A compleat history of the canon and writers, of the books of the Old and New Testament, by way of dissertation, with useful remarks on that subject ... by L.E. Du Pin ... ; done into English from the French original.

A Table of the Principal Matters contain'd in this second Volume.

A.

• ABdias, a suppositious Author of the Lives of the Apostles, 149
• Abraham, an Apocalypse father'd upon him, 130
• Acts of the Apostles. Of the Canonical Books of the Acts of the Apostles, 53. Of the false Acts of the Apostles, 128. Of the false Acts of the Passion of St. Andrew, 149
• Adultery; The History of the Woman taken in Adultery, related in Saint John's Gospel. Of the Antiquity and Genuineness of that History, 51
• Agbarus King of Edessa; converted to Christianity, 121. Whether this History be Genuine or not ibid. The Letters of Agbarus to Jesus Christ, and of Jesus Christ to Agba∣rus, spurious. ibid. The Picture of Jesus Christ sent to Agbarus, a feign'd story, 122
• Allegory, In use among the Jews and primitive Christians, 132
• Amelot, Dionysius, a Priest of the Ora∣tory: Of the Collection which he made of the various Readings of the New Testament in Greek, confor∣mable to the Vulgar, 103
• Saint Andrew, false Acts of his Passion, 149
• Anglo-Saxon, A Version of the New Testament into that Language, 118
• Apocalypse, Vid. Revelation.
• Apollinarius, the Spurious History at∣tributed to him, 150
• Apostles; Why chosen by Jesus Christ. 2. How instructed in the Truths of Religion. 3. After what manner they publish'd them. ibid. That no question but that they were acquain∣ted with and declar'd all the Truths which Jesus Christ had revealed to them. ibid. That they were neither deceiv'd nor Deceivers. 9. That they were divinely inspir'd. 12. Of the Apostle's Creed. 135. Of their Canons. 144, &c. Of the Constitu∣tions attributed to them. ibid. Of the Acts of the Apostles. 53. Of the false Acts of the Apostles. 128. False Liturgies attributed to the Apostles; 133
• Arabick, Versions of the New Testa∣ment into that Language. 118
• Arias Montanus. Of his Latin Version of the New Testament. 117
• Armenian, A Version of the New Te∣stament into the Armenian Tongue. 118

B.

• BAptism of Jesus Christ. The Addi∣tion to the Account of it made in St. Matthew's Gospel, 34, 37
• Saint Barnabas, Of the Name of that Apostle, 130. Author of the Epistle which goes under his Name, 131. Whether it be Canonical or not, 133. The subject of that Epistle. ibid. The several Editions of that Epistle, ibid.
• Saint Bartholomew, The Gospel attri∣buted to him, 126
• Berosus, Of the true and false Berosus, 171
• Beza, Theodore, His Edition of the New Testament with some Alterations. 102. of his Version of the New Te∣stament, 117
• Books of the New Testament; The Au∣thority of them. 4. Proofs of their Authority. 5. That these Books are theirs under whose names they are inscribed. ibid. That they have not been corrupted, 7. That they are not Fictitious or Fabulous. 8. Of the Canon of the Books of the New Testament. 16. Of the Division of those Books into Titles, Chapters, Sections and Verses, 119

C.

• CAius, to whom the third Epistle of Saint John is directed, 77
• Canon, Of the Canon of the Books of the New Testament, how drawn up, 16. Of the different Classes or Or∣ders of the Canonical and Apocry∣phal Books of the New Testament. 17. What Books were compris'd in the Ancient Canons of the Books of the New Testament. ibid. How the Church came to admit those Books into the Canon which were doubted of at first. 18. What Qualifications are requisite in order to render a Book Canonical. 131
• Canons of the Apostles. The Opini∣ons of Authors about them, 144. That they are not the Apostles, 144 tho' Ancient, 145. Nine other Ca∣nons attributed to the Apostles, which are spurious, 148
• Caryophila, Matthew, His Collection of the various Lections of the Greek Text of the New Testament, 102
• Castalio, Sebastian: His Version of the New Testament, 117
• Catholick Epistles, why so call'd, 69. why likewise styl'd Canonical. ibid. The number of them. ibid. Of the Pre∣face to these Epistles. ibid. Of the Order of these Epistles. ibid. The subject matter of them. 70
• Chapters, the Division of the New Te∣stament into Chapters, 119
• Saint Clemens Romanus; the spurious Author of the History of Saint Cle∣ment, 150
• Colossians; the Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians when written, 61. The sub∣ject matter of that Epistle. ibid.
• Constitutions of the Apostles; That they were not compos'd by the Apostles, but are supposititious, 148
• Coptic: Versions of the New Testa∣ment into that Language, 118
• Corinthians, of the two Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians, 57. The first from whence and when written, 57. The occasion of that Epistle. 58. The subject matter of it. ibid. Whether there was any other Epistle written before by Saint Paul to the Corinthi∣ans, ibid. Of the second Epistle to the Corinthians when written, 58. The subject matter of that Epistle, ibid.
• Creed of the Apostles. The several Opi∣nions about it. 135. Why so call'd. 136. In what Sense it may be said to be the Apostles Creed, 142. The differences of four Ancient Creeds represented in a Table, 143

