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| From a Dialogue or Disputation Against Proclus.
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Fragments of
Caius.
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I.—From a Dialogue or Disputation
Against Proclus.4956
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defender of the sect of the Cataphrygians. |
I.
(Preserved in Eusebius’ Eccles.
Hist., ii. 25.)
And I can show the
trophies of the apostles.4957
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Jerome, in the Epistle to Marcellus, says: “There, too, is
a holy church; there are the trophies of the apostles and
martyrs.” | For if you choose to go to the
Vatican or to the Ostian Road,4958
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The mss. and the Chronicon of
Georgius Syncellus read Vasican, Βασικανόν.
The reference is to the Vatican as the traditional burial place of
Peter, and to the Ostian Road as that of Paul. | you will find the trophies of those
who founded this church.
II.
(In the same, iii. 28.)
But Cerinthus, too, through revelations written,
as he would have us believe, by a great apostle, brings before us
marvellous things, which he pretends were shown him by angels; alleging
that after the resurrection the kingdom of Christ is to be on earth,
and that the flesh4959
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[Vol. i. pp. 351–352, 416.] | dwelling in Jerusalem is again to be
subject to desires and pleasures. And being an enemy to the
Scriptures of God, wishing to deceive men, he says that there is to be
a space of a thousand years for marriage festivals.
III.
(In the same, iii. 31.)
And after this there were four prophetesses,
daughters of Philip, at Hierapolis in Asia. Their tomb is there,
and that, too, of their father.4960
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This extract is taken from the Disputation of Caius, but the words are
those of Proclus, as is shown by the citation in Eusebius. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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