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Concerning His Journey to
Rome, and the Jewish Sects.3704
| 3704 Also in
Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., iv. 22. |
And the church of the Corinthians continued in the
orthodox faith3705
up to the time
when Primus was bishop in Corinth. I had some intercourse with
these brethren on my voyage to Rome, when I spent several days
with the Corinthians, during which we were mutually refreshed by the
orthodox faith.
On my arrival at Rome, I drew up a list of the
succession of bishops down to Anicetus, whose deacon was
Eleutherus. To Anicetus succeeded Soter, and after him
came Eleutherus. But in the case of every
succession,3706
| 3706 [Elucidation, p.
785.] | and in every
city, the state of affairs is in accordance with the teaching of the
Law and of the Prophets and of the Lord.…
And after James the Just had suffered martyrdom,
as had the Lord also and on the same account, again Symeon the
son of Clopas, descended from the Lord’s uncle, is made
bishop, his election being promoted by all as being a kinsman of the
Lord.
Therefore was the Church called a virgin, for she
was not as yet corrupted by worthless teaching.3707
Thebulis it was who,
displeased because he was not made bishop, first began to
corrupt her by stealth. He too was connected with the seven sects
which existed among the people, like Simon, from whom come the
Simoniani; and Cleobius, from whom come the Cleobiani; and Doritheus,
from whom come the Dorithiani; and Gorthæus, from whom come the
Gortheani; Masbothæus, from whom come the Masbothæi.
From these men also come the Menandrianists, and the
Marcionists, and the Carpocratians, and the Valentinians, and the
Basilidians, and the Saturnilians. Each of these leaders
in his own private and distinct capacity brought in his own private
opinion. From these have come false Christs, false prophets,
false apostles—men who have split up the one Church into
parts3708
through their corrupting doctrines,
uttered in disparagement of God and of His
Christ.…
There were, moreover, various opinions in the
matter of circumcision among the
children of Israel, held by those who were opposed to the tribe of
Judah and to Christ: such as the Essenes, the Galileans, the
Hemerobaptists, the Masbothæi, the Samaritans, the Sadducees, the
Pharisees.
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