTES:--

A. The Roman Empire recognized by Christians as a
Divine Preparation for the Spread of the Gospel . . . . . 251

B. The (so-called) 'Letters of Heracleitus' . . . . . . . . . 253

C. The Jewish Doctrine of Works in _The Apocalypse of Baruch_ 257

D. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

E. The Conception of the Church Catholic in St. Paul in
its Relation to Local Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

F. The Ethics of Catholicism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

G. The Lambeth Conference and Industrial Problems . . . . . . 274

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THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS

_Introduction._

i.

[Sidenote: _Introduction_]

There are two great rivers of Europe which, in their course, offer a
not uninstructive analogy to the Church of God. The Rhine and the
Rhone both take their rise from mountain glaciers, and for the first
hundred or hundred and fifty miles from their sources they run turbid
as glacier streams always are, and for the most part turbulent as
mountain torrents. Then they enter the great lakes of Constance and
Geneva. There, as in vast settling-vats, they deposit all the
discolouring elements which have hitherto defiled their waters, so that
when they re-emerge from the western ends of the lakes to run their
courses in central and southern Europe their {2} waters have a
translucent purity altogether delightful to contemplate. After this
the two rivers have very different destinies, but either from fouler
affluents or from the commercial activity upon their surfaces or along
their banks they lose the purity which characterized their second
birth, and become as foul as ever they were among their earlier
mountain fastnesses; till after all vicissitudes they lose themselves
to north or south in the vast and cleansing sea.

The history of these rivers offers, I say, a remarkable parallel to the
history of the Church of God. For that too takes its