MR. TAYLOR' S SECOND REPLY. 123 



Misappropriation of the " seven witnesses" corrected. 



Now, unfortimatelj for my friend here, Eusebius himself, so 

 far from sustaining his position, expresslj asserts that " those 

 just and holj men who li ved before Moses neither observed 

 nor understood the Sabbath days. Hence, neither Abraham, 

 nor Isaac, nor Jacob, nor his sons, nor those more ancient yet 

 than these, appear to have had any knowledge of the Sabbath/^ 

 {Commentar. in Pmlmos, Ps. xci. ] see also \usllist. Eccl. lib. 

 i. cap. 4.) 



In PART IT. of my fricnd's Reply {p. 60), recurring to the 

 *^ mistake" into which he thinks I have fallen in my universal 

 necjation, he adds : '' I have corrected his mistake by the 

 united testimony of seven competent witncsses : Hesiod, 

 Homer, Callimachus, Philo, Josephus, Clement, and 

 Eusebius.'' In return, I hope that by these seven competent 

 "witnesses, I have now even still more efifectually corrected his 

 own very serious " mistake." And, '' if we allow the fact 

 thus testified by so many witnesses, Pagan, Jewish, and 

 Christian," I think that by the sound philosophy of Bacon 

 we are fuUy warranted in the affirmation that ^' throughout all 



able with a most deplorable dishonesty, or with an astounding infa- 

 tuation. One instance of an actual falsification of the text of Homer, 

 to aggrandize Sabbatarianism (which has been copied by both Clement 

 and Eusebius), is too flagrant to be here passed over. The passage 

 oceurs in the Odyssey (book v. line 262), where the hero of the poem, 

 making preparatious to sail from Calypso's island, it is said : — 



TETjarov nfxa^ e>)v, nai rm nreXfcrio aTravxa. 



" It was now the fourth day, and on it all things were completed." 

 Aristobulus has quoted this line verbatim, with the simple substitution 

 of 'EQhfxov for TST^arov, in order to show that Homer copied his ac- 

 count — from the second chapter of Genesis! " It was now the seventk 

 day, and on it all things were completed." Unfortunately, the very 

 next line of the poem relates that Calypso dismissed Ulysses {'ntfxTrrm) 

 on ihefifth day ! It is scarcely necessary to add that the Mosaic quo- 

 tation is not to be found in Homer. Let us hope that the two learned 

 and distinguished Christian Fathers who copied this were satisfied to 

 quote ignorantly, and did not attempt to verify their quotations. 



