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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 101 CHAPTER XVI. The Epistle of Clement OF this Clement there is one epistle extant, acknowledged as genuine, of considerable length" ahcT oFgreat~~merit, which he wrote in the name of the church at Rome, to that of Corinth, at the time when there was a dissension in the latter. This we know to have been publicly read for common benefit, in most of the churches, both in former times and in our own ; and that at the time mentioned a sedition did take place at Corinth, is abund antly attested by Hegesippus. CHAPTER XVII. The persecution of the Christians under Domitian. DOMITIAN, indeed, having exercised his cruelty against many, and unjustly slain no small number of noble and illustrious men at Rome, and having, without cause, punished vast numbers of honourable men with exile and the confiscation of their property, at length established himself as the successor of Nero, in his hatred and hostility to God. He was the second that raised a persecution against us, although his father Vespasian had attempt ed nothing to our prejudice. CHAPTER XVIII. Of John the Apostle, and the Revelation. IN this persecution, it is handed down by tradition, that the apostle and evangelist John, who was yet living, in consequence of his testimony to the divine word, was condemned to dwell on the island of Patmos. Irenaeus, indeed, in his fifth book against the heresies, where he speaks of the calculation formed on the