Endnote 8 – What Are Pagan River Gods Doing in Scenes of Jesus’ Baptism?

Origen, Commentarius in Johannes 6.238–239, trans. Ronald E. Heine, Origen Commentary on the Gospel according to John Books 1–10, Fathers of Church Series (FOC) 80 (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1989), p. 233; and Cyril of Jerusalem, Catacheses 3.5, trans. Leo P. McCauley, The Works of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, FOC 64 (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1969), vol. 1, p. 111. This passage is particularly cited by Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 86.6, trans. Thomas B. Falls, Writings of Saint justin Martyr, FOC 9 (New York: Christian Heritage, 1948), pp. 285–286; Greek text in Johannes C. T. Otto (1841), pp. 311–315; Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 5.16.4, trans. A Cleveland Coxe, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers (ANF) vol. 1, p. 545; Greek text in Migne, PG, vol. 7, cols. 1170–1172; and Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos 13, trans., S. Thelwall, ANF; vol. 3, pp. 170–171; text in Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum (CSEL) 70 (1942), pp. 251–331.