[509:1] Euseb. v. 1.

[509:2] He was one hundred and sixteen years of age in A.D. 212 (Euseb. vi. 11), so that in A.D. 196, or about the time of the Palestinian Synod at which he presided (Euseb. v. 23), he was a century old.

[509:3] Etheridge’s “Syrian Churches,” pp. 9, 10.

[509:4] See 1 Tim. iv. 12.

[509:5] That is, Anacletus, Evaristus, Alexander, Sixtus, Telesphorus, and Hyginus; but some consider Anacletus the same as Cletus, who is supposed to have died before Clement.

[510:1] Pearson has noticed this fact, and has endeavoured to erect upon it an argument against the current chronology.  See his “Minor Works,” ii. 527.  It would appear that the names of the three bishops of Smyrna next after Polycarp were Thraseas, Papirius, and Camerius.  At least two of these had passed away a considerable time before the Paschal controversy.  See Greswell’s “Dissertations,” iv. part ii. p. 600, note.

[510:2] Hist. iv. 5.

[510:3] According to Eusebius his appointment took place after the destruction of Jerusalem, or about A.D. 71.  He was, therefore, at the head of the Church forty-five years, as his martyrdom occurred in A.D. 116.  According to this reckoning he was in his seventy-fifth year when made president.

[510:4] This explanation of the matter approximates to that given by Tillemont.  “Cela peut etre venu de ce qu’on les choisissoit entre les plus agez du Clerge pour les faire Evesques:  car on ne voit pas qu’ils ayent este plus persecutez que d’autres.”—­Mem. pour servir a l’Histoire Ecclesiastique, tom. ii. part ii. p. 40.  It would appear from Eusebius (iii. 32), that at the time of the death of Simeon there were still living a number of very old persons who were relatives of our Lord.  Some of these were, probably, elders in the Church of Jerusalem.

[511:1] He is said in the “Chronicon” of Eusebius to have presided sixteen years.

[511:2] Euseb. v. 12.

[512:1] In the tenth century, the darkest and most revolting period in the history of the Popedom, there were twenty-four bishops of Rome.  Some of these reigned only a few days; at least one of them was strangled; several of them died in prison; and several others were driven from the see or deposed.  There have been only twenty-four Popes in the last two hundred and fifty years.

[512:2] There have been only twenty-eight Archbishops of Canterbury since 1454.

[512:3] In the middle of the third century we find Firmilian appealing to it as a witness against the Church of Home.  Cyprian, Epist. lxxv.  Opera, p. 303.

[512:4] “Hist.” vi. 20.

[513:1] “Hist.” iv. 5; v. 12.

[513:2] Such as, after the death of the aged Simeon, when Justus, at the age of fivescore and ten, was advanced to the presidential chair.

[514:1] Irenaeus, iii. 2.  Tertullian, “De Praescrip.  Haeret.”  Sec. 25.