...serve the Trinitarian cause : but on the other hand it appears from them, that in their time (about the close of the second century, and the beginning of the third) those words were found in St. John's Epistle. And indeed without them the argument of St. John seems...

...delusion as to the immediate approach of the end of the world. This delusion was especially rife about the close of the second century and the beginning of the third, under the auspices of Montanus, a fanatic of Phrygia, in Asia Minor, and his two prophetesses, Priscilla...

...It is known that the presbyter Caius, who, as well a* Hippolytm, was connected with the Roman church at the close of the second century and' the beginning of the third, was likewise a hearer oí' Irenteus. The marks of this instruction arc still discernible in Hippolytus's...

...from Clement of Alexandria as to the State of Christian society in that city in his time, which was the close of the second century, and the beginning of the third : — • The writings of Clement of Alexandria present a picture of eociety in that luxurious city....

...the Gallic Churches across cimrch in the sea. Taking now another stride of fifty years, we come to the close of the second century and the beginning of the third. At that time the greatest light rif the Church, and one of the most powerful minds and ooblest spirits...

...councils commenced in Greece, from whence it soon spread through the provinces." But it was not until the close of the second century and the beginning of the third that the Popedom may properly be said to have had any existence. It dates from the pontificate of Saint...

...over. And she needed all she had accumulated for the days of Cassius, in AD 163, and of Severus, about the close of the second century and the beginning of the third. The King of Parthia, Volagases III., who reigned from 148 to 190, determined, in 160, to avenge Parthian...

...apostolic tradition to continue unaffected much longer by the rising intellectual activity of the Church. At the close of the second century, and the beginning of the third, the attempt was made by Irenzeus in the West, and by Origen in the East, to give some reply to the...

...not be advocated without making ground on which the Egyptian could stand. In the time of Dio Cassius, at the close of the second century and the beginning of the third, this was likely to have been already so forced upon heathen attention that it could not be ignored....

...baptism, of which we have any knowledge, was by Tertullian, an eccentric genius, who flourished about the close of the second century and the beginning of the third. He was made presbyter in the Church of Carthage, AD 192. He wrote much that was useful on moral subjects,...