The right includes several of the older writers; among the moderns the most conspicuous figure is the Roman Catholic Bishop Hefele.

Tischendorf also, though as it is pointed out somewhat inconsistently, leans to this side.

According to their opinion the Epistle would be written shortly before A.D.70.

On the left, the names quoted are Volkmar, Baur, Scholten, Stap, and Schwegler [Endnote 59:1].

Baur contents himself with the remark that the Epistle to the Corinthians, 'as one of the oldest documents of Christian antiquity, might have passed without question as a writing of the Roman Clement,' had not this Clement become a legendary person and had so many spurious works palmed off upon him [Endnote 59:2].