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302 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. had written a commentary on the beginning of Ecclesiastes. But he has also left us several epistles addressed to the same Basilides. These are the works of Dionysius. Having given this account, let us now proceed to inform posterity of the nature and character of our own age. CHAPTER XXVII. Paul of Samosata, and the heresy introduced by him at Antioch. XYSTUS had been bishop of Rome eleven years, when he was succeeded by Dionysius, the namesake of the bishop of Alexan dria. At this time also, Demetrianus dying at Antioch, the epis copate was conferred on Paul of Samosata. As he entertained low and degrading notions of Christ, contrary to the doctrine of the church, and taught that he was in nature but a common man, the Dionysius of Alexandria being invited to attend the council, urged his age and the infirmity of his body, as his reason for de ferring his attendance, but gave his sentiments of the subject be fore them in an epistle. But the other heads of churches, assem bled in all haste from different parts, at Antioch, as against one who was committing depredations on the flock of Christ. CHAPTER XXVIII. The different bishops then distinguished. AMONG these, the most eminent were Firmilianus, bishop of Cesarea in Cappadocia, Gregory and Athenodorus, brothers and pastors of the churches in Pontus ; also Helenus, bishop of the church at Tarsus, and Nicomas, of Iconium ; besides Hymenasus of the church at Jerusalem, and Theotecnus, of the adja cent church at Cesarea : moreover, Maximinus, who governed the brethren at Bostra with great celebrity. The vast number of others, both presbyters and deacons, that assembled in the