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Letter VII — To Polycarp (II)

But see, whether it is well for thee to exchange the dwelling in the chasm, and with serpents, for that with God, and the good and philanthropic angels.” These are the things which I heard myself, and believe to be true.

TITUS.

ZENAS, one of the seventy-two disciples, who was versed in the science of law, wrote a life of Titus, and says that he was descended from the family of Minos, King of Crete. Titus gave himself to the study of Homer and Philosophy till his twentieth year, when he heard a voice from heaven, which told him to quit this place and save his soul. He waited one year, to test the truth of the voice, and then had a revelation which bade him read the Hebrew Scriptures. Opening Isaiah, his eye fell on chapter xli. vv 1-5. He was then sent to Jerusalem by the pro-consul of Crete to report upon the reality of the miracles said to be performed by Jesus Christ. He saw our Saviour, and His miracles, and believed; and became one of the seventy-two. He witnessed the Passion and Ascension; the Apostles consecrated him, and sent him with Paul, whom he attended to Antioch, to Seleucia and to Crete, where Rutilus, pro-consul, was baptized, and Titus appointed Bishop. In A.D. 64, St. Paul addressed his Epistle to Titus, and about the same time Dionysius also, this letter. Dexter records that Titus visited Spain, and that Pliny, the younger, was converted to the Faith by Titus. He consecrated the second Bishop of Alexandria, and died at the age of 94.

Footnotes 150:85 Num. xii. 3-8.

150:86 Ex. iv. 14.

150:87 Num. xvi. 1-11.

151:88 Matt. i. 1-16.

151:89 1Samuel 24:7, 1Samuel 13:14.

151:90 Ex. xxiii. 4.

151:91 Job i. 8.

151:92 Gen. l. 21.

151:93 1Corinthians 13:5.

151:94 Ps. xv. 3.

151:95 Rom. xii. 21.

151:96 Matt. v. 45.

151:97 Zech. i. 12.

152:98 Luke xv. 7.

152:99 Ps. xci. 11.

152:100 Matt. vi. 19.

152:101 Luke xxiii. 34.

152:102 Luke 15:20.

153:103 1John 2:10.

154:104 Matt. xii. 26.

154:105 Is. xxx. 18.

154:106 Ec. Hier. c. 6. part 2.

155:107 2Chronicles 26:16-19.

155:108 1Samuel 13:19.

156:109 Mark iii. 11.

156:110 Lev. xvi. 2.

156:111 Ex. xxx. 10.

156:112 Exodus 19:21.

156:113 Num. iv. 15.

156:114 Numbers 12:10.

156:115 Jer. xxiii. 21.

156:116 Is. xlvi. 3.

156:117 Matt. vii. 23.

156:118 Deut. xvi. 20.

156:119 1Timothy 4:16.

156:120 Rom. xii. 3-6.

157:121 Rom. ii. 23.

157:122 Mal. ii. 7.

157:123 Eph. iv. 18.

157:124 Acts xix. 2.

158:125 Deut. xvi. 20.

158:126 2Corinthians 13:10.

159:127 1Timothy 3:5.

160:128 Luke xvi. 10.

160:129 Jer. ii. 13-35.

160:130 Rom. i. 27.

163:131 2Timothy 4:13.

164:132 Rom. xi. 21.