Ante-Nicene Fathers. In 10 vols. Volume 06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor Writers

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ANF06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory
Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius
Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor Writers,
Methodius, Arnobius
by
Philip Schaff
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by Philip Schaff
Title: ANF06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus,
Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor Writers,
Methodius, Arnobius
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Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor
Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Table of Contents
About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii
Title Pages.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1
Introductory Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3
Gregory Thaumaturgus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
Title Page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
Introductory Note.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
Acknowledged Writings.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 11
A Declaration of Faith.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 11
A Declaration of Faith.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 11
Elucidation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13
A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14
Chapter I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14
Chapter II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 15
Chapter III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17
Chapter IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 18
Chapter V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 20
Chapter VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 21
Chapter VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 22
Chapter VIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 24
Chapter IX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 25
Chapter X.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 26
Chapter XI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 28
Chapter XII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 28
Canonical Epistle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 30
Canon I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 30
Canon II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 31
Canon III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32
Canon IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32
Canon V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33
Canon VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33
Canon VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33
Canon VIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34
Canon IX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34
Canon X.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34
Canon XI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34
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Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor
Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35
The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 36
For Eight Years Gregory Has Given Up the Practice of Oratory, Being
Busied with the Study Chiefly of Roman Law and the Latin
Language.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 36
He Essays to Speak of the Well-Nigh Divine Endowments of Origen in
His Presence, into Whose Hands He Avows Himself to Have Been Led
in a Way Beyond All His Expectation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 38
He is Stimulated to Speak of Him by the Longing of a Grateful Mind.
To the Utmost of His Ability He Thinks He Ought to Thank Him. From
God are the Beginnings of All Blessings; And to Him Adequate Thanks
Cannot Be Returned.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 40
The Son Alone Knows How to Praise the Father Worthily. In Christ and
by Christ Our Thanksgivings Ought to Be Rendered to the Father.
Gregory Also Gives Thanks to His Guardian Angel, Because He Was
Conducted by Him to Origen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 41
Here Gregory Interweaves the Narrative of His Former Life. His Birth
of Heathen Parents is Stated. In the Fourteenth Year of His Age He
Loses His Father. He is Dedicated to the Study of Eloquence and Law.
By a Wonderful Leading of Providence, He is Brought to Origen.. . . . p. 43
The Arts by Which Origen Studies to Keep Gregory and His Brother
Athenodorus with Him, Although It Was Almost Against Their Will; And
the Love by Which Both are Taken Captive. Of Philosophy, the
Foundation of Piety, with the View of Giving Himself Therefore Wholly
to that Study, Gregory is Willing to Give Up Fatherland, Parents, the
Pursuit of Law, and Every Other Discipline. Of the Soul as the Free
Principle. The Nobler Part Does Not Desire to Be United with the Inferior,
But the Inferior with the Nobler.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 46
The Wonderful Skill with Which Origen Prepares Gregory and
Athenodorus for Philosophy. The Intellect of Each is Exercised First in
Logic, and the Mere Attention to Words is Contemned.. . . . . . . . . . p. 50
Then in Due Succession He Instructs Them in Physics, Geometry, and
Astronomy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52
But He Imbues Their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; And He
Does Not Confine Himself to Discoursing on the Virtues in Word, But
He Rather Confirms His Teaching by His Acts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 53
Hence the Mere Word-Sages are Confuted, Who Say and Yet Act
Not.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 54
Origen is the First and the Only One that Exhorts Gregory to Add to His
Acquirements the Study of Philosophy, and Offers Him in a Certainp. 55
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Manner an Example in Himself. Of Justice, Prudence, Temperance,
and Fortitude. The Maxim, Know Thyself.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gregory Disallows Any Attainment of the Virtues on His Part. Piety is
Both the Beginning and the End, and Thus It is the Parent of All the
Virtues.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 57
The Method Which Origen Used in His Theological and Metaphysical
Instructions. He Commends the Study of All Writers, the Atheistic Alone
Excepted. The Marvellous Power of Persuasion in Speech. The Facility
of the Mind in Giving Its Assent.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 58
Whence the Contentions of Philosophers Have Sprung. Against Those
Who Catch at Everything that Meets Them, and Give It Credence, and
Cling to It. Origen Was in the Habit of Carefully Reading and Explaining
the Books of the Heathen to His Disciples.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60
The Case of Divine Matters. Only God and His Prophets are to Be Heard
in These. The Prophets and Their Auditors are Acted on by the Same
Afflatus. Origen's Excellence in the Interpretation of Scripture.. . . . . p. 62
Gregory Laments His Departure Under a Threefold Comparison;
Likening It to Adam's Departure Out of Paradise. To the Prodigal Son's
Abandonment of His Father's House, and to the Deportation of the Jews
into Babylon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 64
Gregory Consoles Himself.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 66
Peroration, and Apology for the Oration.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 67
Apostrophe to Origen, and Therewith the Leave-Taking, and the Urgent
Utterance of Prayer.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 67
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 68
Dubious or Spurious Writings.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69