D.

• DIonysius of Alexandria: His Opi∣nion concerning the Apocalypse or Revelation, 82
• Division of the New Testament into Ti∣tles, Chapters and Verses, when and by whom made, 119, &c.
• Dorothaeus, the false Dorothaeus, 171

E.

• ELecte. A Christian Lady to whom St. John directs his second Epistle, 77
• Egyptians, what the Ancients have said concerning the Gospel according to the Egyptians, 123
• Enoch, the Book of Enoch cited in Saint Jude's Epistle, 80, 81
• Ephesians, St. Paul's Epistle to them, when and whence written, and up∣on what occasion. 59, 60. Intitled by some the Epistle to the Laodiceans. 60. The subject matter of that Epi∣stle, ibid.
• Erasmus, What he did in collating the Greek Manuscripts of the New Te∣stament. 102. His Latin Version of the New Testament, 116
• Ethiopick, Versions of the New Testa∣ment into that Language, 118
• Eve, of the Gospel of Eve forg'd by the Gnosticks, 126
• Eusebius, The first Author of the Secti∣ons of the Gospels, 119. Not alto∣gether exact in his Citations of Jo∣sephus, 167

F.

• LE Fevre de la Boderie, of his Editi∣ons of the Bible in the Oriental Languages, 118
• Le Fevre d'Estaples, James, of his Versi∣on of the Epistles of St. Paul, 116

G.

• GAlatians, St. Paul's Epistle to them, when and from whence written, and upon what occasion. 59. The subject matter of that Epistle, ibid.
• Genealogy of Jesus Christ: regulated in the Gospel of St. Luke, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew in the Cambridge Manuscript, 47
• Gospel. The meaning of it, 21. Why 'tis said the Gospel according to, and not the Gospel of such or such an one, 22. That the Church never admitted above four Canonical Gospels, 24. Who the Persons are that undertook to write it, of whom mention is made by St. Luke. 22, 23. Of the Ancient Gospels, 22. Mysteries and Allegories about the Number of the four Evangelists, 24. That the num∣ber of the Evangelists serves to de∣monstrate the Truth of the Gospel. ibid. The Symbols of the four E∣vangelists. 25. Why of the four E∣vangelists two of them were Apostles and Eye-Witnesses of the matters of Fact, and two others the Disciples of the Apostles, 25. Of the seeming Contrarieties between the Accounts of the Evangelists. ibid. Of the Or∣der of the Gospels. 26. Of St. Mat∣thew's Gospel, 26. And of the Gos∣pel of the Nazarenes, 31, &c. Of St. Mark's Gospel, 40, &c. of Saint Luke's Gospel. 44. &c. Of St. John's Gospel. 48. &c. Of the Gospel ac∣cording to the Egyptians, of St. James and Nieodemus. 123, 124. Of the false Gospels forg'd by Hereticks, 125, &c.
• Greek Manuscripts, and Greek Text, see Manuscripts and Text.
• Vulgar Greek. The Version of the New Testament into Vulgar Greek, 118

H.

• HEbrews. The Epistle to the He∣brews; whether it be St. Paul's. 64. Proofs that it is His, 66. Why St. Paul did not set his Name before it. 64. The Opinions of the Anci∣ents concerning this Epistle. 64, &c. To whom directed, 68. From whence and when written. ibid. The Design and subject matter of it. ibid. The Excellency of this Epistle, ibid.
• Hellenists, who they are, 114. Of the Hellenistical Language. ibid.
• Hystaspes. Of the Treatise that goes under his Name, 161

J.

