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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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- 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 17, 2024.
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MALCHION.
MALCHION, a very Eloquent Man, was, after he had taught the prophane Sciences with a great deal of Reputation in the City of Antioch, ordained Presbyter of that Church, for the Purity of his Faith and his Doctrine. He had a famous Dispute against Paulus Samosatenus in the Second Council of Antioch, held in the Year 270. in which, after he had clearly discovered the Errours which that Heretick endeavoured to conceal, he prevailed with the Council to condemn him. This Conference was taken in Writing by some Notaries, and was extant not only in the time of Euse∣bius and St. Jerome, who mention it, but also in the time of Leontius; that is to say, towards the end
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of the Sixth Century: He speaks of it in his First Book against the Nestorians, and recites some Frag∣ments of it in the Third Book. However it is not certain that they are genuine, any more than the * 1.1 Fragments of another Letter of the Council of Antioch, mentioned by Eusebius. St. Jerome tells us, that he was likewise Author of a Letter written in the Name of that Council, against Paulus Samosatenus, and spoken of by Eusebius in the Seventh Book of his History, Chap. 30.