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the truth in the Scriptures through interpretation, he separated them from one another and commanded them all to write the same interpretation, and he did this for all the books. 5.8.14 But when they came together in the same place in the presence of Ptolemy, and each compared his own interpretation, God was glorified, and the Scriptures were truly recognized as divine, for all of them had rendered the same things in the same words and with the same names from beginning to end, so that even the Gentiles present knew that the Scriptures had been interpreted by the inspiration of God. 5.8.15 And it is no wonder that God did this, for when the Scriptures had been corrupted during the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, and seventy years later the Jews had returned to their own land, then in the time of Artaxerxes the king of the Persians He inspired Esdras the priest of the tribe of Levi to arrange all the words of the former prophets and to restore to the people the law given through Moses.” So much from Irenaeus. 5.9.1 When Antoninus had reigned for nineteen years, Commodus took over the rule. In his first year, Julian was entrusted with the episcopate of the churches in Alexandria, after Agrippinus had completed his ministry of twelve years. At that time there presided over the school of the faithful there a man most renowned for his learning, whose name was Pantaenus; for from ancient custom a school of sacred learning was established among them. This has continued to our day and we have heard that it was organized by men powerful in word and in zeal for divine things. But it is reported that the one mentioned was especially distinguished at that time, as he had come from the philosophical school of those called Stoics. 5.10.2 They say that he showed such zeal for the divine word with a most ardent disposition, that he was appointed a herald of the gospel of Christ to the nations of the East, and was sent as far as the land of the Indians. For there were, yes, there were at that time still many evangelists of the word, who were zealous to contribute with a divinely-inspired zeal, in imitation of the apostles, for the increase and building up of the divine word. 5.10.3 Pantaenus was one of these, and is said to have gone to India, where report says that he found that the Gospel according to Matthew had preceded his arrival among some there who had come to know Christ, to whom Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached and had left them the writing of Matthew in Hebrew characters, which was also preserved until the said time. 5.10.4 Pantaenus, after many achievements, at last presided over the school at Alexandria, expounding the treasures of divine doctrines both by living voice and by his writings. 5.11.1 At this time, Clement, a man versed in the divine Scriptures, was well-known in Alexandria, the namesake of the former leader of the Roman church, a disciple of the apostles; 5.11.2 who indeed by name in the Hypotyposes which he composed mentions Pantaenus as his teacher, and seems to me to allude to this same man in the first book of the Stromata, when, after marking out the most distinguished of the apostolic succession which he had received, he says these things: 5.11.3 “Now this treatise is not a writing artistically crafted for display, but notes are treasured up by me for my old age, a remedy for forgetfulness, a simple image and a sketch of those clear and living words which I was privileged to hear, and of blessed and truly remarkable men. 5.11.4 Of these, one was in Greece, the Ionian; another in Magna Graecia; one of them was from Coele-Syria, and the other from Egypt, and others throughout the East, and of this part one was from the Assyrians, and the other in Palestine, a Hebrew from the beginning. Having met with the last (who was in power indeed the first), I found rest, having hunted him down where he was hidden in Egypt. 5.11.5 But they indeed

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