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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 269 sacrifice ; and in my opinion it would have been a greater glory For there, in the one case, the individual gives a testimony for his own soul, but in the other he bears witness for the whole church. Arid now, if thou persuade or constrain the brethren to return to unanimity, thy uprightness will be greater than thy de lusion, and the latter wall not be .laid to thy charge, but the other will be applauded ; but if thou art unable to prevail with thy friends, save thy own soul. With the hope that thou art desirous of peace in the Lord, I bid thee farewell." Such was the epistle of Dionysius to Novatus. CHAPTER XLVL Other epistles of Dionysius. HE wrote, also, an epistle to the brethren in Egypt, On Repent ance, in which he gives his opinion respecting those who had fallen, and in which he also gives the degrees of faults. There is also a separate work of his extant, On Repentance, addressed to Conon bishop of Hermopolis ; and also another epistle of re proof to his flock at Alexandria. Among these, is also the work addressed to Origen, On Martyrdom; also, an epistle to the brethren of Laodicea, where Thelymidres was bishop. He wrote in like manner to the Armenians, On Repentance, where Meruzanes was bishop. Besides all these, he wrote to Cornelius at Rome, in answer to an epistle from him, against Novatus ; in which answer he shows that he had been invited by Helenus, bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, and the rest that were collected with him, viz. Firmilianus, bishop in Cappadocia, and Theoctistus of Palestine, that he should meet them at the council of Antioch, where certain persons were trying to establish the schism of Novatus. Besides this, he wrote that he had been informed Fabius was dead, but that Demetrianus was appointed his successor in .he episcopate of the church at Antioch. He also writes respectng the bishop of Jerusalem, in these words : " As to the blessed