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DonoTHEus. 159
lected it appears that a great part of his time and labour was
employed in studying- and interpreting- the scriptures; and
it may be supposed tliat liis canon was the same as that of
Origen, or very little different.
Pierius is placed by Cave at the year 283: some may
be apt to think he should have been put lower; but it is
likely that learned writer supposed Pierius was made presbyter
in the begiiuiing- of the episcopate of Theonas. Moreover,
Jerom spoke of Pierius as flourishing- in the reign of
Carus.
CHAP, LV.
I. Dorothejfs, presbyter of Andoch. II. Dorotheus, autlior
of the Synopsis of the life of the prophets, and of the
aj)ostles and disciples of Christ.
I. SAYS Eusebius, in his Ecclesiastical History, ' About
' this time Timteus succeeded Domnus in the episcopate of
' the church of Antioch, whom Cyril succeeded within our
' memory. In^ his time was Dorotheus, presbyter of the
' church of Antioch, a learned man whom he knew. He
' was very studious in the sacred scriptures, and acquainted
' himself so far with Hebrew, as to be able to read the ancient
' scriptures in their own language with understanding- : he
' was a man of a liberal mind, [or was extremely Avell edu-
' cated, or perhaps was a man of high birth,] and was not
' unskilled in Greek literature : but he was an eunuch from
' his birth : this being- an extraordinary thin^, the emperor
' took notice of him, and made him overseer of the purple
' dye-house at Tyre. We'' have heard this person expound
' the scriptures indifferently well. Cyril was succeeded in
' the episcopate of Antioch by Tyrannus.'
I have transcribed this passage after this manner witli the
connexion, that we might the better perceive the time of
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K. X. Eus. I. vii. cap. 32. in. p. 284. B. C.
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ib. C.