Introduction.

1 Book VII.

2 Introduction.

3 In this seventh book of the Church History, the great bishop of Alexandria, Dionysius,²¹⁶⁰On Dionysius, see especially Bk. VI. chap. 40, note 1. shall again assist us by his own words; relating the several affairs of his time in the epistles which he has left. I will begin with them.