Irenæus; date of his birth, 98 n, 264; a pupil of Polycarp, date, 89, 97 sq; his letter to Florinus, 96 sq, 195 n; represents three Churches, 267; his connexion with the Letter of the Gallican Churches, 259; sent as delegate to Rome, 253, 259 n, 267; at Rome more than once, 267 n; his lectures there, 267; his pupil Hippolytus, 102, 145, 196 n, 267; date of his episcopate, 97; his remonstrance addressed to Victor, 100; his literary activity, 267; date of his Refutation, 259, 260; the first great controversial treatise, 271; its importance as evidence to the Canon, 271; his profuse scriptural quotations, 44 sq, 180, 181, 228, 261; Eusebius' method illustrated, 45, 46, 184; importance of his testimony to the Canon, 53, 89, 99, 166, 264 sq; appeals to the elders (see Elders); his evidence to the Fourth Gospel, 3 sq, 52, 53, 54 sq; to the motive of the Fourth Gospel, 48, 182; to four Gospels, 45, 48, 166, 233, 263 sq; to the Ignatian Epistles, 80, 82; to the Epistle of Polycarp, 82, 101, 104 sq; his appeal to the Gospels against the Valentinians, 219, 245 sq, 262; his controversial treatises, 267; his conflict with Gnosticism, 160, 219; on the Paschal question, 242, 244 sq, 267; on the duration of Christ's ministry, 246; on His age at the time of the Passion, 246 sq; on the Apocalypse, 45, 47, 216; on the old age of St John, 48, 92, 101; on Polycarp, 96 sq, 115, 116; on Papias, 4 sq, 127, 142 sq, 154, 158 sq, 166, 194 sq, 248 n; on the Hebrew original of St Matthew, 172; his Chiliasm, 151, 197; his evidence for episcopacy, 122; his use of the word 'oracles,' 174; his literary obligations to Papias, 202; to Melito, 236 sq; considered as a critic, 268 sq
Jacobson, 63, 66, 67 n, 69, 103 n, 123 n
Jerome;
on the Hebrew original of St Matthew, 208 n, 285;
on the Gospel according to the Hebrews, 42, 152, 208, 285;
on the public reading of Polycarp's Epistle, 105 n;
on Tatian's treatment of St Paul's Epistles, 273 n;
on Apollinaris, 242, 243
Jerusalem, results to the Christian Church from the fall of, 90 sq, 217
John (St);
at Ephesus, 91, 101, 142 sq;
his church organisation, 218;
the founder of a school, 217 sq;
the repositary of Apostolic doctrine and practice, 218;
his encounter with Cerinthus, 101, 212;
his connexion with Polycarp, 89, 92;
with Papias, 142 sq, 160, 193, 198, 210 sq;
with his namesake John the Presbyter, 143 sq, 187;
his longevity, 48, 89, 91, 92, 101, 217, 246;
a story of his martyrdom explained, 211 sq;
traditions respecting him, 48, 187, 189 sq, 210, 217;
see also Fourth Gospel
John (St), the Epistles of;
their position in the Canon of Eusebius, 39, 46 sq;
two mentioned in the Muratorian Canon, 190;
the First Epistle employed by Polycarp, 49 sq, 118, 191 sq, 220;
by Papias, 49, 154, 186, 190 sq, 206, 220;
by Irenæus, 45;
a postscript to the Fourth Gospel, 186 sq, 190, 220;
the evidence of Papias, and of the Muratorian Canon, to this
fact, 189, 206
John Malalas;
represents Ignatius as martyred at Antioch, 79 sq, 212 n, 214;
his historical blunders, 80 sq, 214, 269, 285;
on a visit of Antoninus Pius to Asia Minor, 98 n
John the Baptist;
his designation in the Fourth Gospel, 18 sq, 124 sq;
his father Zacharias, 146 n, 256 sq;
the [Greek: phônê], 232 n
John the Presbyter; in Asia Minor, 91; his connexion with Papias, 143 sq, 149, 150 n, 164, 165 sq, 266; with Pothinus, 266; with the Apostle St John, 143 sq, 187
Judith, date of the book of, 25 n