CHAPTER VI.
THE CLEMENTINE HOMILIES.
It is unfortunate that there are not sufficient materials for determining the date of the Clementine Homilies.

Once given the date and a conclusion of considerable certainty could be drawn from them; but the date is uncertain, and with it the extent to which they can be used as evidence either on one side or on the other.
Some time in the second century there sprang up a crop of heretical writings in the Ebionite sect which were falsely attributed to Clement of Rome.

The two principal forms in which these have come down to us are the so-called Homilies and Recognitions.

The Recognitions however are only extant in a Latin translation by Rufinus, in which the quotations from the Gospels have evidently been assimilated to the Canonical text which Rufinus himself used.

They are not, therefore, in any case available for our purpose.