Note 3 — Chapter XII · IN THEIR PROPER REPOSITORIES.

One other correction should be made. Judge Waite arbitrarily assigns Cerinthus to the year 145. He gives no reason or authority for it. It is the testimony of all antiquity that Cerinthus was contemporary with the Apostle John, and that John died about the year 100. Irenæus, upon the authority of Polycarp, says that John, being about to enter a bath and finding Cerinthus within, drew back saying: “Let us even be gone lest the bath should fall to pieces,—Cerinthus, that enemy of the truth, being within.” See Vol. II., Encyclopedia of McClintock and Strong, p. 190.