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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 191 CHAPTER XL Clement of Alexandria. AT this time, also, flourished Clement, at Alexandria, of the same name with him who anciently presided over the church of Rome, and who was a disciple of the apostles. This Clement was devoted to the study of the same Scriptures with Pantaenus, and in his Institutions expressly mentions the latter by name as his teacher. He also appears to me to designate this same one in the first book of his Stromata, when he points out the most distin guished of the apostolic succession, which he had received from tradition, in the following words : " These books," says he, " were not fabricated as a work of ostentation, but they are treasured up by me as a kind of commentaries for my old age, and an anti dote to forgetfulness, as a natural image and sketch of those efficacious and inspired doctrines which I was honoured to have rom those blessed and truly excellent men. Of these, the one was lonicus in Greece, but the other in Magna Gnecia ; the one of them being a Syrian, the other a native of Egypt. Others, lowcver, there were, living in the east ; and of these, one was rom Assyria, another of Palestine, a Hebrew by descent. The ast that I met with was the first in excellence. Him I foiind concealed in Egypt; and, meeting him there, I ceased to extend my search beyond him, as one who had no superior in abilities. These, indeed, preserved the true tradition of the salutary doc-, rine, which, as given by Peter and James, John and Paul, had) lescended from father to son. Though there are few like their athers, they have, by the favour of God, also come down to us o plant that ancient and apostolic seed likewise in our minds." 19