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references Q 1, 377–83 — Dr, 55 — TLG 1163 — CPG 1103 (De Pascha, fragmenta) — Cath 1, 704, G. Bardy — DHGE 3, 959–60, P. de Labriolle — EEC 12 , 79, E. Ferguson — LThK 1, 713–14, H. Rahner — LThK 13 , 826, C. Scholten — NCE 1, 667, E. Day — R. M. Grant, Greek Apologists, 83–91 XXVII. DIONYSIUS THE BISHOP ionysius, bishop of the church of Corinth, was a man of such eloquence and zeal that he instructed by letter not only the people of his own city and province, but also of other provinces and cities. 2. Among his letters1 is one, To the Spartans, a second, To the Athenians, a third, To the Nicomedians, a fourth, To the Cretans, a fifth, To the Church of Amastri and the other churches of Pontus, a sixth, To the Faithful of Knossos and to Pinytus, the bishop of that city, a seventh, To the Romans, which he addressed to their bishop, Soter, an eighth, To Chrysophora, a holy woman. 3. He lived in the reign of the emperor Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus.2 notes 1. The letters are no longer extant. See Eus., h.e. 4.23, translated in Q 1, 280–82. 2. “in the reign of the emperor Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus”: 161–192 a.d.; cf. Eus., h.e. 4.14, and Chron., ed. Helm, pp. 204–10. 50 ST. JEROME ...

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