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Side of this Question, and for the Canonical Au-thority of that Book, we have the following <T ?-Jlimonies in the fame Age.

1. Hippolytus, An. 220. or according to some.

An. 240.

An Inscription was dug up at Rome , the Agebefore the last, containing a Catalogue of Hippo-lytus s Writings, and among the rest one with thisTitle. Ted if xj" ’I uuvvyg E uxyseXix x, 'Kttq-

xccXvipeug*, i. e. A Tract in Defence of the Go-spel and Revelation of John . This Dr. Millsthinks to have been a Vindication of those Booksagainst the Hereticks of that Age. But whethera Defence of or a -J- Commentary upon the Revela-tions is here meant, ’tis plain that Hippolytusthought the Gospel of St. John and the Revela-tions had the same Author: Which is all that ourPurpose requires.

2. Origen , Anno 230. according to Cave, or as

others, An. 249.

This most learned Father declares, that Johnthe Evangelist was Author of the Revelations,Com. in Joan. p. g. and again p. 50. FartherCom m Joan. p. 14. and in Mat p. 417. he faysthat John , the Son of Zebedee , wrote the Revela-tions Again in his Catalogue of Scriptures (ap.Euj’eb. Hiji. Eccl. I. 6. c. 25.) after having toldus, that John wrote a Gospel, he adds, he wrotealso the Revelations. And whilst he declares thusabsolutely for the GenuineneJ’s of the Revelations,he freely owns that the second and third Epistles

* See Cave's Hi/ioria liter aria, p. 6q

f St .Jerom, in his Catalogue of Writers, mentions this s-meng Bippslytus's other Commentaries on sacred i3ooks. . .

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