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192 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. CHAPTER XII. The bishops of Jerusalem. AT this time also, Narcissus, who is celebrated among manj even at this day, was noted as bishop of Jerusalem, being the fifteenth in succession since the invasion of the Jews under Ha drian. Since this event, we have shown that the church there consisted of Gentiles after those of the circumcision, and thai Marcus was the first bishop of the Gentiles that presided there, After him, Cassianus held the episcopal office ; after him followed Publius, then Maximus; these were followed by Julian, ther Caius ; after him Symmachus, and another Caius ; and then an other Julian, who was followed by Capito, and Valens and Dolichianus. Last of all Narcissus, the thirtieth in regular succession from the apostles. CHAPTER XIII. Of Rhodo, and the dissension occasioned by Marcion, which he records. ABOUT this time, also, Rhodo, a native of Asia, being instructed, as himself says, by Tatian, with whom we have already become acquainted, and having written various other books, among the rest, also combatted the heresy of Marcion. This, he says, was split into various opinions in his time ; and describing those that occasioned the decision, he also accurately refutes the perverse doctrines devised by each of them. Hear him in his own words: " Hence," says he, " they are also divided among themselves, as they maintain a doctrine that cannot stand. For from this herd arose Apelles, who, assuming a gravity of deportment, and presuming upon his age, professed to believe but one principle, and that the prophetic declarations proceeded from an adverse