Melito;
his date, 223, 224;
a contemporary of Polycarp and Papias, 224;
perhaps one of the elders quoted in Irenæus, 196 n, 224;
perhaps a teacher of Clement of Alexandria, 218, 224;
his travels, 224, 226;
his learning, 228;
his orthodoxy, 230;
range of his literary works, 32, 102, 224;
their popularity, 102, 224, 230;
his lost works, 223, 225, 229;
his Apology, 223, 241 n;
the preface to his Selections, 226;
(1) the extant Greek fragments, their genuineness, 228 sq;
supported by the evidence of Tertullian and Hippolytus to his
style, 229 sq, 234;
not the work of Meletius, 231;
their direct evidence to the Gospels, 231;
(2) the Syriac fragments, 232 sq;
their theology, 234 sq;
his doctrine of the Logos, 234;
his references to the Virgin Mary, 235 sq;
passages from his works incorporated into Irenæus, 236 sq;
Armenian version of a fragment and its Syriac abridgment, 236 sq;
a quotation in Chronicon Paschale, 241 n;
his work on the Paschal controversy, 223, 225, 241 n, 242 sq;
evidence to the Fourth Gospel therefrom, 248;
notice of the Apocalypse in, 47, 216;
coincidences with St Paul's Epistles, 237;
his treatise against Marcion, 231;
date and manner of his death, 224
Merx, 64, 71
Mill (J.S.), 28 sq, 204
Milman, 65
Ministry, the duration of our Lord's, 16 sq, 48, 131, 245 sq
Miracles, 26 sq
[Moesinger, 288]
Montanism;
its centre in Asia Minor, 219;
correspondence between the Churches of Asia and Gaul relating to, 253;
Irenæus' mission to Rome respecting, 253, 259 n;
not referred to in the Ignatian Epistles, 85;
nor in the Epistle of Polycarp, 106;
opposed by Apollinaris, 238;
by Irenæus, 267;
the question of the Canon involved in the controversy with, 219, 238, 267
Morality and dogma, 27 sq
Mosheim, 68