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Dionysius, Bishop of
Corinth.
[a.d. 170.] Eusebius
is almost diffuse in what he tells us of this Dionysius,3709
| 3709 Book iv.
cap. 24, from which these Fragments are collected. See Westcott,
On the Canon, p. 206. | “who was appointed over the church
at Corinth, and imparted freely, not only to his own people, but to
others, and those abroad also, the blessings of his divine
labours.” He wrote “Catholic Epistles;” he
addressed an epistle to the Spartans and the Athenians; and, as
Eusebius says, Dionysius the Areopagite, the convert of St. Paul, was
the first bishop of Athens.3710
| 3710 See
Lightfoot, Ap. Fathers, part ii. vol. i. p. 555, where he
corrects the reading και
Πολύκαρπος. | He wrote
to the Nicomedians, refuting Marcion, and closely adhering to
“the rule of faith.” In an epistle to the Gortynians
and others in Crete, he praises Philip for his courageous ministry, and
warns them against the heretics. He seems to recognise Palmas as
bishop of Amastris and Pontus, and adds expositions of Scripture, and
rules regarding marriage, its purity and sanctity. He also
inculcates tenderness to penitent lapsers and backsliders. With
Pinytus, bishop of the Gnossians, he corresponds on similar subjects;
but Pinytus, while he thanks him and commends his clemency, evidently
regards him as too much inclined to furnish “food for
babes,” and counsels him to add “strong meat for those of
full age.” He also writes to Chrysophora, his most faithful
sister, imparting spiritual instruction.
Fragments from a Letter to the Roman
Church.
I.
For this has been your
custom from the beginning, to do good to all the brethren in various
ways, and to send resources to many churches which are in every city,
thus refreshing the poverty of the needy, and granting subsidies to the
brethren who are in the mines.3711
| 3711 [Routh (also
on Pinytus and Soter), R. S., p. 177. This series, vol.
vi. p. 102, note 3. Note also Lightfoot, A. F., part ii.
vol. ii. p. 192, note 1; and Westcott, Canon, p.
206.] | Through
the resources which ye have sent from the beginning, ye Romans, keep up
the custom of the Romans handed down by the fathers, which your blessed
Bishop Soter has not only preserved, but added to, sending a splendid
gift to the saints, and exhorting with blessed words those brethren who
go up to Rome, as an affectionate father his children.
II.
From the Same Epistle.3712
| 3712 [Comp. p.
758, note 8, supra. Also Ignatius, vol. i. p. 63, at note
2, this series.] |
We passed this holy Lord’s day, in which we read
your letter, from the constant reading of which we shall be able to
draw admonition, even as from the reading of the former one you sent us
written through Clement.
III.
From the Same.
Therefore you also have by such admonition joined
in close union the churches that were planted by Peter and Paul,
that of the Romans and that of the Corinthians: for both of them
went3713
to our Corinth, and taught us in the
same way as they taught you when they went to Italy; and having taught
you, they suffered martyrdom at the same time.3714
| 3714 The text is
evidently corrupt. |
IV.
From the Same.3715
| 3715 [For the
reply of Pinytus, and what is said by Eusebius of seven other epistles,
see Routh, R. S., vol. i. pp. 181–184.] |
For I wrote letters when the brethren requested me
to write. And these letters the apostles of the devil have filled
with tares, taking away some things and adding others, for whom a woe
is in store. It is not wonderful, then, if some have attempted to
adulterate the Lord’s writings, when they have formed designs
against those which are not such.3716
| 3716 i.e., of such
importance or of such a character. |
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