gham, i. 204.

[517:1] Bunsen dates it about A.D. 200. "Hippolytus and his Age," p.
114. The recently discovered treatise of Hippolytus against all heresies
shews that Noetus must have appeared much earlier than most modern
ecclesiastical historians have reckoned.

[517:2] Routh, "Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula," tom. i. pp. 49,
50. Oxon, 1858. This extract proves that the Church of Smyrna continued
under presbyterial government long after the time of Polycarp. Other
Churches about this time were in the same position. See Eusebius, v. 16.

[518:1] During the Paschal controversy the Churches of Jerusalem,
Caesarea, and others sided with Rome, and then probably adopted her
ecclesiastical regimen. It had, perhaps, been generally adopted in Asia
Minor during the Montanist agitation.

[518:2] Chapter vii. of this section.

[519:1] The word _catholic_ came now into use. The minister of the Word
was called a _priest_, and the communion table, an _altar_.

[519:2] Euseb. v. 12.

[519:3] Euseb. vi. 10. The word [Greek: cheirotonian] here employed is
indicative of a popular choice. See also the "Chronicon" of Eusebius.

[519:4] Muenter's "Primordia Eccles. Afric.," pp. 25, 26.

[520:1] Acts x. 1, 45-48; xxi. 8.

[520:2] "Hist." v. 22.

[520:3] "Hist." v. 23; v. 25; vi. 19; vi. 23; vi. 46; vii. 14, &c, &c.

[520:4] "Annal." p. 332.

[520:5] See Lardner's Works, vii. 99. Edit. London, 1838.

[521:1] Eusebius, vi. 26. Towards the close of his episcopate Demetrius
held several synods in Alexandria, at which a considerable number of
bishops were present.

[523:1] It would appear that the "Ecclesiastical History" of Eusebius
was published shortly after Constantine first publicly recognized
Christianity. That event took place in A.D. 324, and with that year the
history terminates.

[523:2] "Vita Malchi," Opera, iv. pp. 90, 91. Edit. Paris, 1706.

[524:1] "Antequam _Diaboli instinctu_, studia in religione fierent, et
diceretur in populis, Ego sum Pauli, ego Apollo, ego autem Cephae,
communi presbyterorum consilio ecclesiae gubernabantur. Postquam vero
unusquisque eos quos baptizaverat suos putabat esse, non Christi, in
toto orbe decretum est, ut unus de presbyteris, electus superponeretur
caeteris, ad quem omnis ecclesiae cura pertineret, et _schismatum semina
tollerentur_."--_Comment. in Titum._ The language here used bears a
strong resemblance to that employed by Lactantius long before when
treating of the sa