A Sectional Confession of Faith.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69
Section I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69
Section II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Section III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Section IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 71
Section V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 72
Section VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 73
Section VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 73
Section VIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 74
Section IX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 75
Section X.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 75
Section XI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 76
Section XII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 77
Section XIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 77
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Section XIV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 78
Section XV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 78
Section XVI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 79
Section XVII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 80
Section XVIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 80
Section XIX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 81
Section XX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 81
Section XXI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 82
Section XXII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 82
Section XXIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 83
A Fragment of the Same Declaration of Faith, Accompanied by
Glosses.--From Gregory Thaumaturgus, as They Say, in His Sectional
Confession of Faith.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 84
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 84
On the Trinity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 85
Fragment from the Discourse.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 85
Elucidation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 88
Twelve Topics on the Faith.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 88
Topic I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 88
Topic II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 89
Topic III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 89
Topic IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 90
Topic V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 90
Topic VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 91
Topic VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 91
Topic VIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 92
Topic IX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 92
Topic X.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 93
Topic XI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 93
Topic XII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 94
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 95
On the Subject of the Soul.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 96
Preface.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 96
Section I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 98
Section II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 98
Section III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 98
Section IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 99
Section V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 100
Section VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 100
Section VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 101
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Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 102
Four Homilies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 103
On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 103
On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary. Discourse Second.. . . . p. 108
On the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 116
On the Holy Theophany, or on Christ's Baptism.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 120
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 126
On All the Saints.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 127
On All the Saints.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 127
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 129
On the Gospel According to Matthew.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 129
Dionysius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 131
Title Page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 131
Introductory Note.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 131
Extant Fragments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 135
Containing Various Sections of the Works.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 135
From the Two Books on the Promises.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 135
From the Books on Nature.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 142
In Opposition to Those of the School of Epicurus Who Deny the
Existence of a Providence, and Refer the Constitution of the Universe
to Atomic Bodies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 142
A Refutation of This Dogma on the Ground of Familiar Human
Analogies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 143
A Refutation on the Ground of the Constitution of the Universe.. . . . p. 145
A Refutation of the Same on the Grounds of the Human
Constitution.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 148
That to Work is Not a Matter of Pain and Weariness to God.. . . . . p. 151
From the Books Against Sabellius. On the Notion that Matter is
Ungenerated.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 154
Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 156
From the First Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 156
From the Same First Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 157
From the Same First Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 157
From the Second Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 158
From the Same Second Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 158
From the Same Second Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 159
From the Third Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 159
From the Fourth Book.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 160
About the Middle of the Treatise.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 160
And Again:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 160
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The Conclusion of the Entire Treatise.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 160
The Epistle to Bishop Basilides.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 161
Canon I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 161
Canon II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 164
Canon III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 165
Canon IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 165
Containing Epistles, or Fragments of Epistles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 165
To Domitius and Didymus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 165
To Novatus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 167
To Fabius, Bishop of Antioch.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 168
To Cornelius the Roman Bishop.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 176
Which is the First on the Subject of Baptism Addressed to Stephen,
Bishop of Rome.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 176
To Sixtus, Bishop.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 178
To Philemon, a Presbyter.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 178
To Dionysius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 180
To Sixtus II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 180
