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318 Credibility of the Gospel History.
placeth him near the times of the apostles; "^ which
thinks may be understood with so great latitude as to leave
room to suppose that Scythian lived to near the end
second century.
of the
In The Acts of Archelaus, Scythian is said "^ to have lived
Cave
in the time of the apostles ; but that seems not very consistent
Avith what follows, where*^ it is said that Terebinthus
was a disciple of Scythian, and intimate with him : and
Maui, who appeared not in the world till after the middle of
the third century, is said to have been the slave and adopted
son of the woman at whose house Terebinthus died.
Indeed there is reason to believe that Scythian was contemporary
with Mani, as*^ some learned hien have perceived ;
fors in Photius is express mention made of a'' letter of Mani
to Scythian.
Archelaus in one place says that' Scythian was of the
country of Scythia: but afterwards he says he'' was a Saracen
or Arabian ; which is also said by' Cyril and Epiphanius.
Photius too says, not very differently from"
Archelaus, that Scythian" was descended from the Saracens,
but chose to live in Egypt, and particularly at Alexandria.
2. Terebinthus, reckoned another predecessor of Mani, is
said byf Epiphanius to have been a learned man as well as
Scythian. The common account of this man in '•Archelaus,
•^ Tradit Epiphanius ipsum Hierosolyma profectum -n-epi tsq xpovsc riuv
aTTOToXoiv. [H. 66. n. 3. p. 620. A.] Quod laxiore quidem sensu de saeculo
aevum apostolicum proxiine secuto intelligendum est ; adeo ut vergente ad
exitum saeculo secundo diem fatalem obiisse censeri potest. Cav. H. 1. T. i. p.
140. Oxon. 1740. •* Scythianus nomine apostolomm tempore fuit
sectae hujus auctor et princeps.—Arch. n. 5]. p. 95.
* Discipulum habuit quemdam nomine Terebinthum. Arch. n. 52. p.
96.— quia ergo aliqiiantuUim temporis socum isti ambo dccreverunt soH habi-
lare;—Ille vero discipulus, qui cum eo fuerat couversatus,—ib.
^ riunc Scythianum Manetis adhuc setate vixisse non dubito, licet aetate ac
senio eum praeccssit.—Certe ex Manetis epistola ad Scythianum fragmentum
a me infra afferetur. Fabr. Bib. Gr. T. v. p. 280. Vid. et Beausobre Hist, des
Manich. T. i. p. 26, et 63. s Kat firjv /era 6 Mavixaiog irpog
'S.KvOiavov tTTi'rtXKajv—ap. Phot, in Eulogio cod. 230. p. 849.
'' See a French translation of the fragment of that letter in B. T. i. p. 45.
' quidam ex Scythia, Scythianus nomine. Arch. n. 51. p. 95.
^ Ciiif|ue Scythianus ipse ex genere Saracenorum fuit, et captivam quamdam
accepit uxorem de superiore Thebaide, quae eum suasit habitare in Mgypio,
magis quam in deserfis. ib. n. 52. p. 96.
' 'EapaKtjvog to ytvog. Cat. 6. n. 22. '" (Itto tijc
^apciKtjviat: i)r)nuifi(VH. II. 66. u. 1. " See before, not. ^.
" '2i:vOuiroQ rtg tt]v TrarpiSa AiyvTrrwg, to St tS av9p(OTrojv ytvog "^.ttpuKt^vog
T7]v AXt^avSpiav ipKsi. Ph. contr. Manich. 1. 1. c. 12. in.
^ Hv yap Kui nTog iv ypafifiaaiv nri^iXiTaTa TTiTzaidivjitvog. II. 66. n. 3.
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p. 620. L). et Babylonian! j^ctiit, fjuae nunc provincia
habetur a Persis,— quo cumvenisset, talem de sefamem pervulgavit ipse Tore-