taught men how to seek fruit from trees, plainly alluding to 

 her eating the forbidden fruit, which is certainly the only 

 fruit she and Adam are mentioned to have eaten. She is 

 said to have taught men to ^at fruit, because she eat it 

 before Adam had eaten of it; and this is said with a view of 

 excusing her, for it is added that both were mortal, which, 

 having no connexion with any thing preceding, was evidently 

 intended to prevent the belief that mortality was occasioned 

 by a breach of the Divine command, in eating the forbidden 

 fruit. 



The fourth paragraph was intended to convey a justification 

 of the worship of the sun, or Beelsamen ; the subsequent 

 words, whom the Greeks called Zeus, were probably interpo- 

 lated by the translator. Many such interpolations occur in 

 the remainder of this fragment. 



Whether Sanchoniatho's vvorks can be considered of such 

 high antiquity as has been attributed to them by Philo, 

 Porphyry and Eusebius, is much controverted; their anti- 

 quity and authenticity are contended for by Bochai-t, Vossius, 

 Iluet, Cumberland, JVarburton, Goguet, Jackson and Mignot, 

 and admitted by Grotius ; but denied by P. Simon, Dodwell, 

 Vandale, Calmet, Dupin, and La Barre. 



I shall not, at present, meddle with this question, but 

 simply notice that the cosmogony and anthropogony of 

 Sanchoniatho bear the strongest marks of high antiquity; 

 hut the remainder of the fragment seems to consist not of 

 traditions, but of additions mtuie by Phenician priests, of 



whose 



