[(a) In the Ist century then,—it has been already shown (at page [463]) that Ignatius (a.d. 90) probably recognized the reading before us in three places.]
[(b) The brief but significant testimony of Barnabas will be found in the same page.]
[(c) In the IInd century,—Hippolytus [a.d. 190] (as was explained at page [463],) twice comes forward as a witness on the same side.]
[(d) In the IIIrd century,—Gregory Thaumaturgus, (if [pg 487] it be indeed he) has been already shown (at page [463]) probably to testify to the reading Θεὸς ἐφανερώθη.]
[(e) To the same century is referred the work entitled Constitutiones Apostolicæ: which seems also to witness to the same reading. See above, p. [463].]
[(f) Basil the Great also [a.d. 355], as will be found explained at page [464], must be held to witness to Θεὸς ἐφανερώθη in 1 Tim. iii. 16: though his testimony, like that of the five names which go before, being open to cavil, is not here insisted on.]—And now to get upon terra firma.
(1) To the IIIrd century then [a.d. 264?], belongs the Epistle ascribed to Dionysius of Alexandria, (spoken of above, at pages [461-2],) in which 1 Tim. iii. 16 is distinctly quoted in the same way.
(2) In the next, (the IVth) century, unequivocal Patristic witnesses to Θεὸς ἐφανερώθη abound. Foremost is Didymus, who presided over the Catechetical School of Alexandria,—the teacher of Jerome and Rufinus. Born a.d. 309, and becoming early famous, he clearly witnesses to what was the reading of the first quarter of the IVth century. His testimony has been set forth at page [456].
(3) Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus [a.d. 355], a contemporary of Basil, in two places is found to bear similar witness. See above page [457].
(4) Diodorus, (or “Theodorus” as Photius writes his name,) the teacher of Chrysostom,—first of Antioch, afterwards the heretical bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia,—is next to be cited [a.d. 370]. His testimony is given above at pages [458-9].