A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

SIMEON STYLITES.

IT is commonly thought, that this Famous and Admirable Monk of Antiquity, who lived 56 Years on the top of a Pillar, whose Extraordinary Life hath been written by [Antonius, * 1.1 it is extant in Bibl. Patr. Tom. 1.] one of his own Scholars, and by Theodoret, is the Author of a small discourse concerning Death, which is in Latin in the Biblioth. Patr. Others at∣tribute it, and that more probably, to another Simeon Stylites, who lived under Justinian, one of whose Letters is cited in the Fifth Action of the II. Council of Nice. But however that be, This discourse is a very little thing. He represents in it the state of the Soul after its se∣paration from the Body, and describes after what manner the Angels conduct it to Glory, if it be Adorned with Vertues; and how it is receiv'd by the Devils, if it be full of Vices. The Ancient Simeon Stylites wrote some Letters [to Theodosius, to Leo, to Eudoxia, to Basil Bishop of Antioch,] about the affairs of the Church.

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• * 1.1

  Simeon Stylites.