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BOOK IV. CHAPTER L The bishops of Rome and Alexandria, in the reign of Trajan. ABOUT the twelfth year of the reign of Trajan, the bishop of the church of Alexandria, who was mentioned by us a little be fore, departed this life. Primus was the fourth from the apos tles to whom the functions of the office were there allotted. At the same time also, after Euarestus had completed the eighth year as bishop of Rome, he was succeeded in the episcopal office by Alexander, the fifth in the succession from Peter and Paul. CHAPTER II. The calamities of the Jews about this time. BUT the doctrines of our Saviour, and the church flourishing from day to day, continued to receive constant accessions. But the calamities of the Jews also continued to grow with one accumula tion of evil upon another. The emperor was now advancing into the eighteenth year of his reign, and another commotion of the Jews being raised, he destroyed a very great number of them. For in Alexandria and the rest of Egypt, and also in Cyrene, as if actuated by some terrible and tempestuous spirit, they rushed upon seditious measures against the Greeks of the same place. Having increased the insurrection to a great extent, they excited no inconsiderable war the following year, when Lupus was go vernor of all Egypt. And in the first conflict, indeed, it happened that they prevailed over the Greeks ; who, retreating into Alexan dria, took and destroyed the Jews that were found in the city, 128