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446 Credibility of the Gospel History,
SECT. IX.
THE PAULICIANS.
I. Their history/. II. Their testimony to the scriptures,
I. I TAKE this opportunity to give a brief account of the
Paulicians, who were mentioned* before, and are usually
reckoned a branch of the Manichees. But Beausobre says
that'' though they are sometimes confounded with the Manichees,
they agreed but little with them. And indeed Peter
of Sicily intimates that*" they did not own themselves to be
Manichees.
They are generally supposed to have first appeared in
the seventh century, in the country of Armenia, and to have
been so called from'' Paul, son of Callinice, a Manichaean
woman, Avho had another son named John, who also was
a zealous preacher of this doctrine, called revived Manicha'ism.
Photius says they® hold two principles, as the Manichees
do; he^ calls Mani their master: he continually considers
their sects as a branch of Manichaeism.
I formerly'' mentioned a particularity of theirs. Photius
likewise says that' they did not choose to have their
ministers called priests, but scribes or secretaries, or " companions
in travel," the word used in Acts xix. 29; and 2
Cor. viii. 1.9.
II. I now proceed to observe their testimony to the scrip-
tures.
» See p. 294. " B. T. 2. p. 765.
' Qui tametsi se a Manichaeoram impuiitatibus alienos dictitant, sunttamen
dogmatum ipsoruni vigilantissimi custodcs et propugnatores. Pet. Sic. ap.
Bib. P. P. Max. T. 10. p. 754. B.
"* El' Tavry yvvq tiq, ovofian TCaXXii'iKjj
—
Svo riKTd TTuiSag,—Ek Sartpa
TOIVVV TWV Hpi)jUV(x)V, OTIjJ UcivXoQ 7]V OVOjla UavXlKiaVlOV kXtJOIV 01 TT}S
uTToramac: cQwrcii neriWa'^avro. Ph. contr. Manich. 1. i. c. 2. p. 4, 5. Vid.
et Petr. Sic. ib. p. 759. A.
" Avo fiiv apxuQ ofioKoysaiv, ijQ o't Mrtvt;;^aioi' Phot. ib. 1. i. c. C. in.
^ Kai Toiyt TH SiSaaicnXs avTMV MavtVTOQ, k. X. ib. c. 8. p. 24.
K Ai TH ^'[avivTOQ TTapufvaStc- ib. 1. 4. c. 1. in. et passim.
' See p. 294. '
T>ic Hivroi Trap' avToig'uptwv ra'^ivsTrexovrai^
UK tptir, aXXa avvfx^rifii'.Q kox voraping fTrovojua^acri. h i. C. 9. p. 31. Conl.
c. 25. p. 134. et Wolf. not. in. loc.