flourished but twelve Years after the Apocalypsewas committed to Writing, asserted it to be a di-vine Book, as we learn from Andreas Cœsarienfis,in the Preface to his Commentary on the Revela-tions.
This celebrated Writer, in a Dispute held withrypho the Jew , at EpheJ'us the Fountain-head oftradition in the present Case, expressly testifies,that John the Apostle was Author of the Revela-tions : " A certain Man among us, fays he, whose« Name is John, one of Christ’s Apostles, hasforetold in the Revelation made to him, that" such as believe in our Chrijl, shall spend a thou-* c sand Years in Jerusalem *.
3. Irenœus, Anno 167. or according to someAn. 187.
This most eminent Bishop , who had been aHearer of Polycarp-f, St. John's Disciple, whohad conversed with some that had seen the Apo-stle, about a Passage in the Revelations J, andwho speaks of the Apocalyptick Visions, as seenbut a little before his own Time ||, declares thatJohn who saw them was he who leaned on ourLord’s Breast at Supper, i. e. John the Apostle.
* n as iu~iv «»!L r/f, tii oitfix ’!««»»?/, «'f T A xcsoXai § Xgfficm ’AxotttXtav-ni, xlhix trv zrtur.THi cm Tt/5
to? inflict? Xesrtjt =r/r<< ■ 3 r^t<p>frts\jTS. Justin . Dial. cum3'ryph.
f Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 1 . 5. c. ic.
X Iren. I. 5. c. 30. & Euseb. Hist. Eccl. I. 5. c. 8.
|| Ibid. Iren. I. 4. c. 57. Joanne vero non sustinente Visio-
nem-vivificans eum verbum & adraonens, quoniam ipse est
in cujus Pectore recumbebat ad Cœnam, ike.
4. Melita