Abbreviation
PGM: Papyri Graecae Magicae
NASB: New American Standard Bible
Ancient sources
Ambrose of Milan, On the Sacraments and On the Mysteries, ed. J.H. Srawley transl. T. Thompson, New York, 1919.
Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of S. Augustine, ed. and transl. E.B. Pusey, Oxford, J.H. Parker, 1838.
Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustin’s City of God and Christian Doctrin, ed. and transl. P. Schaff, Buffalo, The Chrsitian Literature Company, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church 2, 1887.
Constitutiones apostolicæ = The Work Claiming to be the Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, Including the Canons, transl. (from the German) I. Chase, New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1848.
Papyri Graecae Magicae, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells, ed. H.D. Betz, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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