In the διδαχή τῶν ἀποστόλων there is absolutely no dogma. It is all practice, and this is quite in harmony with the use of διδαχή by Paul (I Tim. i. 10), and indeed with the whole tone of these two admirable epistles. [Footnote 20] In the διδαχή τῶν ἀποστόλων, c. xiii., the "_prophets_" are said to be to Christians what the "_high priests_" were to the Jews,--a phraseology which could not possibly have been used had any priesthood, in the Hebrew sense, existed in the early Church. End of Project Gutenberg's What Does History Teach?, by John Stuart Blackie