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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 225 Lord, was beheaded. Many others, also, of those at Alexandria, are recorded as having promptly attached themselves to the doc trine of Christ in these times ; and this by reason of Potamiaena, who appeared in dreams, and exhorted many to embrace the di vine word. But of these let this suffice. CHAPTER VI. Clement of Alexandria* CLEMENT having succeeded Pantaenus in the office of elemen tary instruction, had charge of it until this time ; so that Ongen, whilst yet a boy, was one of his pupils. Clement, in the first book of the work that he wrote, called Stromata, gives us a chronolo gical deduction of events down to the death of Commodus. So that it is evident these works were written in the reign of Severus, whose times we are now recording. CHAPTER VII. The historian Judas. AT this time, also, another historian, discoursing on the seventy weeks of Daniel, extends his chronology down to the tenth year of the reign of Severus, who also thought that the appearance of antichrist, so much in the mouths of men, was now fully at hand. So mightily did the agitation of persecution, then prevail ing, shake the minds of many. 2F