from Alexandria to Rome, and
afterwards settled in Cyprus. Marcion, who was originally connected with
Pontus, and who taught in Rome, is said to have also travelled in Egypt
and the East.

[545:1] "Blondelli Apologia pro Sententia Hieronymi," p. 18. Blondel
makes the vacancy of four years' continuance.

[545:2] Pearson's "Minor Works," ii. p. 571.

[546:1] Epiphanius, "Haeres." 42, Opera, tom. i. p. 302.

[546:2] See Burton's "Lectures," ii. 98.

[546:3] "Speraverat episcopatum Valentinus, quia et ingenio poterat et
eloquio. Sed alium ex martyrii praerogativa loci potitum indignatus de
ecclesia authenticae regulae abrupit."--_Adv. Valent._ c. iv.

[546:4] Tertullian states that Valentine at first believed the doctrine
of the Catholics _in the Church of Rome_. "Be Praescrip." c. 30. When he
came to the city he was admitted to communion. He set up a distinct sect
after Pius was made bishop. It is impossible, therefore, to avoid the
inference that he was mortified because he was not himself chosen.
Tertullian here confounds Eleutherius and Hyginus.

[547:1] The unwillingness even of Tertullian to say anything to its
prejudice has been often remarked. See Neander on a passage in the tract
"De Virg. Veland." in his "Antignostikos," appended to his "History of
the Planting and Training of the Christian Church," in Bohn's edition,
ii. 420. See also the same, p. 429. See also "De Pudicitia," c. 1.

[547:2] They are quoted as genuine by Binius, Baronius, Bona, Thorndike,
Bingham, Salmasius, and many others. Bishop Beveridge speaks of one of
them as of undoubted authority. "In _indubitata_ illius
epistola."--_Annot. in Can. Ap._ See Cotelerius, i. 459. Pearson rejects
them as spurious, whilst contending so valiantly for the Ignatian
Epistles.

[547:3] Such as _Missa_ and _Titulus_. But that Pastor really did erect
a place in which the Christians assembled for worship, as stated in one
of these letters, is not improbable. See Routh's "Reliquiae," i. 430.
Pearson objects to them on the ground that Eleutherius is spoken of in
one of them as a _presbyter_, whereas Hegesippus describes him as
_deacon_ afterwards in the time of Anicetus. See Euseb. iv. 22. But it
is not clear that Hegesippus here uses the word deacon in its strictly
technical sense. He may mean by it _minister_ or _manager_, and may
design to indicate that Eleutherius was the most _prominent official
personage_ under Anicetus, occupying the position afterwar