One of the most recent utterances on this point occurs in Bishop Wordsworth’s book ‘The Ministry of Grace.’ He says,[263] “Of all the revolutions introduced by Christianity into the social life of mankind the new position given to women has been, perhaps, the most remarkable and the most fruitful in results.” Zscharnack, who has written by far the most thorough book on the subject, speaks with much more caution.[264] “In the first place,” he says, “it cannot be proved that to Christianity alone is due the honour of the emancipation of women and the realization of the true conception of marriage; rather had Greece as well as the social relations in Rome prepared the way in this matter, as in the question of the emancipation of slaves, to no inconsiderable degree. And second, it ought not to be overlooked that this socalled (Christian) appreciation of marriage did not at all succeed in putting aside the ancient immediately and everywhere.” (2) CALLISTUS. The bishop referred to is Callistus, who was bishop of Rome from 218 to 223. Hippolytus, in his ‘Refutation of all Heresies,’ denounces him as an unmitigated scoundrel. Among other accusations he reproaches him with his opinions and conduct in regard to marriages.[265] “This man,” he says, “issued a decree that, if a bishop was guilty of any sin, if even a sin unto death, he ought not to be deposed. In his time bishops, priests, and deacons, who had been twice married and thrice married, began to be appointed to their orders. If, also, any one who is among the clergy should marry, he decreed that such an one should continue among the clergy as a person who had not sinned.”