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Chapter XVII.
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disciple of the
apostle John and by him ordained bishop of Smyrna was chief of all
Asia, where he saw and had as teachers some of the apostles and of
those who had seen the Lord. He, on account of certain questions
concerning the day of the Passover, went to Rome in the time of the
emperor Antoninus Pius while Anicetus ruled the church in that city.
There he led back to the faith many of the believers who had been
deceived through the persuasion of Marcion and Valentinus, and when
Marcion met him by chance and said “Do you know us” he
replied, “I know the firstborn of the devil.” Afterwards
during the reign of Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus in
the fourth persecution after Nero, in the presence of the proconsul
holding court at Smyrna and all the people crying out against him in
the Amphitheater, he was burned. He wrote a very valuable Epistle to
the Philippians which is read to the present day in the meetings in
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