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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 203 CHAPTER XIX. The opinion of Serapion respecting the heresy of the Phrygians. SERAPION, who is said about this time to have been the bishop of the church of Antioch, after Maximinus, has also made mention of the writings of Apollinaris against the same heresy. In a pi ivate letter, which he wrote to Caricus and Ponticus, he mentions him, and also refutes his heresy in the following words : " But that you may also see, that the influence of this lying party of a new prophecy, as it is called, is abominated by all the brethren in the world, I have also sent you the epistle of Claudius Apollinaris, that most blessed bishop of Hierapolis in Asia." In this same epistle of Serapion are also given the subscriptions of several bishops. Of whom one wrote as follows : " I, Aurelius Cyrenius, a witness, wish you health." Another, as follows : " Julius Publius Julius, bishop of Debeltum, a colony of Thrace, as sure as God lives in the heavens, the blessed Sotas, in Anchialus, wished to cast out the daemon from Priscilla, and the hypocrites would not suffer him." The signatures of many other bishops who bear witness to the facts, are given in their own hand in this epistle. And such are the statements referring to these. CHAPTER XX. The writings of Irenaus against the schismatics at Rome. BUT Irenaeus composed various epistles in opposition to those that attempted to disfigure the sound institutions of the church at Rome. One addressed to Blastus, On Schism. One to Florinus, On Sovereignty, or on the truth that God is not the author of evil : for the latter appeared to maintain this opinion. On whose ac count, as he was again on the point of being carried away by the Valentinian delusion, Irenaeus also wrote the treatise on the Ogdoad, or the number eight ; in which book he also shows that he 20