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186 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. thians, confirming them in peace, and renewing their faith and the doctrine they had lately received from the apostles. After a little, he subjoins : " But this Clement was succeeded by Euarestus, and Euarestus by Alexander. Xystus followed as the sixth from the apostles, after whom was Telesphorus, who also illus triously suffered martyrdom, then came Hyginus, and after him Pius. He was followed by Anicetus, and as he was succeeded by Soter, the twelfth from the apostles in the episcopate now is Eleutherus, in the same order and the same doctrine (or succes sion*) in which the tradition of the apostles in the church and the promulgation of the truth has descended to us." CHAPTER VII. Miracles were performed in itiose times by the believers. THESE accounts are given by Irenaeus in those five books of his, to which he gave the title of " Refutation and Overthrow of False Doctrine." In the second book of the same work, he also shows that even down to his times, instances of divine and mi raculous power were remaining in some churches. " So far are they," says he, " from raising the dead, as the Lord raised, and as the apostles by means of prayer, for even among the brethren frequently in a case of necessity when a whole church united in much fasting and prayer, the spirit has returned to the ex-ani mated body, and the man was granted to the prayers of the saints." And again, he says, after other observations : " But if they say that our Lord also did these things only in appearance, we shall refer them back to the prophetic declarations, and shall show from them that all those things were strictly foretold, and were done by him, and that he alone is the Son of God. Wherefore, also, those that were truly his disciples, receiving grace from him, in his name performed these things for the benefit * The word succession, in the parenthesis, is adopted by Valesius as the correct reading.