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.

(qq) 'Tis not certainly known at what time Joel prophesied.] Huetius pretends, that he prophesied after the Captivity of the ten Tribes, because it is said, chap. 3. v. 2. that they have scattered the Peo∣ple of Israel amongst the Nations. But why might not he speak of a future thing, as if it were already done? He likewise says, that there is not a word spoken of the Kingdom of Israel in the whole Prophecy, but this is not certain. Those persons that say he prophesied before Amos ground them∣selves principally upon his prediction of a Fa∣mine towards the end of the first Chapter, where∣of Amos speaks as of a thing already past in the 4th Chapter of his Prophecy. But Huetius thinks, that these are two several Famines, that the Fa∣mine mentioned in Amos happened naturally, whereas the other, which Joel foretold, was to be occasioned by the incursions of Enemies.