General Note. ———————————— The Banquet appears to me a genuine work, although, like other writings of this Father, it may have been corrupted. Tokens of such corruptions are not wanting, and there can be little doubt that Methodius the monkish artist and missionary of the ninth century has been often copied into the works of his earlier namesake. 2981 In a fragment, for example, found on a preceding page, 2982 there is a passage on God’s image in angels and men, which appears in its more probable form in another fragment, 2983 discovered by Combefis. As quoted by St. John Damascene, it is enough to say of it, with the candid Dupin, “ I very much question whether the passage belongs to Methodius ; or, if it does, it must be taken in another sense 2984 than that in which Damascene understood it, as the words which immediately precede seem to intimate.” That it is a positive anachronism in any other sense, is proved by the history of Images, on which see Epiphanius, quoted by Faber, Difficulties of Romanism , p. 488, ed. 1830. He gives St. Jerome, Opp ., ii. p. 177. A learned friend suggests that the Rev. J. Endell Tyler’s popular work on Primitive Christian Worship may supply an accessible reference. 2985 It is a very good thought, for the whole book is worth reading, on other points also. 2981     Murdock’s Mosheim, Eccles. Hist. , ii. 51. 2982     P. 369, note 4, supra . 2983     The Jonah Fragment , p. 378, supra . 2984     The sense, that is, of the golden image of God in angels, and “in clay or brass, as ourselves. ” See p. 378, supra . 2985     See pp. 131, 132, edition of the London Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.