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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 233 point of history, in which he presents materials of great variety of learning. With all these he intermixes the opinions of phi losophers; whence, in all probability, he took the title Stromata, as corresponding to the materials (of his book.) In these he also makes use of testimony from the Antilegomenoi, the disputed Scriptures ; also from that book called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that of Jesus the son of Sirach ; also the Epistle to the He brews, that of Barnabas, and Clement, and Jude. He mentions also the work of Tatian against the Greeks ; Cassian, also, who wrote a history of the times in chronological order. Moreover, he mentions the Jewish authors Philo, and Aristobulus, Josephus, and Demetrius, and Eupolemus, as all of these in their works prove, that Moses and the Jewish nation are much older than the earliest origin of the Greeks. The works of this writer here mentioned, also abound in a great variety of other learning. In the first of these he speaks of himself as being the next that succeeded the apostles, and he promises in his works also, to write a commen tary on Genesis ; also in his treatise on the Passover, he acknow ledges that for the benefit of posterity, he was urged by his friends to commit to writing those traditions that he had heard from the ancient presbyters. He mentions, also, Melito and Irenaeus, and others, some of whose narratives he also gives. CHAPTER XIV. The books that Clement mentions. IN the work called Hypotyposes, to sum up the matter briefly, he has given us abridged accounts of all the canonical Scriptures, \ not even omitting those that are disputed, (The Antilegomenoi,) C* . I mean the book of Jude, and thejjther general epistles. Also the K epjsJle^fBarnabas, and that called the^revelation of Peter. But the Epistle to the Hebrews he asserts was written by Paul, to the Hebrews, in the HeErew tongue ; but that it was carefully trans lated by Luke, and published among the Greeks. Whence, also» one finds the same character of style and of phraseology in the 2G