Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net TRANSLATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SERIES I GREEK TEXTS ST. DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA TRANSLATION OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE. SERIES I GREEK TEXTS ST. DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA LETTERS AND TREATISES _By_ CHARLES LETT FELTOE, D.D. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. London The Macmillan Company. New York PREFACE Not long after my edition of this Father’s writings appeared in the _Cambridge Patristic Texts_ (1904), I was invited to translate the Letters and some of the other more certainly genuine fragments that remain into English for the present series; but it is not until now that I have been able to accomplish the task I then undertook. Since then, though chiefly occupied in other researches, I have naturally acquired a more extensive and accurate knowledge of St. Dionysius and his times, some of the results of which will be found in this volume. Nevertheless, I was bound to incorporate a considerable amount of the information and conclusions arrived at in the former work, and wish to express my acknowledgments to the Syndics of the University Press for leave to do so, as well as to those again whose names I mentioned as having assisted me before. In the present book Dr. A. J. Mason was kind enough to advise me over the choice of extracts from the two treatises, _On Nature_ and _Refutation and Defence_, and on one or two minor points, while a friend and neighbour (the Rev. L. Patterson) read through the whole of the MS. before it went to the printer and gave me the benefit of a fresh mind upon a number of small details of style and fact, for which I sincerely thank him. C. L. Feltoe. _Ripple by Dover_ _March 1918._ CONTENTS