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162 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. CHAPTER XXVI. Of Melito, and the circumstances he records. IN these times, also flourished Melito, bishop of the church in Sardis, and Apollinaris, the bishop of Hierapolis. Each of these separately addressed discourses as apologies for the faith, to the existing emperor of the Romans, already mentioned. Of. these, those that follow below, are those that have come to our know ledge. Of Melito, two works On the Passover, and those, On the Conduct of Life, and the Prophets. One, On the Church, and ano ther discourse, On the Lord's-day. One, also, On the Nature of Man, and another On his Formation. A work On the Subjection of the Senses to Faith. Besides these, a treatise On the Soul, the Body, and the Mind. A dissertation also, On Baptism ; one also, on Truth, and Faith, and the Generation of Christ. His discourse On Prophecy, and that On Hospitality. A treatise called The Key, his works On the Devil, and The Revelation of John. The treatise On the Incarnate God. And last of all, the discourse addressed to Antonine. In the work on the passover, he shows the time in which he wrote it, beginning with these words : " When Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, says he, at which time Sagaris suffered martyrdom, there was much discussion in Laodicea, respecting the passover, which occurred at that time in its proper season, and in which, also, these works were written." This work is also mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, in his own work on the passover, which, he says, he wrote on occasion of Melito's work. But in the book addressed to the emperor, he relates the following transactions against those of our faith, under this emperor. " What, indeed, says he, never before happened, the race of the pious is now persecuted, driven about in Asia, by new and strange decrees. For the shameless informers, and those that crave the property of others, taking occasion from the edicts of the emperors, openly perpetrate robbery ; night and day plundering those who are guilty of no crime." And afterwards he says, " and if these things are done by your orders let them be