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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 241 indeed, wheresoever there are found those qualified to benefit the brethren, these are exhorted by the holy bishops to address the people. Thus at Laranda, Euelpis was exhorted by Neon, and at Iconium, Paulinus by Celsus, and at Synada, Theodore by Atticus, our blessed brethren. It is also probable, that this has happened in other places, but we know not that it has." In this way the selfsame Origen wras honoured, wrhen yet a young man, not only by his own familiar friends, but also by bishops abroad. But Demetrius, recalling him by letter, and urging his return to Alexandria, by sending members and deacons of the church, he returned and pursued the accustomed duties of his occupation. CHAPTER XX. The works of the writers of the day still extant. MANY learned men of the church also flourished in these times, of whom we may easily find epistles, which they wrote to one another, still extant. These have been also preserved for us in the library of ^Elia, which was built by Alexander, who was bishop there. From this we have also been able to collect ma terials for our present work. Of these Beryllus has left us, to gether with epistles and treatises, also different kinds of works written with elegance and taste. But he was bishop of Bostra in Arabia. Hippolytus, also, who was bishop of another church, has left us some works. There is beside, a discussion that has come down to us, of Caius, a most learned man, held at Rome in the times of Zephyrinus, against Proclus, who contended for the Phrygian heresy. In which, whilst he silences the rashness and daring of his opponents in composing new books, (/. e. of Scripture,) he makes mention of only thirteen epistles, not reck oning that to the Hebrews with the rest ; as there are, even to this day, some of the Romans who do not consider it to be the work of the apostles. 2H