igin or not,' Compl. Ed. II. p. 323]. A few pages after
(p. 332), I find the work of Irenaeus, _de Ogdoade_, cited instead of
the _Epistle to Florinus_, for the relations between Irenaeus and
Polycarp. [This error is likewise tacitly corrected in the Compl. Ed.
II. p. 330.] It might have been supposed that any one who had looked
into the subject at all must have been aware that this _locus classicus_
was in the _Epistle to Florinus_. But Eusebius happens to quote the
treatise _de Ogdoade_ in the same chapter; and hence the mistake. Such
errors survive, though these pages have undergone at least two special
revisions, and though this 'sixth' edition is declared on the title page
to be 'carefully revised.'
[195:1] _S.R._ II. p. 333 (334).
[195:2] _S.R._ II. p. 329 (330).
[196:1] Iren. _Haer._ iv. 27. 1 sq; iv. 30. 1; iv. 31. 1; iv. 32. 1.
Even in this case there remains the possibility that we have a report of
lectures taken down at the time. The early work of Hippolytus on
Heresies was drawn up from a synopsis which he had made of the lectures
of Irenaeus (Photius _Bibl._ 12 1). Galen again speaks of his pupils
taking down his lectures as he delivered them (_Op._ xix. p. 11, ed.
Kuehn). The discourses which Irenaeus reports from the lips of this
anonymous elder (perhaps Melito or Pothinus) are so long and elaborate,
that the hypothesis of lecture notes seems almost to be required to
account for them.
[197:1] See above, p. 143.
[197:2] See above, p. 158 sq.
[198:1] See above, p. 158.
[198:2] Iren. _Haer._ v. 6. 1.
[199:1] _S.R._ II. p. 333.
[199:2] See above, p. 143.
[200:1] [See above, p. 154.]
[200:2] _Patrol. Graec._ lxxxix. p. 962 (ed. Migne).
[200:3] Under this 'spiritual' interpretation, Anastasius includes views
as wide apart as those of Philo, who interprets paradise as a
philosophical allegory, and Irenaeus, who regards it as a supramundane
abode; for both are named. But they have this in common, that they are
both opposed to a terrestrial region; and this is obviously the main
point which he has in view.
[201:1] _Patrol. Graec._ lxxxix. p. 964 sq.
[201:2] Cramer _Catena_ p. 358 sq.
[201:3] Routh (_Rel. Sacr._ I. p. 41) would end the quotation from
Papias at 'their array came to nought;' but the concluding sentence
seems to be required as part of the quotation, which otherwise would be
very meaningless. Papias, adopting the words of the Apocalypse,
emphasizes the fact that Sata
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