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ΧΧΙV. Ταῦτα δ’ ἐκείνοις δέοι ἄν ἐπιθεῖναι ὡς ἐν μὲν τῷ ἕκτῳ τῶν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννη, ἐξηγητικῶν σημαίνει τὰ πρότερα πέντε ἐπ’ Ἀλεξαωδρείας ἔτ’ ὄντα αὐτὸν αυντάξαι, τῆς δ’ εἰς τὸ πᾶν εὐαγγέλιον αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο πραγματείας μόνω δύο καὶ εἴκοσι εἰς ἡμᾶς περιῆλθον τόμοι· κατὰ δὲ τὸ ἔνατον τῶν Εἰς τὴν Γένεσιν (δώδεκα δ’ τὰ πάντα) οὐ μόνον τοὺς πρὸ τοῦ ἐνάτου δῆλοι ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ὑπεμνηματίαθαι, καὶ εἰς τοὺς πρώτους δὲ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι Ψαλμοὺς ἔτι τε τὰ εἰς τοὺς Θρήνους, ὧν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐληλύθασι, τόμοι πέντε, ἐν οἷς μέμνηται καὶ τῶν Περὶ ἀναστάσεως· δύο δ’ ἐατὶν καὶ ταῦτα. οὐ μὴν ἀλλὸ καὶ τὰ Περὶ ἀρχῶν πρὸ τῆς ἀπ’ Ἀλεξανδρείας μεταναστάσεως γράφει, καὶ τοὺς ἐπιγεγραμμένους Στρωματεῖς, ὄντας τὸν ἀριθμὸν δέκα, ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως κατὰ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου συντάττε βασιλείαν, ὡς καὶ τοῦτο ὁλόγραφοι δηλοῦσιν αὐτοῦ πρὸ τῶν τόμων ἐπισημειώσεις.
XXIV. But to that information it is necessary to add that in the sixth of his Expositions on the [Gospel] according to John he indicates that he composed the first five while he was still at Alexandria; but of this work on the whole of the selfsame Gospel only twenty-two tomes have come our way. And [we must also state] that in the ninth of those On Genesis (there are twelve in all) he shows that not only were those before the ninth written at Alexandria, but also [his commentary] on the first twenty-five Psalms, and, as well, those on Lamentations, of which there have come to us five tomes. In these he mentions also those On the Resurrection, of which there are two. Moreover he wrote his De Principiis before his removal from Alexandria, and he composed the [books] entitled Stromateis, ten in number, in the same city in the reign of Alexander, as is shown by the annotations in his own hand in front of the tomes.