Clement of Rome-quite probably spoken of in Phil. 4:33And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlaborers, whose names are in the book of life. (Philippians 4:3)-was the author of an Epistle to the, Corinthians written, it would seem, towards the close of the first century, and comprised in a list of books of scripture furnished by the Codex Alexandrinus. In this letter we find " such a fusion of different points of apostolic teaching" as to warrant Westcott's assertion that " the church in which Clement lived welcomed the teaching not of one apostle only, nor of one group of books, but of all." Clement seems to have died soon after the apostle John.
IGNATIUS.
Ignatius of Antioch, in his Epistle to the Philadelphians, refers to the " Gospel " and the "Apostles.'' (Ver. 5.) He was martyred not later than A.D. 116. Dr. Lightfoot has, in the " Contemporary Review " for
February, 1875, examined very thoroughly the use made of Ignatius's Epistles by the writer of " Supernatural Religion."
POLYCARP.
Polycarp, " bishop of the Catholic Church at Smyrna," was the writer of an Epistle to the Philippians, which " abounds in references to the books of the New Testament," though not by name. This was written soon after the martyrdom of Ignatius. Of Polycarp it is said " He heard St. John, and was himself heard by Irenaeus. His testimony connects two ages." He died a martyr about A.D. 166.