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Nor is this exposition advanced otherwise than as a quotation from St. Polycarp and others at Smyrna, to join their prayers withhis, that the cruelty of the wild beasts might quickly rid the world ofhim, that he might be presented before Jesus Christ. To refute the whole system of Arianism, he wrote the book which hecalled The Treasure, which he divided into thirty-five titles orsections. The miracle of his raising a deadman to life, at last opened the eyes of the barbarians, and the countrycame in crowds to receive baptism, destroying the temples of their idolswith their own hands.

1, contra Elipand. o hearconfessions; in which task he displayed a profound theological learning,which he had acquired solely at the foot of the cross. The people of Alexandria, famed for riots and tumults, then divided;some demanding the return of Dioscorus, others supporting Proterius. He is recorded by St.