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248 Credibiiity of the Goxpel Histortj.
copies of Nicephorus is fiavaTtavtv, the Latin translator, sensible
it must be a wrong- reading-, puts Novatus : Dionysius
Novate fratri salutem : and so it is likewise in Rufinus's
ancient Latin translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History,
as was shown formerly, see ch. xlvii.
I hope I have now at once shown that Dionysius of Alexandria,
and Nicephorus, as well as Eusebius, write the name
of the presbyter of Rome, Novatus.
Still Mr. Jackson says, p. 127, that ' in the Chronography
' of Georgius Syncellus, p. 374, Dionysius calls the Roman
' presbyter to whom he Avrote Novatian.' But then in the
margin is put Novatus, as a various reading-, or a correction
of the text, as supposed to be corrupt, and with good reason ;
for elsewhere very often, perhaps forty or fifty times, that
author writes Novatus.
Mr. Jackson says, p. 127, ' And Sozomen in his Ecclesi-
' astical History, 1. iii. c. 8, calls the Roman presbyter No-
' vatian, and so is expressly against Mr. L , though he
' has alleged him on his side.' But let any attentive person
judge whether Mv. Jackson has reason for what he says here :
in that place indeed Sozomen has Novatian : but in another
Novatus. MaOtvv o/(ip, Mn/ce^oi'fos Tfe9 7r\e/89 ev6aSe Ta NawaTa
fjipovciv. K. X. I. iv. c. 21. p. 571. D. And in another place
he expressly says that the name of the leader of the sect was
Novatus. NawdTO? fiev "lap,
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