,
it will be nearly as seven to fourteen.

[539:3] In the verses erroneously attributed to Tertullian, the Church
of Rome is represented as in a flourishing state when visited by Cerdo.

"Advenit Romam Cerdo, nova vulnera gestans
Detectus, quoniam voces et verba veneni
Spargebat furtim; quapropter ab agmine pulsus,
Sacrilegum genus hoc genuit spirante dracone.
Constabat pietate vigens Ecclesia Romae
Composita a Petro, cujus successor et ipse
Jamque loco nono cathedram suscepit Hyginus."

[540:1] Euseb. iv. 11. Irenaeus says that Valentine, the most famous and
formidable of the Gnostic teachers, "came to Rome under Hyginus, was in
his prime under Pius, and lived until the time of Anicetus."--_Contra
Haeres._, iii. 4. Sec. 3. Cyprian speaks of "the more _grievous pestilences
of heresy breaking forth_ when Marcion the Pontian emerged from Pontus,
whose master Cerdo came to Rome _during the episcopate of
Hyginus_."--_Epist_. lxxiv. He adds--"But it is acknowledged that
heresies _afterwards became more numerous and worse_."--_Epist_. lxxiv.
Opera, pp. 293, 294.

[540:2] Euseb. iv. 11. See also a fragment attributed to Irenaeus in
Stieren's edition, i. 938.

[540:3] See Mosheim, "Commentaries," by Vidal, ii. 266.

[541:1] Hieronymus, "Comment, in Titum."

[541:2] Ibid.

[541:3] "Tamen postquam in omnibus locis ecclesiae sunt constitutae, et
officia ordinata, aliter composita res est, quam coeperat."--_Comment.
in Epist. ad Ephes._ cap. 4.

[541:4] "Ideo non per omnia conveniunt scripta apostoli ordinationi,
quae nunc in ecclesia est; quia haec _inter ipsa primordia_ sunt
scripta."--Ibid.

[541:5] "Ut non ordo, sed meritum crearet episcopum."--_Ibid._ Hilary
appears to have believed with Jerome that the Church was originally
governed "by the common council of the presbyters," but that, meanwhile,
_with their sanction_, or under peculiar circumstances, deacons might
preach and even laymen baptize. Such, too, seems to have been the
opinion of Tertullian. See Kaye's "Tertullian," pp. 226, 448. Hilary,
however, maintained that this arrangement was soon abrogated. "Coepit
alio ordine et providentia gubernari ecclesia; quia si omnes eadem
possent, irrationabile esset, et vulgaris res, et vilissima videretur."

[543:1] Irenaeus, iii. 3, Sec. 3.

[544:1] See Period II. sec. 1. chap. iv. pp. 334-336.

[544:2] Irenaeus, i. 24, Sec. 1; i. 28, Sec. 1.

[544:3] Thus, Valentine travelled