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116 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. calling and return to her country, and that he cried to her in a consolatory and encouraging voice, addressing her by name: " Oh thou, remember the Lord !" Such was the marriage of these blessed ones, and such was their perfect affection towards their dearest friends, and this account we have given in its proper place, as well adapted to the subject. CHAPTER XXXI. The death of John and Philip. THE time and manner of the death of Paul and Peter, and also the place where their bodies were interred after their de parture from this life, has already been stated by us. The time when John died, has also, in some measure, been mentioned, but the place of his burial is shown from the epistle of Pojycrates, who was bishop of the church of Ephesus, which epistle he wrote to Victor, bishop of Rome, and at the same time makes mention of him (John) and the apostle Philip, and his daughters, thus : " For in Asia, also, mighty luminaries have fallen asleep, which shall rise again at the last day, at the appearance of the Lord, when he shall come with glory from heaven, and shall gather again all the saints. Philip. onje_ojf_yietwdyea^ostles who sleeps in Hierapolis, and his two aged virgin daughters. Another of his daugh ters, who lived in the holy Spirit, rests at Ephesus. Moreover, I John, that rested on the bosom of our Lord, who was a priest \that bore the sacerdotal plate, and martyr and teacher, he, also, /rests at Ephesus." This may suffice as to their death ; and in the dialogue of Caius, which we mentioned a little before, Proclus, against whom he wrote his disputation, coinciding with what we have already advanced concerning the death of Philip and his daughters, speaks thus : " After this there were four prophetesses the daughters of Philip at Hierapolis in Asia, whose tomb, and that of their father, are to be seen there." Such is his statement. But Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, mentions the daughters of Philip, tarrying in Cesarea of Judea, and as endued with the gift