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subject	book bibliographic info
eleutherus	Lampe (2003) 391, 394, 395, 396, 403, 404, 405 Moss (2012) 116 Osborne (2001) 4, 5, 147 Taylor (2012) 173

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1 validated results for "eleutherus"

1. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 4.22, 5.3.4, 5.4.2 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Eleutherus

Found in books: Lampe (2003) 394, 403, 404; Moss (2012) 116; Osborne (2001) 4, 5; Taylor (2012) 173

5.3.4. The followers of Montanus, Alcibiades and Theodotus in Phrygia were now first giving wide circulation to their assumption in regard to prophecy — for the many other miracles that, through the gift of God, were still wrought in the different churches caused their prophesying to be readily credited by many — and as dissension arose concerning them, the brethren in Gaul set forth their own prudent and most orthodox judgment in the matter, and published also several epistles from the witnesses that had been put to death among them. These they sent, while they were still in prison, to the brethren throughout Asia and Phrygia, and also to Eleutherus, who was then bishop of Rome, negotiating for the peace of the churches.
5.4.2. We pray, father Eleutherus, that you may rejoice in God in all things and always. We have requested our brother and comrade Irenaeus to carry this letter to you, and we ask you to hold him in esteem, as zealous for the covet of Christ. For if we thought that office could confer righteousness upon any one, we should commend him among the first as a presbyter of the church, which is his position.' '. None

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