LUCIUS CHARINUS.
THis Author wrote a Book, entituled, The Travels of the Apostles, containing the Actions of St. Peter, St. John, St. Andrew, St. Thomas, and St. Paul, whose style and relation do equally deserve con∣tempt, * 1.1 in the Judgment of Photius, Code 144. His Style was unequal, his Words vulgar, and his Discourse very remote from the native candor and simplicity of Apostolical Relations. He was full of Stories stuff'd with folly and impiety. He seigns that the God of the Jews was a God of wickedness, to whom Simon the Magician was a Minister; That on the contrary, Christ is a God of Goodness. He gives him some times the Title of Father, some times that of Son. He ima∣gines that he was not truly made Man, but only in appearance. He says that he appear'd to his Disciples under different shapes, sometimes as an old Man, sometimes as a young Man, sometimes as an Infant, sometimes great and sometimes little, sometimes as high as Heaven, and sometimes creeping upon the Earth. He vents many fooleries concerning the Cross, and affirms, that ano∣ther was crucified for Jesus Christ. He condemns Marriage, and looks upon Generation as the Work of the Devil. He reckons up several Resurrections of Men, of Oxen, &c. He seems to blame the use of Images, as did the Iconoclasts. In a word, says Photius, the whole Book contains nothing but things childish and prodigious, malicious Fables, Falsities, Follies, Contradictions, and Impieties, insomuch that one may say, without deviating from the Truth, that this Book is the origine and sourse of all Heresies. He should rather have call'd it a Collection of the Follies and Impieties of the Ancient Hereticks.