Section 5
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IV Jerusalem, of whose Epistles there is a brief notice in connection with what are called the Seven Catholic Epistles, (ch. 23.) The history then relates the martyrdoms of Peter and Paul, re ferring as authority to Caius, an Ecclesiastical writer who flourished soon after the events ; and also to Dionysius of Corinth. This book closes with a review of the great miseries now thickening around the Jews ; but does not carry us yet, as far as the destruc tion of Jerusalem, and may be said to comprise between thirty and forty years after our Lord's ascension. The third book commences with a succinct statement of the re gions evangelized by some of the apostles. The epistles of the apostles are reviewed according to their canonical authority, and in a digression, is subjoined to this the account of those who im mediately succeeded the Apostles Peter and Paul in their labors, (ch. 4.) The narrative returns then to the affairs of the Jews ; details the destruction of Jerusalem-under Titus ; compares the predictions of our Lord with the sign of the times, and refers to the contemporary testimony of Josephus. The works of the latter are mentioned and reviewed, together with the Canon of the Old Testament, (ch. 10,) and a notice of those who, under "Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, were bishops of Jerusalem, Rome, and Alex andria, (ch. 11, 13.) About this period occurred the dissensions in the Church of Corinth, (ch. 16 ;) the persecution also under Domitian, which, connected with the origin of the Apocalypse, furnishes occasion to detail some parts of St. John's history, and the relatives of our Lord, (ch. 20,) John's return from the Isle of Patmos, the episco pate of Ignatius at Antioch, the history of the youth recovered to the Church by the efforts of St. John, are spread before us from the writings of the Alexandrian, Clement and Irenaus. Eusebius now, from the writings of St, John, passes to the order and authors of the gospels, and reconciling apparent discrepancies, lays down that important statement of the Canon of the New Testament, which was received in the primitive Church, together