on, who appeared towards the close of the
first century. "Jam tunc haereticorum semina pullularent Cerinthi,
Ebionis, et caeterorum qui negant Christum in carne venisse, quos et
ipse in Epistola sua Antichristos vocat."--_Proleg. in Comment, super
Matthaeum_.

[528:1] 2 John 1.

[528:2] 3 John 1.

[528:3] Epist. ci. "Ad Evangelum."

[528:4] Period II. sec. iii. chap. 5. p. 500.

[528:5] Sec. 1.

[528:6] The reader may find the quotations in the preceding chapter, pp.
501, 502.

[528:7] Thus Milner says that "so far as one may judge by Clement's
Epistle," the Church of Corinth, when the letter was written, had Church
governors "_only of two ranks_," presbyters and deacons.--_Hist. of the
Church_, cent. ii. chap. 1.

[528:8] As the letter supplies no trace whatever of the existence of a
bishop in the Church to which it is addressed, Pearson is sadly puzzled
by its testimony, and gravely advances the supposition that _the bishop
of Philippi must have been dead_ when Polycarp wrote! "Vindiciae
Ignatianae," pars ii. cap. 13. Rothe is equally perplexed by the Epistle
of Clement. He says that "in the whole Epistle there is never any
reference to a bishop of the Corinthian community," and he admits that,
when the letter was written, "the Corinthian community had no bishop at
all;" but, to support his favourite theory, he contends, like Pearson,
that the bishop of Corinth must also have been dead! "Die Anfange der
Christlichen Kirche," pp. 403, 404. Strange that the bishop of Corinth
and the bishop of Philippi both happened to be dead at the only time
that their existence would have been of any historical value, and that
_no reference_ is made either to them or their successors!

[529:1] See Euseb. iv. c. 11.

[529:2] Euseb. in. 32, and iv. 22.

[529:3] Euseb. iii. 32. It was probably immediately after the election
of Marcus, as bishop of Jerusalem, that Thebuthis became a heretic. See
Euseb. iv. 22. About that time the sect of the Nazarenes originated.

[530:1] Origen, "Contra Celsum," iii. Sec. 10, Opera, i. 453, 454.

[530:2] "Dialogue with Trypho," Opera, p. 253.

[530:3] "Contra Haeres." i. 27, Sec. 1.

[530:4] "Strom." p. 764.

[530:5] Epist. lxxiv. Opera, p. 293. The ancient writers speak of all
the early schismatics as heretics. Thus Novatian, though sound in the
faith, is so described. Cyprian, Epist. lxxvi. p. 315. When, therefore,
Jerome speaks of the early schismatics he obviously refers to the