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228 Credibility of the Gospel History.
the Apology composed by himself and Pamphilus. He
soon after refers to the" sixth book of that Apology as his
own. Socrates'' speaks of their common labour in it as an
allowed thing, and commends the work : yea, he cjuotes it
in another place as? Pamphilus's, Avithout mentioning
Eusebius. Photius, though he is far from commending the
performance, says, thati the first live books were written
jointly by Pamphilus and Eusebius in prison, and the sixth
by Eusebius alone afterwards. It is needless to allege any
other"" testimonies. Pamphilus, as well as Eusebius, was
remarkable for the regard he had for Origen. St. Jerom
knew that very well, and owns it sometimes : nor is it at all
strange that they should have a high esteem for Origen, who
continually had before them, in their library, the originals of
those amazing works, his Tetrapla and Hexapla, and many
other volumes of his m ritings, monuments of a most capacious
mind and unexampled industry.
This Avork, against which" Jerom threatened to write,
according to*^ his own acknowledgment, was laboured and
copious. Indeed, it must have been a large work, as may
be inferred from the length" of the first book, which ^ we
still have in Rufinus's Latin translation; from'"^ Eusebius's
divers references to it for farther particulars concerning
Origen; and from the accounts given" by some ancient
authors of the contents of it.
Here I might make some extracts out of that first book
which remains, to show what books of scripture are referred
to by the composers, and by Origen, in the ])assages quoted
from him: but it is needless. Considering Pamphilus's
respect for Origen, and his intimacy with Eusebius, it may
be taken for granted, that his canon of scripture was the
avTH iritrovrjfiiVTiq r/^iv re Kai rcf) KaO' i)ixaQ Upcp fxaprvpi Iln^^iX^ aTroXoyiag,
Trapf^iv ava\ii,iaQai. 1. vi. c. 33. p. 232. "
iv t/cn^j ti]q
ypcKplirrtjQ t'll^iv ttioi th avcooq airoXoyiac- it). C. 36. p. 233.
° TsTwv a^iOTTiTOi, ore UafKpiXoi: Kai— Evcf/Sio^* pp(pu} yap KOivy— iv^otoiQ
f3i(iXwiQ aTToXoyiav vTrtp avTti iroisfiivoi, k. X. Socr. 1. iii. cap. 7. p. 175. B.
1* Id. i. IV. c. 27. p. 244. D. i uiv oJ fnv ttivti UafirpiXtf)
TO ?'i(JH(i)rr}piov oikhvti, avunupovroc Kai Ed(T£/3(8, fKovriBrjciuv' k. X. Phot,
cod. 1 18. col. 396. vid. et col. 397. f.
' Vid. Pradestinat. Haer. 43.
' Adversus quse volumina, (si Dominus vitae hujus dederit spatium,) alias
respondere conabor. Adv. Riif. 1. ii. p. 419.
' Sex libros Eusebius CEesarionsis episcopus, Arianae quondam signifcr fac-
tionis, pro Origene scripsit, latissimum et elaboratnm opus. Adv. Ruf. 1. i. p.
357. " Rufinus translated the first book, and that only, so far
as we know. Horura tu primum librum vertis sub nomine martyris—Si totum
opus PamphiH est, cur reliquos libros non transfers? ib. 1. i. p. 357.
' Ap. Hieron. Opp. T. v. p. 219. &c. Ed. Bened.
" II. E. 1. vi. c. 23, et 33, et 36. " Vid. Socr. 1. iii. c. 7. 1. iv. c.
27. Phot. cod. 1 17, 1 18. Conf. Tillem. Saint Pamphile. T. v. P. iii. p. 60, 61.