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226 Credibility of the Gospel History.
sixth century, containing" part of St. Paul's epistles. It
seems, he says, to have been written in Palestine, or Syria
for the transcriber says, in a note at the end, that he had
compared his copy M'ith another in the library at Csesarea,
in the hand-writing- of Pamphilus : which therefore must
• have been done before that library was qnite destroyed, as
it was before the middle of the seventh centnry. In that
MS. the epistle to the Hebrews appears as St. Panl's. ' The
' order is"^ this: To the Romans, the first and second to the
* Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the
* Philippians, to the Colossians ; first and second to the
' Thessalonians, to the Hebrews, first and second to Timothy,
' to Titus, to Philemon.' That learned writer has given us
that curious note of the transcriber before nientioned in the
ancient letters of the manuscript. I place it at the bottom
of the page in the letters now commonly used: ' This^ book
' was compared with the copy in the library at Coesarea, in
' the hand-writing of saint Pamphilus.'
VI. It is thought by divers learned men, as '^Cave, '^Va-
lesius, and "* Tillemont, though Du Pin takes no notice of it,
that Pamphilus not only erected a library, but a school
likewise, or academy, at Coesarea. This supposition is chiefly
built upon a passage of Eusebius, which*^ I have cited
already. Tillemont however brings in^ other passages in
support of it. I must leave this point undecided. I dare
not contest the thing-. But the evidence is not clear, because
the passage of Eusebius, where he is supposed to mention
the school, is^ obscure ; and because there is no notice taken
of this school, that I remember, in Jerom, nor any other
ancient writer of credit.
* Ordo Epistolarum Pauli in Codice xxix. supra, ad Rom. ad Corinth. 1, 2>
ad Galat. ad Ephes. ad Philippens. ad Colossens. ad Thessalonicens. ], 2, ad
Hebr. ad Timoth. 1, 2, ad Titum, ad Philemonem. lb. p. 255. ni.
^ AvTtfiXrjOt] Se r) (3i(iXog Trpo? to iv Kaiaapeia ctvriypa^ov ttjq l3i(3Xio9t]KTig,
TH ayiH Tlafj.(pikii xtipi yeypa/i/wcj/oj/. Ap. Bib. Coisl. ib. p. 262.
** Pamphili vitani tnbus libris amplexus est—Eusebius, quibus integrum
vitoe ejus curriculum, quajque ad scholam ab eo institutam pertinent,—accu-
ratissime depinxit. Cav. H. L. de Pamphilo, ad fin.
*^ Vales. Annot. in Euseb. p. IGO. B.
•* Saint, Pamphile, ubi supra, p. 58. * Seep. 219.
' Vid. Euseb. de M. P. c. iv. p. 323. C. 324. A. B.
K I shall here put down Eusebius's words, and divers Latin versions : iKa^a
Se TH Kar avrov (its, Kai I'lg (TuviTt^TaTO huTfuftriQ. 1. vii. c. 32. p. 288. D.
Verum nos singula, quee ad illius vitam et ad scholam ab eodem institutam pertinent,—
peculiari opere complexi sumus. Vales. Omnem ejus vitam institutionemque
a puero. Ruf. Verum singula vitaj illius, et in qua schola instilutus
fuent. W. Musculus. Qua ratione institutus. Christophorson. Et Conf.
Vales. Annot. p. 160. B. And any one that pleaseth, may see how I have
translated the passage, at p. 2-19.
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