109. See Jerome ad Titum, c. i. and Epistol. 85 (in the
Benedictine edition, 101) [Ep. 146, ed. Vallars. tom. i. p.
1074], and the elaborate apology of Blondel, pro sententia
Hieronymi. The ancient state, as it is described by Jerome,
of the bishop and presbyters of Alexandria, receives a
remarkable confirmation from the patriarch Eutychius (Annal.
tom. i. p. 330, Vers. Pocock); whose testimony I know not
how to reject, in spite of all the objections of the learned
Pearson in his Vindiciae Ignatianae, part i. c. 11.