[327:3] Euseb. vii. 22.

[328:1] Athanasius, “Hist.  Arian. ad Monachos,” Sec. 64.

[329:1] Luke xxii. 24-26.

[329:2] Rom. i. 8, 13.

[330:1] Gal. ii. 7-9.

[330:2] Rom. xvi. 3-15.

[330:3] Acts ii. 10.

[330:4] Euseb. ii. 22.

[330:5] Period 1. sec. i. chap. x.

[331:1] Hegesippus seems to have been the first who attempted to draw up a list of the bishops, or presiding presbyters of Rome.  See Pearson’s Criticism on Euseb. iv. 22, in his “Minor Works,” vol. ii. p. 319, Oxford, 1844; and Routh’s “Reliquiae,” i. pp. 270, 271.

[331:2] Thus, Irenaeus (i. 27) speaks of Hyginus as the ninth, and again (iii. 3), as the eighth in succession from the apostles.

[331:3] Thus, Irenaeus affirms (iii. 3) that Linus was the immediate successor of the apostles, whilst Tertullian, who was his contemporary, and who possessed equally good means of information, assigns that position to Clement.  “De Praescrip.  Haeret.” c. 32.

[331:4] Euseb. iii. 4.

[332:1] Irenaeus, “Contra Om.  Haer.” iii. 3, Sec. 3.  Bunsen has justly remarked that, “with Telesphorus the most obscure period of the Roman Church terminates.”—­Hippolytus, iv. pp. 209, 210.

[332:2] Irenaeus, iii. 4, Sec. 3.

[332:3] This name continued to be given to the Roman bishop until at least the close of the second century.  See Irenaeus quoted in Euseb. v. 24.

[332:4] [Greek:  katholikos].  See this subject more fully illustrated in Period II. sec. iii. chap. viii.

[333:1] “Qui absistunt a principali successione, et quocunque loco colligunt, suspectos habere (oportet) vel quasi haereticos et malae sententiae; vel quasi scindentes et elatos et sibi placentes; aut rursus ut hypocritas, quaestus gratia et vanae gloriae hoc operantes.”  Irenaeus, iv. 26, Sec. 2.

[333:2] See Period II. sec. iii. chap. vii.

[333:3] Blondel’s “Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi,” p. 18.  Under ordinary circumstances the new president, or bishop, was often elected before his predecessor was buried.  See Bingham, book ii. c. xi.  Sec. 2.

[333:4] See Pearson’s “Minor Works,” ii. 520.

[333:5] This method of appointment continued to be observed long afterwards in some parts of the Church.  See Bingham, book iv. chap. i. sec. i.  At Alexandria in the beginning of the fourth century the presbyters selected three of their senior members, of whom the people chose one.  Cotelerius, ii., app. p. 180.

[334:1] [Greek:  Ton tes episkopes kleron].  “Irenaeus,” ed.  Stieren, i. p. 433.

[334:2] The Paschal feast.  Irenaeus admits that this point formed only a subordinate topic of discussion.  See Stieren’s “Irenaeus,” i. p. 826, note 6.

[334:3] See Period II. sec. iii. chap. vii.

[334:4] Euseb. iv. 14.

[335:1] Cyprian speaks of sending messengers to Rome “to ascertain and report as to any rescript published respecting” the Christians.  “Epist. ad Successum.”  The Roman clergy could at once supply the information.