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140 Credibility of the Gospel History.
Antioch ; and^ there is no small difficulty in reconciling
these councils. But I may not stay to inquire exactly into
that matter ; it is sufficient for me at present to give these
points, and refer to those ancient writers above-named, and
somes learned moderns of great note, who have endeavoured
to reconcile this contradiction, real or apparent; and to show
that, notwithstanding the different sentiments and conduct
of these two councils with regard to this word, yet they both
held the same doctrine.
6. With regard to Malchion's canon of scripture : as we
have nothing of him remaining' besides the above-mentioned
fragments in Eusebius, and 1 have formerly'' observed the
notice taken of scripture in the synod ica! epistle of the council
of Antioch, I have nothing farther to add here upon
this head, but only to say. That it ought to be taken for
granted that Malchion owned and respected those scriptures
which were generally received at that time among christians
but what was his opinion concerning the books of the New
Testament, then doubted of by some, cannot be certainly
known.
CHAP. LI.
ANATOLIUS, AND THREE OTHERS, BISHOPS OF LAODICEA.
I. Anatolhis, bisJiop of Laodicea in Syria, his history and
works. IT. His testimony to the scriptures. III. Eusebius,
likewise bishop of Laodicea. IV. Stephen. V.
Theodotus, bishops of the same city.
T. SAYS Jerom :
' Anatolius,=' a native of Alexandria, bishop
' of Laodicea in Syria, flourished under the emperors Probus
^ De hac synodorum avnXoyit^ laborarunt theologi, qua veteres, qua neoterici.
Bull. Def. Fid. Nic. p. 29. a. m. e Petav. de Trin. 1. iv. c. 5. num.
ii. iii. Bull. Def. Vid. Nic. Sect. ii. cap. 1. num,ix. x. xi. Basnag. Ann. 269.
num. vi. Tillem. ut supr. Paul deSamos. art. 5. p. G31, 632.
•" See Vol. ii. ch. xliii. * Anatolius Alexandrinus, Laodiceae
Syriae epLscopus, sub Probo et Caro imperatoribus floruit. Mirae doctrinae vir
fuit in arithmetica, geometria, astronomia, granimatica, rhetorica, dialectica.
Cujus ingenii magnitudiuera de volumine, quod super Pascha composuit, et
decem libris de arithnietica2 institutionibus, intelligere possumus. Hier. de V.
I c. 73.
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