• JAmes the Brother of our Lord, not the same with St. James the Son of Zebedee. 70. Sirnam'd the Lesser and the Just. ibid. Whose Son he was, and whether he be not the same with the Apostle Son of Alpheus, ibid. The Author of the Catholick Epistle, ibid. To whom this Epistle was di∣rected, 47. What it contains, ibid. Of his Style, ibid. By whom of the Ancients 'tis cited, ibid. Of the Pro∣to-Evangelium of St. James, 126. A spurious Liturgy attributed to him, 134
• Jesus Christ. Of the Addition to the History of his Baptism in St. Mat∣thew's Gospel. 34, 37. Of the Histo∣ry of our Saviour's Agony and the Angel that appear'd to him in the Garden, related by St. Luke, Chap. 22, 47. Of the supposititious Letter of Jesus Christ to Agbarus King of Edessa. 121. Of the Letters of Len∣tulus and Pilate concerning Jesus Christ 162. Of the passage of Josephus con∣cerning Jesus Christ. 164. Of the false Histories of the Birth and In∣fancy of Jesus Christ forg'd by the Mareosians. 127. Of the Spurious Writings of Jesus Christ to Saint Peter concerning Miracles. 128. A Spurious Treatise concerning the High-Priesthood of Jesus Christ, 130
• Inspiration, of the Inspiration of the Apostles. 12. of the Inspiration of their Writings. ibid. How to know this Inspiration, 13
• Saint John the Evangelist. His Country and Kindred. 48. His Call. ibid. His Acts as recorded in the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. 48, 49. The Establishment of the Churches of Asia, by St. John. 50. His Mar∣tyrdom at Rome and Banishment to the Isle of Patmos. ibid. His Death. ibid. Some of his Actions related by

• the Ancients, ibid. Upon what oc∣casion and motive, and at what time he wrote his Gospel, 50, 51. Of the Stile of his Gospel, 51. Of the conclusion of his Gospel, 52. Of his three Canonical Epistles, 76. The first to whom directed, ibid. Its subject Matter, ibid. The two last call'd in Question, ibid. By whom found, ibid. That they are St. John's, ibid. The subject Matter of them, 77. By whom of the Ancients they are cited, 18. Of his Apocalypse, 82, &c. Of the Acts Father'd upon him, 129
• Josephus, His Life, 169; his Works, ib. His Passage concerning Jesus Christ, 164. By whom cited, ibid. Argu∣ments of the doubtfulness of that Passage, 164, 165. A Reply to those Arguments, 166. That Caius the Priest might have been the Author of it, ibid. The Passage of Josephus concerning St. John Baptist, ibid. The Difficulties which arise about that Passage, ibid. Cited by the An∣cients, 167. An Interpolation made in the Greek Text of Josephus, ibid.
• Josephus Bengorion, A spurious Author, 170
• Juda, Leo; of his Version of the New Testament, 117
• Judas Iscariot; the Gospel Father'd up∣on him by the Gajanites, 126
• St. Jude, Sirnam'd Lebbeus or Thaddeus 80. Whether he were sent to Edessa or not, ibid. Of the time of his Death and the manner of his Martyr∣dom, ibid. Of his Canonical Epi∣stle, ibid. Who they were that doubted of it, and who own'd it, 81: When written, ibid. Its sub∣juect Matter, ibid.
• Justus of Tiberias; the Works of this Author lost. 170.

L.

• LAodiceans An Epistle to the Laodi∣ceans attributed to St. Paul, 61. Whether any mention is made of it in the Epistle to the Colossians, ibid. Of the Spurious Epistle under that Title, ibid. Whether that which we have be the same with that cited by the Fathers, ibid.
• Lentulus. A Letter concerning Jesus Christ attributed to him, 162
• St. Linus. The Passion of St. Peter and St. Paul attributed falsly to him, 149
• St. Luke. His Country and Profession, 44. The Companion of St. Paul, ibid. Whether it be not of him and his Gospel that St. Paul makes men∣tion, when he tells them that he sent to them a Brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches, 45. Of his Preaching and Death, ibid. The design of St. Luke in the composing of his Gospel, 45. Where and when he compos'd it, 46. Of the Style of St. Luke, ibid. Of the Substractions and Additions made to his Gospel, 47. The Differences of the Cambridge Manuscript in the Gos∣pel of St. Luke, ibid. When he com∣pos'd the Acts of the Apostles, 53. Of the History of that Book, ibid. and of its Excellency. ibid.

M.

