[64:2] Vol. i. p. 377.
[64:3] It is quite clear that the bishops of whom Irenaeus speaks were not a distinct order from presbyters. Thus he says, "It is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the Church, those who possess the succession from the apostles, and who together with the succession of the episcopate have received the certain gift of truth." ... "It behoves us ... to adhere to those who ... hold the doctrine of the apostles, and who, together with the order of the presbytery, display sound speech and blameless conduct."—Contra Haer. lib. iv. c. 26, § 2, 4.
[65:1] Irenicum, part ii. chap. 7.
[65:2] Contra Haer. iii. 3, 4.
[65:3] "It is," says he, "at all events not likely," vol. i. p. 425.
[66:1] 1 Tim. i. 18.
[66:2] If he was eighty-six years of age at the time of his martyrdom in A.D. 169, he was born A.D. 83.
[67:1] Even Eusebius has given some countenance to this practice. See his Evangelical Preparation, xii. c. 31.
[68:1] Döllinger's Hippolytus and Callistus, p. 113.
[69:1] § 9. See this letter in Appendix II.