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.

(g) The Chaldee Paraphras•••• which we have seen to be of a l••ter date.] The C••••ldee Para∣phrase is divided into three Parts▪ The first, that contains the Pentateuch, is attributed to O••kelos; the second, that contains the Prophets, to Jona∣than; the third, to one Josephus the blind. There is likewise another Paraphrase of the Pentateuch, called that of Jerusalem, and another of the Can∣ticles; but all these Paraphrases are imperfect, as well as new. Since that time the Jews having committed to writing abundance of Traditions in a Book which they call Misna, they afterwards composed Commentaries upon it, whereof the most celebrated is called the G••mera. But all these Books are full of ridiculous foolish Fictions, and have nothing common with the Scripture; The Masora, that is, a sort of a Critical Perfor∣mance upon the Bible, is of more use and advan∣tage. The Follies and Whimsies of the Cabala are impertinent and impious.