• MAnuscripts, Greek of the new Te∣stament. Of the three most Ancient Manuscripts of the New Testament, 103. The Vatican MS, ibid. The Manuscript of Thecla, ib. The Cambridge Manuscript, 104. The several Opinions of Authors a∣bout this last, 104, &c. Reflections and the particular Judgment of the Author concerning that Manuscript, 106. Of other Manuscripts of the New Testament, ibid. The Origine of the Faults that have crept into the Greek Manuscripts. 107
• St. Mark: The Disciple and Interpre∣ter of St. Peter, 40. Not the same with Mark Sirnam'd John, the Com∣panion and Kinsman of Barnabas, ibid. Of what Station he was, ibid. Whether he was one of the seventy two Disciples, ibid. Of his Life and Actions, 41. When he compos'd his Gospel, ibid. In what Language he Wrote it, 42. That he abridg'd St. Matthew's Gospel, ibid. Of the last Verses of his Gospel, 43. An Addi∣tion to his Gospel, ibid. A Liturgy falsly ascrib'd to him, 134. The Sup∣posititious Author of St. Mark's Life, 150
• Virgin Mary, A Spurious Letter attri∣buted to her, 123. Spurious Authors of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 127. The Death and Assumption of

• the Virgin Mary, 130
• St. Matthew: His Life, 26. Whose Son he was, 27. Of the Place of his Preaching and Martyrdom, ibid. Of his Gospel. 28. when compos'd, ib. In what Language, ibid. Of the Face which the Hebrew Gospel of St. Matthew underwent, 20, &c. Of the Greek Version of that Gospel, 30. Additions to the Gospel of St. Mat∣thew, 34. of the Copy of St. Mat∣thew's Gospel carry'd by St. Bartholo∣mew to the Indians, 32. Of another Copy that was in the Caesarean Li∣brary, ibid. Of the Copy that was found under the Empire of Zeno, ib. Of the Hebrew Versions of St. Matthew's Gospel, 36. The mass of the Ethiopians falsly attributed to him, 134
• St. Matthias. Of the Spurious Gospel of St. Matthias, 126. The Spurious Author of his Life, 150
• Mercurius Trismegistus: His History, 161. Of the Works which at pre∣sent go under his Name. ibid.

N.

• NIcodemus: A Spurious Gospel full of Fables attributed to him, 124
• Noriah: Of the Spurious Revelations of Seth and Noriah, 130

O.

• ONesimus, the Slave of Philemon, converted by St. Paul, 64. Re∣admitted into the favour of his Ma∣ster by the Mediation of St. Paul, ibid. Not the same with the Bishop of Ephesus of that Name, ibid.

P.

• PAgninus, Sanctes, of his Latin Ver∣sion of the New Testament, 117
• St. Paul, Of his Name Saul, 53. When and upon what occasion he took up∣on him the Name of Paul, 55. His Country, 53. His Education, 54. His Conversion, ibid. His Travels, ibid, &c. His Death, 56. Of the time, occasion and subject Matter of his fourteen Epistles, 56, &c. Of the Style of St. Paul, 68. A Judgment pass'd on the Treatise intituled the Rapture or Elevation of St. Paul, 129. Of the suposititious Revelation at∣tributed to him, ibid.
• Perfection, Of the Gospel of Perfection forg'd by the Gnosticks, 126
• Persian, The Versions of the N. T. into the Persian Language, 118
• St. Peter, Of his Canonical Epistles, 74. That the first was writ from Ba∣bylon and in what Year, ibid. To whom it was directed, ibid. The sub∣ject Matter of it, 74. Why the se∣cond was doubted of 75. That it is St. Peter's, ibid. To whom Directed, ibid. Of his Style, ibid. By whom of the Ancients cited, ibid. Of the Gospel of St. Peter, 125. Of the Preaching, Apocalypse and Judg∣ment of St. Peter, ibid. Of the Li∣turgy falsly attributed to him, 134
• Philemon, Who he was, 64. Of the Epistle Directed to him by St. Paul, ibid.
• St. Philip: Of the Gospel attributed to him by the Gnosticks, 126. Of his Supposititious Acts, 129
• Philipians; St. Pauls Epistle to them, 60. The subject Matter of that Epistle, ibid. When written, ibid.
• Philo the Jew; His Country, 168. His Ambassy to Rome, ibid. His Works, ibid, &c.
• Philo Biblius; His Translation of the History of the Phaenicians attributed to Sanchoniathon, 171
• Pilate; Of the Letter attributed to him, 162
• Prochorus; The Life of St. John falsly attributed to Prochorus, 149

R.

