but this story might have been the consequence, rather than the cause, of the name attached to the letter. Possibly its author was some unknown namesake of the ‘Son of Consolation.’ That Alexandria, the place of its earliest reception, was also the place of its birth, is borne out by the internal evidence of style and interpretation, which is Alexandrian throughout. The picture too which it presents of feuds between Jews and Christians is in keeping with the state of the population of that city,