Against Bishop Germanus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 181
To Hermammon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 186
To the Alexandrians.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 190
To Hierax, a Bishop in Egypt.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 192
From His Fourth Festival Epistle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 193
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 194
Exegetical Fragments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 195
A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 195
Chapter I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 195
Chapter II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 196
Chapter III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 200
The Gospel According to Luke. An Interpretation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 201
On Luke XXII. 42, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 206
An Exposition of Luke XXII. 46, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 210
On John VIII. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 211
Of the One Substance.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 212
On the Reception of the Lapsed to Penitence.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 212
Note by the American Editor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 213
Julius Africanus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 214
Title Page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 214
Introductory Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 214
The Epistle to Aristides.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 216
Chapter I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 216
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Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Chapter II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 217
Chapter III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 218
Chapter IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 219
Chapter V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 220
Chapter VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 221
Narrative of Events Happening in Persia on the Birth of Christ.. . . . . . . p. 221
The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius
Africanus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 226
On the Mythical Chronology of the Egyptians and Chaldeans.. . . . . . p. 226
Part II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 227
Part III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 227
On the Deluge.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 228
Part V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 229
Part VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 229
Part VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 229
Of Abraham.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 229
Of Abraham and Lot.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 230
Of the Patriarch Jacob.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 230
Part XI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 231
Part XII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 231
Part XIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 232
Part XIV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 235
Part XV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 235
On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 235
On the Fortunes of Hyrcanus and Antigonus, and on Herod, Augustus,
Antony, and Cleopatra, in Abstract.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 236
On the Circumstances Connected with Our Saviour's Passion and His
Life-Giving Resurrection.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 239
Part XIX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 241
The Passion of St. Symphorosa and Her Seven Sons.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 241
Elucidations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 243
Anatolius and Minor Writers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 246
Title Page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 246
Introductory Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 246
Anatolius of Alexandria.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 247
Translator's Biographical Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 247
The Paschal Canon of Anatolius of Alexandria.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 248
Chapter I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 248
Chapter II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 249
Chapter III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 250
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Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor
Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Chapter IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 251
Chapter V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 251
Chapter VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 251
Chapter VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 252
Chapter VIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 253
Chapter IX.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 253
Chapter X.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 254
Chapter XI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 255
Chapter XII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 255
The moon's age set forth in the Julian Calendar.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 256
The Paschal or Easter Table of Anatolius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 257
Chapter XV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 258
Chapter XVI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 258
Chapter XVII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 259
Fragments of the Books on Arithmetic.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 260
Alexander of Cappadocia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 263
Translator's Biographical Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 263
From the Epistles of Alexander.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 264
An Epistle to the People of Antioch.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 264
From an Epistle to the Antinoites.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 264
From an Epistle to Origen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 265
From an Epistle to Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 265
Note by the American Editor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 265
Theognostus of Alexandria.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 266
Translator's Biographical Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 266
From His Seven Books of Hypotyposes or Outlines.. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 267
Part I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 267
Part II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 267
Part III.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 268
Pierus of Alexandria.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 268
Translator's Biographical Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 268
A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the
Corinthians.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 269
A Section on the Writings of Pierius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 270
Theonas of Alexandria.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 271
Translator's Biographical Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 271
The Epistle of Theonas, Bishop of Alexandria, to Lucianus, the Chief
Chamberlain.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 271
Chapter I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 271
Chapter II.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 272
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