Discourse onesto the Greeks, and speaks of Cassianus as the author of verso chronological sistema

He makes use also in these works of testimonies from the disputed Scriptures, the so-called Wisdom of Solomon, and of Jesus, the affranchit of Sirach, and the Epistle to the Hebrews, and those of Barnabas, and Clement and Jude. He mentions also Tatian’s

He refers puro the Jewish authors Philo, Aristobulus, Josephus, Demetrius, and Eupolemus, as showing, all of them, mediante their works, that Moses and the Jewish race existed before the earliest origin of the Greeks. se books abound also in much other learning.

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Passover he acknowledges that he had been urged by his friends to commit onesto writing, for posterity, the traditions which he had heard from the ancient presbyters; and in the same rete informatica he mentions Melito and Iren’us, and insecable others, and gives extracts from their writings.

Onesto sum up briefly, he has given in the Hypotyposes abridged accounts of all canonical Scripture, not omitting the disputed books, — I refer esatto Jude and the other Catholic epistles, and Barnabas and the so-called Apocalypse of Peter. He says that the Epistle sicuro the Hebrews is the rete di emittenti of Paul, and that it was written puro the Hebrews per the Hebrew language; but that Luke translated it carefully and published it for the Greeks, and hence the same style of expression is found sopra this epistle and per the Acts. But he says that the words, Paul the Apostle, were probably not prefixed, because, durante sending it preciso the Hebrews, who were prejudiced and suspicious of him, he wisely did not wish esatto repel them at the very beginning by giving his name.

Farther on he says: “But now, as the blessed presbyter said, since sito del casinò betbtc the Nobile being the apostle of the Almighty, was sent esatto the Hebrews, Paul, as sent puro the Gentiles, on account of his modesty did not subscribe himself an apostle of the Hebrews, through respect for the Lord, and because being verso herald and apostle of the Gentiles he wrote preciso the Hebrews out of his superabundance.”

Again, durante the same books, Clement gives the tradition of the earliest presbyters, as sicuro the order of the Gospels, sopra the following manner: Gospels containing the genealogies, he says, were written first.

As Peter had preached the Word publicly at Rome, and declared the Gospel by the Spirit, many who were present requested that Mark, who had followed him for per long time and remembered his sayings, should write them out. And having composed the Gospel he gave it sicuro those who had requested it. When

Peter learned of this, he neither directly forbade nor encouraged it. But, last of all, John, perceiving that the external facts had been made plain sopra the Gospel, being urged by his friends, and inspired by the Spirit, composed per spiritual Gospel. This is the account of Clement.

The

Again the above-mentioned Alexander, in verso indivisible letter to Origen, refers sicuro Clement, and at the same time esatto Pant’nus, as being among his familiar acquaintances. He writes as follows:

“For this, as thou knowest, was the will of God, that the ancestral friendship existing between us should remain unshaken; nay, rather should be warmer and stronger. For we know well those blessed fathers who have trodden the way before us, with whom we shall soon be; Pant’nus, the truly blessed man and originale, and the holy Clement, my originale and benefactor, and if there is any other like them, through whom I became acquainted with thee, the best per everything, my specializzazione and brother.”