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From the Epistles of Alexander.
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I. An Epistle to the People of
Antioch.1230
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A fragment. In Eusebius, Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch.
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Alexander, a servant and prisoner of Jesus Christ,
sends greeting in the Lord to the blessed church of Antioch. Easy
and light has the Lord made my bonds to me during the time of my
imprisonment since I have learned that in the providence of God,
Asclepiades—who, in regard to the right faith, is most eminently
qualified for the office—has undertaken the episcopate of your
holy church of Antioch. And this epistle, my brethren and
masters, I have sent by the hand of the blessed presbyter
Clement,1231
1231 It
was the opinion of Jerome in his Catalogusthat the Clement
spoken of by Alexander was Clement of Alexandria. This Clement,
at any rate, did live up to the time of the Emperor Severus, and
sojourned in these parts, as he tells us himself in the first book of
his Stromateis. And he was also the friend of bishop
Alexander, to whom he dedicated his book On the Ecclesiastical
Canon, or Against the Jews, as Eusebius states in his Eccles.
Hist., book vi. ch. xiii. (Migne). [But from the third of
these epistles one would certainly draw another inference. How
could he, a pupil of Clement, describe and introduce his master
in such terms as he uses here?] | a man virtuous
and well tried, whom ye know already, and will know yet better; who
also, coming here by the providence and supervision of the Master, has
strengthened and increased the Church of the Lord.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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