• REvelation; Of the Revelation made by Jesus Christ, 1. Of its Excel∣lencies, ibid. After what manner it was made, 2. How publish'd by the Apostles, ibid, &c.
• Book of Revelations, That it is St. John's the Apostle, 82. The Opinions of the Ancients concerning the Apoca∣lypse especially of Caius and Diony∣sius Alexandrinus, ibid. The Argu∣ments of Dionysius Alexandrinus to prove that the Apocalypse is not St. John's refuted, 83, &c. Whether it was rejected by the Greek Churches, 84. When it was written, ibid. The subject Matter of the Book, ibid. Of the false Apocalypse or Revelations forg'd by Hereticks, 128, &c.
• Romans, the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ro∣mans, from whence and when written, 56. The subject Matter of that E∣pistle, 57

S.

• SAnchoniathon; The History of the Phaenicians under his Name, 171
• Seneca, spurious Letters of Seneca to St. Paul, 163. Whether the Letters ci∣ted by the Ancient Fathers be diffe∣rent from those which we have, ibid
• Sibyls. From whence that Name is de∣rived, 150. Several Opinions con∣cerning the Number of the Sibyls, 151. The eight Books of Verses at∣tributed to the Sibyls, spurious, 152. That however these were the Books which the Fathers cited, 153. When they were forg'd, 155. An Answer to those who maintain the genuine∣ness of them, 156, &c. The Hypo∣thesis of Vossius concerning the Sibyls refuted, 158. Their Oracles reject∣ed by several of the Ancients, 159. How far they were own'd by the Heathen, ibid
• St. Stephen; Spurious Revelations fa∣ther'd upon him, 130
• Stephens, Robert; His Edition of the N. T. with various Readings, 102
• Syriac, Versions of the N. T. 118

T.

• Testament; In what Sence the Word Testament agrees in a peculiar manner with the New Covenant, 20. The Spu∣rious Testament of the twelve Patri∣archs, 171
• Text, Greek of the N. T. Of the Truth and Sincerity of the Greek Text, 97. The faults which may have crept in∣to it, 107. The Corrections of that Text made by Origen, 98. The pu∣rity of the Greek Text according to St. Jerome, 99. How it has been since preserv'd in its purity, ibid. The Ancient Varieties of this Text, ibid. The several Collections that have been made of these Varieties Of the Manuscripts of the Gr. Text, 102. The Origine of the Varieties of this Text, 107. The Differences between the Greek Text and the Vulgar Latin, 109. Rules to discern which of the Readings of the Text ought to be followed, 111, &c.
• Thessalonians, St. Paul's Epistles to them, when written, upon what occasion, and the subject matter of them, 62, &c.
• St. Thomas, Of the Gospel attributed to him by the Gnosticks, 126 Of the spurious Acts father'd upon him, 129. Of the false Revelations attributed to him, 130
• Timothy. His Country and Kindred, 62 His Life, ibid. The Epistles written by St. Paul to him, 62, 63
• Titus, Who he was, and by whom con∣verted, 63. Of St. Paul's Epistle to him, ibid
• Tradition, the necessity of Tradition to know the Canonical Books of the N. Testament, 131, &c.
• Trinity, Of the passage concerning the Trinity in the first Epistle of St. John Chap. 5. Vers. 7. 77
• Truth, Of the Gospel of Truth forg'd by the Valentinians, 126

V.

• Valla, Laurentius; The first who sear∣ched into and collated the Greek Ma∣nuscripts of the N. T. 116. The de∣sign which he had of making a new Latin Version of the N. T. ibid
• Peter Faxar Marquiss of Los-Velez. The Collection which he made of the Va∣rious Lections of several Greek Ma∣nuscripts, conformable to the Vul∣gar Latin, 103
• Versions of the N. T. The Ancient La∣tin Versions of the N. T. differing and faulty, 109. The Ancient Vul∣gar full of Errors, ibid. Reform'd by St. Jerome, 115. Whether St. Je∣rome reform'd all the places of the Vulgar Version by the Greek Text, ibid. The Reformation made by St. Jerome disapprov'd of by some, but at last receiv'd, 100. Of the Varieties between the Greek Text and the Vulgar Latin, 110. New Latin Ver∣sions of the New Testament, 115. Oriental Versions of the New Testa∣ment, 117. Of the Versions into the Vulgar Languages, 118

X.

• XImenes Cardinal; The Revisal of the N. T. in Greek from several Ma∣nuscripts made by his Orders, 102

Z.

• ZAcariah, mention'd in the Gospel the Son of Jehoiada according to the Gospel of the Nazarens, 35
• Zoroaster, His History, 171. A Spuri∣ous Work attributed to him 171

The End.