Description of the Epistles
Having made himself known to all, in which he represented himself through universal letters to the churches. Of these, the one to the Lacedaemonians is catechetical regarding orthodoxy, and foundational for peace and unity.
The one to the Athenians is an awakening of faith and of the way of life according to the Gospel; which, having grown small, he reproves, saying that they must be little ones departing from the Word, from whom he testifies of their leader Puplius regarding the persecutions that happened then. And he remembers Kodratus standing as their bishop after the one who testified, Puplius; testifying how, through his zeal, they had been gathered together and had received a rekindling of faith.
And he shows upon this, how even Dionysius the Areopagite, having been turned to faith by the apostle Paul according to what was made manifest in the deeds Acts 17:34, was first entrusted with the oversight of the residence in Athens.
And another of his letter to Nicomedes is brought forward; in which, warring against the heresy of Marcion, he presents the rule to the truth. And to the church residing at Corinth, along with the others, according to [...]
Greek
ἅπασιν ἑαυτὸν καθιστὰς, ἐν αἷς ὑπετυποῦτο καθολικαῖς πρὸς τὰς ἐκκλησίας ἐπιστολαῖς. ὧν ἐστιν, Ἡ ΜΕΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΑΚΕ∆ΑΙΜΟΝΙΟΥΣ, ὀρθοδοξίας κατηχητικὴ, εἰρήνης τε καὶ ἑνώσεως ὑποθετική. 182 Ἡ ∆Ε ΠΡΟΣ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΥΣ, διεγερτικὴ πίστεως καὶ τῆς κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον πολιτείας· ἧς ὀλιγωρήσαντας ἐλέγχει, ὡς ἂν μικροῦ δεῖν ἀποστάντας τοῦ λόγου, ἐξ οὗπερ τὸν προεστῶτα αὐτῶν Πούπλιον μαρτυρῆσαι κατὰ τοὺς τότε συνέβη διωγμούς. Κοδράτου δὲ μετὰ τὸν μαρτυρήσαντα Πούπλιον καταστάντος αὐτῶν ἐπισκόπου μέμνηται· ἐπιμαρτυρῶν, ὡς ἂν διὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ σπουδῆς ἐπισυναχθέντων, καὶ τῆς πίστεως ἀναζωπύρησιν εἰληχότων· δηλοῖ δ' ἐπὶ τούτοις, ὡς καὶ ∆ιονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀποστόλου Παύλου προτραπεὶς ἐπὶ τὴν πίστιν κατὰ τὰ ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι δεδηλωμένα, πρῶτος τῆς ἐν Ἀθήναις παροικίας τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν ἐγκεχείριστο. 1 Ἄλλη δ' ἐπιστολή τις αὐτοῦ ΠΡΟΣ ΝΙΚΟΜΗ∆ΕΑΣ φέρεται· ἐν ᾗ τὴν Μαρκίωνος αἵρεσιν πολεμῶν, τῷ τῆς ἀληθείας παρίσταται κανόνι. Καὶ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ δὲ τῇ παροικούσῃ ΓΟΡΤΥΝΑΝ ἉΜΑ ΤΑΙΣ ΛΟΙΠΑΙΣ ΚΑΤΑ
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Surviving pieces of Diodorus of Tarsus, who led Antioch's plain-sense school against Alexandrian allegory.
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