...subjects. Artemon and Artemonites. — Artemon, the founder of the Artemonites, taught in Rome, at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century. He declared the doctrine of the Divinity of Christ to be an innovation, and maintained that the belief...

...of it, it is a real one ; if not, it is an illusion.' Commentary. — R. Jannai lived in Sepphoris about the end of the second and the beginning of the third century. He was one of the teachers of R. Johanan, to whom is traditionally ascribed the codification of the...

...ascertain the precise moment of their commencement. But a candid inquirer cannot avoid perceiving, that about the end of the second, and the beginning of the third century, some changes had taken place in the ecclesiastical system, which indicated a departure from its primitive...

...century AD, and this is generally given as his date. Professor Lucian Miiller, however, places him at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century on account of the accuracy of his prosody and metre. This earlier date seems the more probable one...

...Benedict XIV, "De Synodo Diœcesanâ", VIII, ix, n. 10). This hierarchy of ecclesiastical origin arose at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century, and appears definitely fixed at Rome under Pope Cornelius (251-252), who tells us that in his day the...

...discovered, the majority of the latter belonging, as the frequent use of the name Aurelius shows, to the end of the second and the beginning of the third century. Of the five soldiers whose birthplace is mentioned on their tombstones, three came from Hemesa itself,...

...doctrinal authority, appealing to it in opposition to the heresy of Hermogenes.1 Tertullian of Carthage, at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century, quotes extensively from the book, and appears to know of no objection to it except that of Marcion...

...to the thorough Iranization of the dynasty, and to its increasing religiosity. The type recurs, at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century, on gold funerary crowns. The religious and political character of these representations is even more...

...Panopolis. But we know from Kusebius that the gospel was in use in part of the diocese of Antioch at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century, and it is thought, by some of those competent to judge such matters, that it was in existence in the...

...and oldest mention of this phenomenon occurs in the " Deipnosophistae " of Athanseus, who lived at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century AD, a work which contains quotations from several hundred authors whose writings have not come down...