Irenaeus

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222 Notes to Chapter 3


  1. Polycarp, Philippians, praef., Πολύκαρπος καὶ οἱ σύν αὐτῷ πρεσβύτεροι, cf. A. Brent, Ignatius of
    Antioch: A Martyr Bishop and the Origin of Episcopacy (London: Continuum, 2007), 12–13, 149–50.

  2. Clement, C or. 44.5.

  3. Ibid., C or. 44.1.

  4. Dionysius of Corinth, apud Eusebius, HE IV.23.11.

  5. I came to this conclusion in my article, A. Brent, “Pseudonymity and Charisma in the Ministry
    of the Early Church,” Augustinianum, 27.3 (1987): 347–76. In the following year, I was pleased to observe
    corroboration in P. Lampe, Die stadtrömischen Christen in den ersten beiden Jahrhunderten (Wissenschaftliche
    Untersuchungen zum neuen Testament 2.18; Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 1987/1989), 339.

  6. Hegesippus, apud Eusebius, HE IV.22.2.

  7. Ibid., IV.22.1.

  8. Diogenes Laertius, Lives. See A. Brent, “Diogenes Laertius and the Apostolic Succession,” JEH 44, no.
    3 (1993): 372–75.

  9. See my account of this phenomenon in A. Brent, Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic: A Study
    of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan Culture, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 36
    (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006).

  10. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. III.2.2 (17–22).

  11. Diogenes Laertius, Lives IV.1.

  12. Ibid., V.52–53.

  13. Ibid., V.62.

  14. Diogenes Laertius, Lives V.65: τοῦτον διεδέξατο Λύκον, cf. previously (of Theophrastus’s successor)
    V.58: διεδέξατο δ ̓ αὐτοῦ τὴν σχολὴν Στράτων.

  15. Diogenes Laertius, Lives V.70.

  16. Brent (1995), 402–6.

  17. Lampe (1987/1989) 313, 316; cf. Brent (1995), 407–9.

  18. Justin Martyr, 1 Apol. 66.3; Acts of Justin 3.2: G. A. Bisbee, Pre-Decian Acts of Martyrs and Commen-
    tarii, Harvard Dissertations in Religion 22 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988); Lampe (1987/1989), 233–45;
    Brent (1995), 400 ff.

  19. Justin Martyr, Dial. 8.1.

  20. “Elder/presbyter”—“bishop”—“president.” Lampe (1987/1989), 324–25, 331–32; Brent (1995), 414–
    15, 420–21.

  21. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I.11.1 (1197–1199), and Brent (1995), 420–27.

  22. Elenchos IX.12.26.

  23. Ibid., IX.12.20-21.

  24. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. IV.6.2 (27–29); V.26.12 (76–79), cf. Eusebius, HE IV.18.9. See also J. Armitage
    Robinson, “On a Quotation from Justin Martyr in Irenaeus,” JTS 31, no. 4 (1930): 374–78.

  25. See above, footnote 11 and associated text.

  26. Eusebius, HE IV.23.9-10.

  27. Eusebius, HE V.4.2.

  28. 1 Tim. 4:14.

  29. 1 Cor. 5:4-5.

  30. Rom. 16:23.

  31. Clement, C or. 44.3. See also B. E. Bowe, A Church in Crisis: Ecclesiology and Paraenesis in Clement of
    Rome, Harvard Dissertations in Religion 23 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1988), and A. Brent, A Political His-
    tory of Early Christianity (New York: Continuum, 2009), 176–78.

  32. Ap. Trad. 2. I translate here from the Verona Latin Palimpsest, noting that the variation in S(AE) is
    indicative of some tampering in the textual transmission.

  33. E. C. Ratcliff, “‘Apostolic Tradition’: Questions Concerning the Appointment of the Bishop,” in Liturgi-
    cal Studies, edited by A. H. Couratin and D. H. Tripp (London: SPCK, 1976), 156–60. See also Brent (1995),
    468–71; P. Bradshaw et al., The Apostolic Tradition: Translation and Commentary, Hermeneia (Minneapolis:
    Fortress Press, 2002), 1–17; and A. Stewart-Sykes, Hippolytus, on the Apostolic Tradition, an English Transla-
    tion with Introduction and Commentary (Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001), 50.

  34. Eusebius, HE V.23-24.

  35. See above, footnote 2.

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