Of true and false Teachers.

it is taught. Therefore, from that time when Christ, ascending on high, gave this excellent office of Teachers together with other gifts, as the Apostle says, as a most high benefit to men, To Ephesians 4. there exists no older memory in the Holy Scriptures of the Church than the memory of the Teachers of the Church: so much so that the blessed Luke has diligently recorded in the Acts of the Apostles by name who the Teachers were in the beginning of the Church. There were (he says) in the Church that was at Antioch (where indeed the faithful were first called Christians) Prophets and Teachers. Among whom were Barnabas and Simon, who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. And likewise in the Alexandrian Church, from the times of Mark the Apostle and Evangelist, there have been certain appointed Teachers in the Ecclesiastical School, the chief of whom, following the Apostles, was Pantaenus, formerly a noble philosopher, whom those who followed in that office were Clement of Alexandria, the disciple of Pantaenus, and Origen, the disciple of Clement, and then Heracles, Dionysius, Theonas, and others; Jerome and Jerome in the Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers; Eusebius, book [not explicitly numbered in text, likely refers to Church History] Eusebius and even Clement of Alexandria himself are the authors. This Alexandrian [Clement] commends the letters and learning of that Pantaenus so much that he easily prefers him to the rest of the teachers to whom he himself had once devoted his efforts. "When I came upon this instructor," he says, "I rested in Egypt."