...converted to Christianity, one knows not with certainty in what year. His writings were composed about the end of the second century and the beginning of the third. Tertullian has left us no reason to doubt what his opinions were, in respect to the point in question....

...has been frequently called the sacrament of chrism or anointing : and it must be confessed, that in the end of the second century and the beginning of the third, from the testimonies of some of the fathers of that period, this ceremony of anointing followed the...

...Christianity was almost annihilated. After an interval of comparative quiet, persecution raged again, at the end of the second century, and the beginning of the third, under Severus : who promulgated a law prohibiting any of his subjects from renouncing the religion...

...unclean or polluted in their nature. Accordingly, we read that the ancient Christians, who lived about the end of the second century and the beginning of the third, did not forbear to condemn the Montanists' laws of abstinence, and to apply to them that passage of...

...know, Pliny found to be customary among the Christians. In the controversies with the Unitarians, about the end of the second century, and the beginning of the third, the hymns, in which from early times Christ had been honoured as a God, were appealed to. The power...

...bishop of Antioch, quoted the Revelation of John, as having Divine authority.^ From the next generation, at the end of the second century, and the beginning of the third, we obtain the testimony of the * Just. Op. p. 308, a. Eusebius also states that Justin expressly declared...

...glad throng Who to thy church helow, Unite to swell the song, To Christ our King.' Clement flourished at the end of the second century and the beginning of the third, so that, since this hymn is undoubtedly from his pen, Eastern Christendom is here represented by at...

...difficulty, was beginning to be deeply felt. Even in the time of Clement of Alexandria, who wrote about the end of the second century and the beginning of the third, the christian community was not what it had been. Those whom he addresses appear to have lived in great...

...gathered as it has been from different sources, with the contemporary Latin. CLEMENT of Alexandria, in the end of the second century, and the beginning of the third, is a writer who quotes much from the New Testament All his citations are worthy of notice, though it...

...of this work is much to be regretted. VIII. ANONYMOUS ELDERS QUOTED BY IEENJSUS. Irenaeus who lived at the end of the second century, and the beginning of the third, quotes several passages from certain " men of old time," but without mentioning their names or even,...