PREFACE TO THE “DIVINE NAMES.”

Epistle to the Colossians, Chap. I. v. 23 (original: τοῦ κηρυχθέντος ἐν πάσῃ κτίσει—preached in all creation), and with such success among the most learned and noble, that, but for the cruel massacre of Flavius Clemens A Roman consul and relative of the Emperor Domitian, executed in A.D. 95 for "atheism," widely interpreted by early Christians as his conversion to Christianity. and his family for the Christian faith, there would have been a Christian Emperor in the first century. As Jesus said, “Ye shall be witnesses of Me unto the uttermost parts of the earth” (Acts Chap. I. v. 8), so the Apostles planted the Church of Christ in Gaul, Spain, and Britain, with its threefold ministry; and by the end of the second century, there was an organized Church throughout each of those territories.

Dr. Schneider informs me “that in Germany they now admit that the external proofs are in favor of the genuineness of Dionysius, but they confine themselves to the internal proofs. They pretend that the doctrine is too clear and precise to have been written in the apostolic age.”

How could the chief Areopagite A member of the Council of the Areopagus in Athens; Dionysius was converted by St. Paul in Athens, as recorded in Acts 17:34., the convert and companion of St. Paul, and the familiar friend of St. John the Theologian, have understood theology!!