Alexander of Cappadocia.

 Alexander of Cappadocia.

 From the Epistles of Alexander.

 From the Epistles of Alexander.

 Narcissus salutes you, who held the episcopate in this district before me, who is now also my colleague and competitor in prayer for you, and who, hav

 For this, as thou knowest, was the will of God, that the friendship subsisting between us from our forefathers should be maintained unbroken, yea rath

 And he —i.e., Demetrius in public speaking

 Note by the American Editor.

Alexander of Cappadocia.

Translator’s Biographical Notice.

[a.d. 170–233–251.] Alexander was at first bishop of a church in Cappadocia, but on his visiting Jerusalem he was appointed to the bishopric of the church there, while the previous bishop Narcissus was alive, in consequence of a vision which was believed to be divine.1 Euseb., Hist. Eccles., vi. 11. [Narcissus must have been born about a.d. 121. Might have known Polycarp.] During the Decian persecution he was thrown into prison at Cæsarea, and died there,2 Ibid., vi. 46. [Narcissus lived till a.d. 237, and died a martyr, aged 116.]a.d. 251. The only writings of his which we know are those from which the extracts are made.3 [He was a pupil of Pantænus, continued under Clement, and defended Origen against the severity of Demetrius. Two dates which are conjectural are adjusted to these facts. I find it difficult to reconcile them with those implied by Eusebius.]