image-processions at, 301 sq;
gates of, 302

Ephraem of Antioch, 172

Ephraem Syrus;
date of his death, 280;
his commentary on Tatian's _Diatessaron_, 280 sq;
[an Armenian version discovered, 287]

Epiphanius;
date of his work on _Heresies_, 284;
his treatise against the Alogi, 215 n;
his obligations to Hippolytus, 216 n;
his historical blunders, 260, 269, 285;
confuses Tatian's _Diatessaron_ with the _Gospel according
to the Hebrews_, 284

Episcopacy;
in the time of St John, 218;
in Asia Minor in the time of Ignatius, 84;
stress laid upon it in the Ignatian Epistles, 107;
especially in the Vossian Letters, 87;
the Ignatian controversy centres round the question of, 61;
not mentioned in the Epistle of Polycarp, 106, 107 sq, 122;
prominent in the writings of Irenaeus, 122

Ernesti, 68

Euodia and Syntyche, extravagant German theories respecting, 24 sq

Eusebius;
sources of his history, 32 sq;
his rule of procedure in dealing with the Canon, 36 sq, 46 sq, 178 sq,
190 sq, 215 sq;
tested on extant literature, 40 sq;
what his silence means, 32 sq;
its value as a direct testimony, 51;
his trustworthiness and moderation, 49 sq, 209;
his habit of incomplete and combined quotations, 168, 209;
on the Ignatian Epistles, 72 sq, 80, 82;
on Papias, 142 sq, 147, 151 sq, 154, 167, 186, 190 sq;
his estimate of Papias, 209;
on John the Presbyter, 143 sq;
his lists of the works of Melito not exhaustive, 224 sq, 228;
nor those of the works of Apollinaris, 238, 242;
dependent upon Pamphilus' library, 225;
on the Paschal controversy, 17, 245;
attempts to harmonize the Gospel narrative, 208, 209;
for this purpose perhaps borrows from Papias, 208

Evagrius, 80

Ewald, 63, 65, 136, 204

[Greek: epi Traianou], 81

[Greek: epistolai], of a single letter, 114, 189

[Greek: exegesis], 155 n, 156, 160 n, 175 sq;
and [Greek: diegesis], 157 n

Fathers, early;
compared in historical accuracy with classical writers, 268 sq;
considered as critics, 167, 229, 263, 268;
the dearth of scriptural quotations in their works
accounted for, 33, 271;
explanation of their literary plagiarisms, 202, 237

Felicitas, 83

Florinus;
a pupil of Polycarp, 96 sq;
Irenaeus' letter to, 96 sq, 195 n;
date of his connexion with the royal court, 97 sq;
his subsequent history, 98

Four Gospels;
that number only recognized in the Muratorian