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of the apostles, the shunning of the envied woman, and continence from coveted pleasures taught to misuse the flesh. For, I think, he did not wish according to the command of the savior 3.29.4 to serve two masters, pleasure and the Lord. They say, therefore, that Matthias also taught thus, to fight the flesh and misuse it, yielding nothing to it for pleasure, but to augment the soul through faith and knowledge.” Let these things, therefore, be said concerning those who, in the times indicated, attempted to corrupt the truth, but who, quicker than speech, were utterly extinguished; 3.30.1 But Clement, whose words we have just read, next after the foregoing, on account of those who reject marriage, catalogues those of the apostles who are ascertained to have been in the married state, saying: “Or will they reject the apostles too? For Peter and Philip begat children; and Philip also gave his daughters in marriage. And Paul does not hesitate in one of his epistles to address his wife, whom he did not take about with him, for the sake of the convenience of his ministry.” 3.30.2 And since we have mentioned these things, it will not be amiss to quote another story from the same author that is worth telling, which he recorded in the seventh book of his Stromata, relating it in the following manner: “They say, indeed, that the blessed Peter, on seeing his own wife led away to death, rejoiced on account of her call and her return home, and called to her very exhortingly and comfortingly, addressing her by name: ‘Remember, O thou, the Lord.’ Such was the marriage of the blessed, and their perfect disposition toward those dearest to them.” And let these things, being pertinent to the subject in hand, be opportunely placed here by me. 3.31.1 Now, of the death of Paul and Peter, both the time and the manner, and furthermore the place of the deposition of their tabernacles after their departure from life, has already been shown by us previously; but of John, something of his time has already been said, 3.31.2 but the place of his tabernacle is shown from a letter of Polycrates (he was bishop of the parish in Ephesus), which, writing to Victor, bishop of the Romans, he mentions both him and Philip the apostle and his daughters, in this way: 3.31.3 “For in Asia also great lights have fallen asleep, which shall rise again on the last day of the coming of the Lord, in which he comes with glory from heaven and will seek out all the saints, Philip, one of the twelve apostles, who has fallen asleep in Hierapolis, and two of his daughters who grew old as virgins, and his other daughter, having lived her life in the Holy Spirit, rests in Ephesus. And moreover John, who leaned on the Lord's breast, who became a priest wearing the petalon, and a martyr and a teacher, he has fallen asleep in Ephesus.” 3.31.4 So much for their death. And in the dialogue of Gaius, whom we mentioned a little before, Proclus, with whom he was carrying on the dispute, concerning the death of Philip and his daughters, agreeing with what has been stated, says thus: “After him there were four prophetesses, the daughters of Philip, in Hierapolis in Asia. Their tomb is there, and that of their father.” 3.31.5 So he says. But Luke in the Acts of the Apostles mentions the daughters of Philip as staying at that time in Caesarea of Judea with their father, and as having been deemed worthy of the prophetic gift, speaking word for word thus: “we came to Caesarea, and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode with him. Now this man 3.31.6 had four virgin daughters, who prophesied.” Having in these sections set forth what has come to our knowledge concerning both the apostles and the apostolic times, both what sacred writings they have left us, and what are disputed but nevertheless have been used publicly by many in most churches, and what are altogether spurious and alien to the apostolic orthodoxy, on to what follows

