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212 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, CHAPTER XXVI. The elegant works of Irenceus that have come down to us. BESIDES the works and epistles of Irenaeus abovementioned there is a certain very brief and most important discourse by hin On Knowledge, against the Greeks ; another also, which he dedi cated to his brother named Marcion, as a proof of the apostolic preaching ; a book also of various disputes, in which he mention* the Epistle to the Hebrews ; and the book called the Wisdom oi Solomon, quoting certain passages from them. These are tht works of Irenaeus that have come down to us. But after Cornmodus had ended his reign in the thirteenth year, and Pertinas had held the government not quite six months, Severus was created emperor, and ruled the state. CHAPTER XXVII. The works of others that flourished at the time. NUMEROUS works, indeed, of ancient ecclesiastical writers are still preserved by many, the monuments of a virtuous industry, Those which we would select of them, might be the commenta ries of Heraclitus On the Apostle ; the works of Maximus, also, on that question so much agitated among the heretics, The Origin of Evil; also, On the Creation of Matter. Also, the works of Candidus On the Hexaemeron.* And Apion's work on the same subject. Sextus, also, On the Resurrection, and a certain othei treatise of Arabianus, with many others, of whom, as we have no data, we can neither insert the times nor any extracts in our history. Innumerable others there also are, that have come down to us, even the names of whom it would be impossible to give. All of these were orthodox and ecclesiastical writers as * The Greek name, desiccating the six davs of the creation.