Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple and Other Fragments

(Vexillas,—as they are called, p. 399.)

It is very curious to note how certain ideas are inherited from the earliest Fathers, and travel down, as here, to find a new expression in a distant age. Here our author reflects Justin Martyr,³¹⁹⁰ and the Labarum³¹⁹¹ itself is the outcrop of what Justin wrote to Antoninus Pius.