A.D. 126. MASK APPOINTED BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. 159 languages, and built a library at Athene, which was a wonderful building. A.D. 120. Alexander succeeded pope Evaristus, and ruled eighteen years, five months, and two days. He appointed the words of the Lord about the bread and wine to be recited in the canon, and ordered holy water to be sprinkled in the habitations of men. A.D. 121. The emperor Adrian was taught and instructed in the books composed on the subject of the Christian religion, by Quadratus, a disciple of the apostles, and Aristides an Athenian, a man full of faith and wisdom, and by Serenus, his lieutenant. On which account, in a letter addressed to the proconsul of Asia, he enjoined that no one should be allowed to condemn the Christians without accusing them of some crime, and proving it. A.D. 122. The emperor Adrian crushed, with tremendous slaughter, the Jews who had rebelled and were laying waste Palestine, which had formerly been their own province, and he avenged the Christians. A.D. 123. iElius Adrian rebuilt Jerusalem, and ordered it to be called JSlia, after his own name. He ordered, also, that no Jew should be allowed to enter it, as the city was only open to the Christians. A.D. 124. Coillus, king of the Britons, died, and Lucius, his son, was invested with the crown. He followed all the acts of goodness of his father, and was esteemed by all men as Coillus himself had been. A.D. 125. Mark was appointed bishop of Jerusalem, being the first of the Gentiles who ever was so, as all those were now dead who had been bishops from the time of the Passion of our Lord to the present moment For the first bishop of Jerusalem was James, the brother of our Lord. The second was Simon, the son of Cleophas. The third, Justus ; the fourth, Zaccheus ; the fifth, Tobias ; the sixth, Benjamin ; the seventh, John ; the eighth, Matthias ; the ninth, Philip ; the tenth, Seneca; the eleventh, Justus; the twelfth, Levi; the thirteenth, Ephraim; the fourteenth, Joseph; the fifteenth and last, Judas. A.D. 126. Aquila the orator, a man of Pontus both by birth and extraction, flourished ; and he was the first translator of the divine law since the seventy translators.