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^{page 137 note 1} ‘Avec un langage tout différent de celui de Jésus, Paul retrouve les affirmations essentielles de son Maître’: Trocmé, E., Histoire des Religions (Encyclopédie de la Pléiade), II, Paris, 1972, p. 214.Google Scholar

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^{page 137 note 3} Cf. amongst others, J., Murphy O'Connor (ed.), Paul and Qumran, London, 1968.Google Scholar It must not, however, be forgotten that the Essene movement itself was, perhaps deeply, influenced by non-Jewish thought.

^{page 137 note 4} Bousset, W., Kyrios Christos, Göttingen, 1913.Google Scholar

^{page 138 note 1} Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kirchengeschichte, II, I, Tübingen, 1927, p. 20.Google Scholar

^{page 138 note 2} Geschichte der paulinischen Forschung, Tübingen, 1911, p. 152.Google Scholar

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^{page 139 note 1} ‘Das christliche Mysterium und die heidnischen Mysterien’, Eranos Jahrbwfh, 1944, p. 356.Google Scholar

^{page 139 note 2} Justin Martyr, addressing Antoninus and his imperial associates and speaking of the Mithraic meal, alludes to the words pronounced on that occasion which, he says, ‘you know or may learn’, obviously without being initiated: I Apol., 66, 4.

^{page 139 note 3} Cf. Dunand, F., Le Culte d'Isis dans letassin oriental de la Méditerranée, III, Leiden, 1973, p. 251, n. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 139 note 4} I have discussed this point in my contribution to the forthcoming W. D. Davies Festschrift.

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^{page 141 note 1} De errore profan, relig., 22, 3.

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^{page 142 note 1} Geschichte, p. 151.

^{page 143 note 1} Metam. xi, 23.

^{page 143 note 2} The meal mentioned in Metam. xi, 24 as taking place on two successive days is just a joyful banquet which follows the initiation; it is no integral part of it and seems to be a semi-religious and semi-profane function: Apuleius describes it in turn as suaves epulae, faceta convivia, jentaeulum religiosum.