(b) Sanchoniathon.] This Author was un∣known to all the Ancients. Porphyry is the first Man that cited this History, which is full of Fa∣bles and ridiculous Fictions. Whatever we there find concerning the Origine of the World, and the first Men, is taken out of Genesis. From thence he has borrowed the Word Bohu to signifie Night, and that of Colpia, which is given to the Wind; as for what he says of the Aeora, and of the First-born, it looks very like the Dreams of the Valen∣tinians. Lastly, he takes several things out of the Fables of the Greeks, which evidently shew, that the Author of this Book could not live in the time of Semiramis. [Mr. Dodwell has writ an English Discourse, to prove that this Book could not be older than Philo Byblius, who is said to Translate it out of the Phaenician Language.]
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.
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- 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.
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- Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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- Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.