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ἀποστόλων τῆς ζηλοτυπουμένης ἐκκύκλησις γυναικός, καὶ ἡ ἐγκράτεια τῶν περισπουδάστων ἡδονῶν τὸ παραχρᾶσθαι τῇ σαρκὶ ἐδίδασκεν. οὐ γάρ, οἶμαι, ἐβούλετο κατὰ τὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐντολὴν δυσὶ κυρίοις 3.29.4 δουλεύειν, ἡδονῇ καὶ κυρίῳ. λέγουσι δ' οὖν καὶ τὸν Ματθίαν οὕτω διδάξαι, σαρκὶ μὲν μάχεσθαι καὶ παραχρᾶσθαι μηδὲν αὐτῇ πρὸς ἡδονὴν ἐνδιδόντα, ψυχῆν δὲ αὔξειν διὰ πίστεως καὶ γνώσεως». ταῦτα μὲν οὖν περὶ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς δηλουμένους χρόνους παραβραβεῦσαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐγκεχειρηκότων, λόγου γε μὴν θᾶττον εἰς τὸ παντελὲς ἀπεσβηκότων εἰρήσθω· 3.30.1 ὁ μέντοι Κλήμης, οὗ τὰς φωνὰς ἀρτίως ἀνέγνωμεν, τοῖς προειρημένοις ἑξῆς διὰ τοὺς ἀθετοῦντας τὸν γάμον τοὺς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐξετασθέντας ἐν συζυγίαις καταλέγει, φάσκων· «ἢ καὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἀποδοκιμάσουσιν; Πέτρος μὲν γὰρ καὶ Φίλιππος ἐπαιδοποιήσαντο, Φίλιππος δὲ καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας ἀνδράσιν ἐξέδωκεν, καὶ ὅ γε Παῦλος οὐκ ὀκνεῖ ἔν τινι ἐπιστολῇ τὴν αὐτοῦ προσαγορεῦσαι σύζυγον, ἣν οὐ περιεκόμιζεν διὰ τὸ τῆς ὑπηρεσίας εὐσταλές». 3.30.2 ἐπεὶ δὲ τούτων ἐμνήσθημεν, οὐ λυπεῖ καὶ ἄλλην ἀξιοδιήγητον ἱστορίαν τοῦ αὐτοῦ παραθέσθαι, ἣν ἐν τῷ ἑβδόμῳ Στρωματεῖ τοῦτον ἱστορῶν ἀνέγραψεν τὸν τρόπον· «φασὶ γοῦν τὸν μακάριον Πέτρον θεασάμενον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἀπαγομένην τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ, ἡσθῆναι μὲν τῆς κλήσεως χάριν καὶ τῆς εἰς οἶκον ἀνακομιδῆς, ἐπιφωνῆσαι δὲ εὖ μάλα προτρεπτικῶς καὶ παρακλητικῶς, ἐξ ὀνόματος προσειπόντα· μέμνησο, ὦ αὕτη, τοῦ κυρίου. τοιοῦτος ἦν ὁ τῶν μακαρίων γάμος καὶ ἡ τῶν φιλτάτων τελεία διάθεσις». καὶ ταῦτα δ', οἰκεῖα ὄντα τῇ μετὰ χεῖρας ὑποθέσει, ἐνταῦθά μοι κατὰ καιρὸν κείσθω. 3.31.1 Παύλου μὲν οὖν καὶ Πέτρου τῆς τελευτῆς ὅ τε χρόνος καὶ ὁ τρόπος καὶ πρὸς ἔτι τῆς μετὰ τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν τοῦ βίου τῶν σκηνωμάτων αὐτῶν καταθέσεως ὁ χῶρος ἤδη πρότερον ἡμῖν δεδήλωται· τοῦ δὲ Ἰωάννου τὰ μὲν τοῦ χρόνου ἤδη πως εἴρηται, 3.31.2 τὸ δέ γε τοῦ σκηνώματος αὐτοῦ χωρίον ἐξ ἐπιστολῆς Πολυκράτους τῆς δ' ἐν Ἐφέσῳ παροικίας ἐπίσκοπος οὗτος ἦν ἐπιδείκνυται, ἣν Οὐίκτορι Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκόπῳ γράφων, ὁμοῦ τε αὐτοῦ καὶ Φιλίππου μνημονεύει τοῦ ἀποστόλου τῶν τε τούτου θυγατέρων ὧδέ πως· 3.31.3 «καὶ γὰρ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν μεγάλα στοιχεῖα κεκοίμηται· ἅτινα ἀναστήσεται τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ κυρίου, ἐν ᾗ ἔρχεται μετὰ δόξης ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀναζητήσει πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους, Φίλιππον τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων, ὃς κεκοίμηται ἐν Ἱεραπόλει καὶ δύο θυγατέρες αὐτοῦ γεγηρακυῖαι παρθένοι καὶ ἡ ἑτέρα αὐτοῦ θυγάτηρ ἐν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι πολιτευσαμένη ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἀναπαύεται· ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ἰωάννης, ὁ ἐπὶ τὸ στῆθος τοῦ κυρίου ἀναπεσών, ὃς ἐγενήθη ἱερεὺς τὸ πέταλον πεφορεκὼς καὶ μάρτυς καὶ διδάσκαλος, οὗτος ἐν Ἐφέσῳ κεκοίμηται». 3.31.4 ταῦτα καὶ περὶ τῆς τῶνδε τελευτῆς· καὶ ἐν τῷ Γαΐου δέ, οὗ μικρῷ πρόσθεν ἐμνήσθημεν, διαλόγῳ Πρόκλος, πρὸς ὃν ἐποιεῖτο τὴν ζήτησιν, περὶ τῆς Φιλίππου καὶ τῶν θυγατέρων αὐτοῦ τελευτῆς, συνᾴδων τοῖς ἐκτεθεῖσιν, οὕτω φησίν· «μετὰ τοῦτον προφήτιδες τέσσαρες αἱ Φιλίππου γεγένηνται ἐν Ἱεραπόλει τῇ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν· ὁ τάφος αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἐκεῖ καὶ ὁ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν». 3.31.5 ταῦτα μὲν οὗτος· ὁ δὲ Λουκᾶς ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων τῶν Φιλίππου θυγατέρων ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἅμα τῷ πατρὶ τότε διατριβουσῶν προφητικοῦ τε χαρίσματος ἠξιωμένων μνημονεύει, κατὰ λέξιν ὧδέ πως λέγων· «ἤλθομεν εἰς Καισάρειαν, καὶ εἰσελθόντες εἰς τὸν οἶκον Φιλίππου τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ, ὄντος ἐκ τῶν ἑπτά, ἐμείναμεν παρ' αὐτῷ. τούτῳ δὲ 3.31.6 ἦσαν παρθένοι θυγατέρες τέσσαρες προφητεύουσαι.» τὰ μὲν οὖν εἰς ἡμετέραν ἐλθόντα γνῶσιν περί τε τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν ἀποστολικῶν χρόνων ὧν τε καταλελοίπασιν ἡμῖν ἱερῶν γραμμάτων καὶ τῶν ἀντιλεγομένων μέν, ὅμως δ' ἐν πλείσταις ἐκκλησίαις παρὰ πολλοῖς δεδημοσιευμένων τῶν τε παντελῶς νόθων καὶ τῆς ἀποστολικῆς ὀρθοδοξίας ἀλλοτρίων ἐν τούτοις διειληφότες, ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἑξῆς