Elders;
quoted by Papias, 4 sq, 143, 145, 159, 163, 168, 181, 194, 197 sq;
by Irenæus, 4, 6, 48, 54, 58, 102, 145, 195 sq, 218, 233, 245, 247 sq;
who both reports their conversations, and cites their works, 196 sq;
identification of some of them, 194 sq, 196 n, 224, 248 n, 266
Eleutherus, Bishop of Rome, 99, 261;
Irenæus sent as delegate to, 253, 259 n
Elias of Salamia;
his Diatessaron, 280;
his name Aphthonius, 280
Encratites;
Apollinaris' treatises against the, 238, 243;
Tatian's connexion with the, 272, 284
Ephesus;
St John at, 91, 101, 142 sq, 217 sq;
other Apostles at, 91;
Wood's excavations at, 291, 294 n, 297 sq;
cultus of Artemis at, 297 sq;
the great theatre at, 298 sq;
the designation of magistrates, 299;
the title neocoros, 300;
the lawful assemblies, 301;
image-processions at, 301 sq;
gates of, 302
Ephraem of Antioch, 172
Ephraem Syrus;
date of his death, 280;
his commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron, 280 sq;
[an Armenian version discovered, 287]
Epiphanius;
date of his work on Heresies, 284;
his treatise against the Alogi, 215 n;
his obligations to Hippolytus, 216 n;
his historical blunders, 260, 269, 285;
confuses Tatian's Diatessaron with the Gospel according
to the Hebrews, 284
Episcopacy;
in the time of St John, 218;
in Asia Minor in the time of Ignatius, 84;
stress laid upon it in the Ignatian Epistles, 107;
especially in the Vossian Letters, 87;
the Ignatian controversy centres round the question of, 61;
not mentioned in the Epistle of Polycarp, 106, 107 sq, 122;
prominent in the writings of Irenæus, 122
Ernesti, 68