[336:1] Extract of a letter from Dionysius of Corinth, preserved in Eusebius, iv. 23.

[336:2] The testimonies to this fact may be found discussed in Minter’s “Primordia Eccelesiae Africanae,” p. 10.  Herodian, who flourished in the third century, speaks of Carthage as the next city after Rome in size and wealth.  Lib. vii. 6.

[336:3] In this way we may readily account for various statements in Tertullian and Cyprian.

[337:1] We here see how a father who wrote so soon after the apostolic age, blunders egregiously respecting the history of the Apostolic Church.

[337:2] So I understand “his qui sunt undique.”  See Wordsworth’s “Hippolytus,” p. 200.  We have thus a remarkable proof that the word catholic was not in use when Irenaeus wrote, for he here expresses the idea by a circumlocution.

[337:3] “Propter potentiorem principalitatem.”

[337:4] Irenaeus iii. 3.  See on this passage Gieseler, by Cunningham, i. 97, note.  See also Period II. sec. iii. chap. viii.

[337:5] The circular letter relating to the martyrdom of Polycarp quoted in Euseb. iv. 15.  It was probably written a considerable time after the death of the martyr, as it speaks of the way in which his memory was cherished when it was drawn up.  Sec. 19.  As it uses the word catholic it must have been written after the appearance of the work of Irenaeus.

[337:6] Irenaeus quoted in Euseb. v. 24.  See Period II. sec. iii. chap. viii.

[339:1] We have an extract from them in Euseb. v. 4.

[339:2] Period II. sec. i. chap. ii. p. 296.

[339:3] Hippolytus, “Refut.  Om.  Haeres.” book ix.

[340:1] This probably occurred early in the reign of Septimius Severus, who at first is said to have been very favourable to the Church.  Shortly before, many in Rome of great wealth and eminent station had become Christians.—­Euseb. v. c. 21.

[340:2] See a more minute account of this controversy in Period II. sec. iii. chap. xii.

[340:3] This is evident from the fact that Hippolytus is scarcely willing to recognise some of the Roman bishops, his contemporaries.  But meanwhile both parties probably belonged to the same synod.  Hippolytus seems to have been the leader of a formidable opposition.

[341:1] Matt. xvi. 18.

[341:2] See the Muratorian fragment in Bunsen’s “Analecta Ante-Nicaena,” i. 154, 155.  This, according to Bunsen, is a fragment of a work of Hegesippus, and written about A.D. 165.  Hippolytus, i. 314.

[341:3] “Hermae Pastor,” lib. iii. simil. ix.  Sec. 12-14.  “Petra haec....  Filius Dei est....  Quid est deinde haec turris?  Haec, inquit, ecclesia est....  Demonstra mihi quare non in terra aedificatur haec turris, sed supra petram.”