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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 301 lations in his epistles; which, however, he never recorded in writing. " We may, also, notice how the phraseology of the gospel and the epistle differs from the apocalypse. For the former are written not only irreprehensibly, as it regards the Greek language, but are most elegant in diction in the arguments and the whole structure of the style. It would require much to discover any barbarism or solecism, or any odd peculiarity of expression* at all in them. For, as is to be presumed, he was endued with all the requisites for his discourse; the Lord having granted him both that of knowledge and that of expression and style. That the latter, however, saw a revelation, and received knowledge and prophecy, I do not deny. But I perceive that his dialect and language is not very accurate Greek ; but that he uses barbarous idioms, and in some places solecisms, which it is now unneces sary to select ; for neither would I have any one suppose that I am saying these things by way of derision, but only with the view to point out the great difference between the writings of these men." CHAPTER XXVI. The epistles of Dionysius. BESIDES these, there are many other epistles of Dionysius ex tant, as those to Ammon, bishop of the church at Bernice, against Sabellius; another to Telesphorus, and one to Euphranor ; another to Ammon and Euporus. He wrote also four books on the same subject, which he addressed to his namesake Dionysius at Rome. There are also many other epistles beside these writ ten by him, together with longer treatises in the form of epistles, as those addressed to the youth Timothy, and that On Tempta tions, which he also dedicated to Euphranor. He also says, in a letter to Basilides, bishop (of the churches) of Pentapolis, that he We have here paraphrased the word «$OT«