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scbius, Bishop of Alexandria, and Felix, 
Bishop of Ephesus ; yet neither Eusebius, 
nor Felix, were even born during the 
whole period of the lifeof Antherus. 
MARCELLINUS, (FORGED WORKS, Il.) 
In his Epist. i1.ad Oriental. is made 
to say, “'Lhe Emperor might not, at- 
tempt to presume any thing against the 
gospel.” ‘There was no Emperor then 
alive, who understood Christ, or the 
gospel, 
ATHANASIUS, (FORGED WORKS, IV.) 
ry . . ite 
Che forgery of the Epistles as as- 
cribed to him, is denoted by the follow- 
Ing strange sentence, ‘‘ Itomana Sedes 
est sucer vertex, in quo omnes vertuntur :” 
that is, the Roman sea is a whirlpool, in 
which all men are whirled round. 
MARCELLUS, (FORGED WORKS, V.) 
In his Epist. ii.. he writes to the Em- 
peror Maxentius, and presses upon hin 
the authority of Clement. Maxentius 
was an infidel, a tyrant, a persecutor of 
the Christians, and neither knew nor 
cared for the authority of Clement, 
ZEPUYRINUS, (FORGED WORKS, Vi.) 
In his Epist. i. he says, ‘ Christ. com- 
manded his Apostles to appoint the 
seventy-two disciples.” St. Luke says, 
Christ himself appointed them, 
MELTIADES, (FORGED WORKS, Vil.) 
Luke says, that John the Baptist, gave 
this counsel to the soldiers, ** Be ye con- 
tented with your wages, &c.”” Meltiades, 
_ (Ep. i.) names Christ instead of John, 
ANICLETUS, (FORGED WORKS, Viii.) 
He says, in his Epist. 1. that Clemens 
was his predecessor. Irenzus, (I. 3. c. 3.) 
as does Eusebius, notes that Anacletus 
preceded Clement. He also, ( Dist. 93, 
jucta Sanctorum, ) mentions St. Peter's 
church, though no church was built. in 
the naine of St. Peter, within three bun- 
dred years after Anicletus. In_ his 
Epist. ui, he quotes the decrees and 
canons of the old Fathers, although he 
was contemporary with St. John, and 
was himself one of the oldest. 
HIPPOLYTUS MARTYR. 
This was a bvok published in the six- 
teentn century, as the work of a bishop 
and martyr, inthe time of Origen, It 
is a stvange forgery. The first sentence 
of the work begins with Enim, and he 
sometimes mukes the Revelations of St. 
John synonymeus with the prophecies 
ef Daniel. 
Moxtury Mag. No. 189, 
PAULINUS, BISHOP OF NOLA, 
In his verses of the Life of Felix he 
Martyr, describing a church, mentions 
the images of (as he epithetizes then) 
scabby Job, blind Tobit, pretty Judith 
and great Queen Esther. 
THE APOSTLES MARRIED. 
The apostles were all, except St John, 
married men: Ignatius ad Philadelph. 
Euseb. 1, 3. c. 90, Clen. Sromat. 
1. 7. mentions St. Paul’s being mar- 
ried, &c, 
VOLATERRANUS.» . 
Ile translated Nazianzene’s Monodia, 
and put in whole sentences, and per- 
verted and altered a great part of the 
original, 
AMPHILOCHIUS. 
This was a friend of Basil. In the heat 
of controversy, a work was published, as 
his, and as from a unique manuscript 1 
the library of S. Nazarius, at Verona; 
the opponents unluckily discovered ano- 
ther, from which it appeared, that the 
same author had written the lite of 
Thomas a Becket, who lived seven hun- 
dred years after Amphilochius. 
CLAUDIUS DU SANCTES. 
Ue published, “a Liturgy of 8. Cary- 
sostom,” which prays for Pope Nicholas, 
by name, aud for the empire and victory 
of the Emperor Alexius; the first lived 
five hundred, the other seven hundred 
years, after Chrysostom. 
WOLFGANGUS LAZIUS. 
He published the works of one Abdias, 
and gravely affirms, that his author was 
one of the seventy-two disciples: and 
that St. Luke, the Evangelist, in writing 
the Acts uf the Apostles, borrowed many 
whole stories, word by word, out of this 
Abdias!!! ‘This last hero pretends, that 
he was present with Christ, and at most 
part of the Apostles’ doings, though some 
of them were gone to Italy, some to Asia 
Minor, some to Scythia, some to Tada, 
some to Ethiopia: he also mentions 
Egesippus, who lived one handred aud 
sixty years after Christ. 
LUKE, A PAINTER. 
St. Paul, (Coloss. iv.) says, Luke the 
Physician, not the Painter, ‘Theodorus 
Anagnostes, (Lib. i.) says, that Eudoxia 
sent animage of the Virgin Mary, painted 
by Luke, to the Empress Pulchera, 
upon what authority is not known, 
PAPA. 
Ofevs 6 wamrwas Jupiter Papa, was an 
idol worshipped in Bithynia, &c. 
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