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| The Rulers of the Church of Antioch.
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Chapter
XX.—The Rulers of the Church of
Antioch.
1. At
that time also in the church of Antioch, Theophilus1213
| 1213 On
Theophilus and his writings, see chap. 24. | was well known as the sixth from the
apostles. For Cornelius,1214
| 1214 Of
the life and character of Cornelius and Eros we know nothing. The
Chron. of Eusebius puts the accession of Cornelius into the
twelfth year of Trajan (128 a.d.), and the
accession of his successor Eros into the fifth year of Antoninus Pius
(142). These dates, however, are quite unreliable, and we have no means
of correcting them (see Harnack’s Zeit des Ignatius, p. 12
sqq.). Theophilus, the successor of Eros we have reason to think became
bishop about the middle of Marcus Aurelius’ reign and hence the
Chron., which puts his accession into the ninth year of that
reign, (169 a.d.) cannot be far out of the
way. This gives us the approximate date for the death of
Eros. | who succeeded
Hero,1215
| 1215 On
Hero, see above, Bk. III. chap. 36, note 23. | was the fourth, and after him Eros,1216
| 1216 On
Eros, see note 2. | the fifth in order, had held the office of
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