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An Epistle to the People of Antioch

Alexander of Cappadocia

I. An Epistle to the People of Antioch.

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Author: Alexander of Cappadocia

From the Epistles of Alexander.

I. An Epistle to the People of Antioch.

Alexander, a

servant

and

prisoner

of

Jesus

Christ

,

sends

greeting

in

the

Lord

to

the

blessed

church

of

Antioch

.

Easy

and

light

has

the

Lord

made

my

bonds

to

me

during

the

time

of

my

imprisonment

since

I

have

learned

that

in

the

providence

of

God

,

Asclepiades

—

who

,

in

regard

to

the

right

faith

,

is

most

eminently

qualified

for

the

office

—

has

undertaken

the

episcopate

of

your

holy

church

of

Antioch

.

And

this

epistle

,

my

brethren

and

masters

,

I

have

sent

by

the

hand

of

the

blessed

presbyter

Clement

,

a

man

virtuous

and

well

tried

,

whom

ye

know

already

,

and

will

know

yet

better

;

who

also

,

coming

here

by

the

providence

and

supervision

of

the

Master

,

has

strengthened

and

increased

the

Church

of

the

Lord

.

Notes

2
It was the opinion of Jerome in his Catalogusthat the Clement spoken of by Alexander was Clement of Alexandria. This Clement, at any rate, did live up to the time of the Emperor Severus, and sojourned in these parts, as he tells us himself in the first book of his Stromateis. And he was also the friend of bishop Alexander, to whom he dedicated his book On the Ecclesiastical Canon, or Against the Jews, as Eusebius states in his Eccles. Hist., book vi. ch. xiii. (Migne). [But from the third of these epistles one would certainly draw another inference. How could he, a pupil of Clement, describe and introduce his master in such terms as he uses here?]