[341:4] Tertullian, “De Praescrip.” xxii.  “Latuit aliquid Petrum aedificandae ecclesiae petram dictum?” Tertullian here speaks of the doctrine as already current.  Even after he became a Montanist, he still adhered to the same interpretation—­“Petrum solum invenio maritum, per socrum; monogamum praesumo per ecclesiam, quae super illum, aedificata omnem gradum ordinis sui de monogamis erat collocatura.”—­De Monogamia, c. viii.  Again, in another Montanist tract, he says—­“Qualis es, evertens atque commutans manifestam domini intentionem personaliter hoc Petro conferentem? Super te, inquit, aedificabo ecclesiam meam.”—­De Pudicitia, c. xxi.  See also “De Praescrip.” c. xxii.  According to Origen every believer, as well as Peter, is the foundation of the Church.  “Contra Celsum,” vi. 77.  See also “Comment in Matthaeum xii.,” Opera, tom. iii. p. 524, 526.

[342:1] See this subject more fully explained in Period II. sec. iii. ch. viii.

[343:1] Even the letters of Victor, which created such a sensation throughout the Church, are not forthcoming.  See Pearson’s “Vindiciae Ignatianae,” pars 2, cap. 13, as to the spuriousness of those imputed to him.

[343:2] They extend from Clement, who, according to some lists, was the first Pope, to Syricius, who was made Bishop of Rome A.D. 384.  All candid writers, whether Romanists or Protestants, now acknowledge them to be forgeries.  They may be found in “Binii Concilia.”  They made their appearance, for the first time, about the eighth century.

[344:1] This is the date assigned to its erection by Bunsen, but Dr Wordsworth argues that it was erected earlier.

[344:2] 22d August.

[345:1] The first edition appeared at Oxford in 1851, exactly three hundred years after the discovery of the statue.

[345:2] This point has been fully established by Bunsen and Wordsworth.

[345:3] This is expressly stated by Tertullian, “Adversus Praxeam,” c. i.

[345:4] See Bower’s “History of the Popes.”  Victor, 13th Bishop.

[345:5] According to the commonly received chronology, Victor occupied the papal chair from A.D. 192 to A.D. 201; Zephyrinus from A.D. 201 to A.D. 219; and Callistus from A.D. 219 to A.D. 223.

[346:1] [Greek:  andros idiotu kai aischrokerdous].

[346:2] [Greek:  apeiron ton ekklesiakon horon].

[346:3] “Philosophumena,” book ix.

[348:1] “Philosophumena,” book ix.

[348:2] 14th October.

[348:3] “Philosophumena,” book i., prooemium.

[348:4] [Greek:  dedoikos eme].

[348:5] Bunsen describes Hippolytus as “a member of the Roman presbytery” ("Hippolytus,” i. 313), but he is here evidently mistaken.  Hippolytus was at the head of a presbytery of his own, the presbytery of Portus.  The presbytery of Rome was confined to the elders or presbyters of that city.  The presbyter Hippolytus mentioned by some ancient writers seems to have been a quite different person from the bishop of Portus.