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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. PETER AT ROME POST-APOSTOLIC PERIOD. Apocryphal testimonies?Apostolic documents?Dionysius of Corinth?Irenseus and Justin Martyr ? Irentcus? Irenseus on tradition ? Conflict of testimony ? The founder ? Who were reputed to be founders'' ? Peter, as founder of the Roman Church ? The Preaching or Proclamation of Peter ? Inconsistencies?Clemens Alexandrinus? Gaius or Caius?Eusebius on Gaius and Dionysius?Anonymous writer against Artemon?Peter, bishop Tertullian?Scope of Tertullian's testimony?Apostolical foundations?Fictitious testimonies? Clementines and Recognitions?Apostolical Constitutions? Cyprian. It was observed in the foregoing chapter, that besides Apocryphal the passage in the epistle of Clemens to the Co- testimonies. rinthians, the fragmentary extracts of Eusebius from the lost work of Papias, and the few words quoted from the genuine epistle of Ignatius to the Romans, we find no trustworthy testimony to a visit of St. Peter to Rome within the apostolic age. In later times, indeed, several other documents referable to that age have been vouched to the fact in question. Such are the so-called Preaching of Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter, the Itinerary of Peter, the Clementine fictions, and the interpolated or corrupted editions of the Apostolical Canons and Constitutions. But all these documents are either too imperfectly known to lead us to any certain conclusion, or they are manifest forgeries, fabricated, as I think will appear hereafter, for a very different purpose, and at such a distance of time as to deprive them of all A work to which Eusebius himself bius, is properly regarded as a clumsy (lib. iii. c. 39) attached no great value. interpolation. The eulogium upon Papias, inserted in K-fipirypa nirp...
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