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4- Melito Bistiop of Sardis , An. 170.

| He was famous for the Canon of the Old Testa-*j ment collected by him, and presiding over one ofI the seven Churches, to whom the Revelations wasI directed, he certainly knew the 'Tradition aboutj the Author of that Book up to its Original. Hei wrote a Tract ’ATroxctXtyeus ’luolwx con-

cerning the Revelations of St. John, which wasprobably a Commentary upon it; and ’tis mostlikely he meant John the Apostle: For had heI meant the other John, he would have added the| Prejbyter by way of Distinction, as Papias , Dio-i nyjius Alexandrinus and others do when they speak1 of him. This Tract is lost; butboxh. Eujebius *j and -f- Jerom insert it in the Catalogue of Melito’s1 Works.

5. Tbeophilus, Bistiop of Antioch , An. 16S.i This learned Father opposed the Heresy ofHermogenes (as Eufebius informs us I. 4. c. 24.)

1 with Testimonies from the Revelations , which| Ihows that he thought it Canonical.

6 . Clemens Alexandrinus , An. 192.

This most learned Person having cited a Pasiage! from the Revelations , Strom. 1 . 6 . p. 793. Ed. Oxon.

\ adds us Cr^criv cv t\i ’ludvvr^. He does

1 not indeed expressly call him John the Apojlle ;

no more than he does when he cites from his first1 Epistle, generally calling him at such Timesbarely John J. From whence it seems plain, that! Clemens knew of no sacred-Writer of this Name,

! save the Apojlle, and consequently thought him

* Hist. Eccl. I.4. c. 26. + Lib de Viris illustr.

f See Pædag. 1. z. c. n. & c. 13. Strom. 1. 2, p. 464. 1. z.P- ;r;.

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