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    fo / feook l | $ atbfl& # m $ r Judaism and became a Christian ^ embraced m « o doing that Jaw and couiisq pf life which had been followed by the ancient patriarchs , the frieadaof God . Iijl discussing these subjects with the philosophers and advocates of Heathenism * Eusebius of course maintained the superior authenticity and credit of the Jewish records , The historical accuracy of records connected with religion became a point of great importance at a time when the only

    memorials for fiited chronology were intimately connected with hieratic registers Berosus , from such materials , had compiled the annajs of the Assyrians , Manetho , those of Egypt , Acusilaus , those of Greece . Assuming the substantial accuracy of many of these records , and investigating and correcting them where wrong , Eusebius devoted himself to ascertain and determine their correspondence with the chronology of the Jewish Scriptures , intending at the same time to prove that the dates which heathen chronology assigned

    to those worthies who had become the objects of heathen worship was far later than those of the patriarchs and prophets recorded in the authentic history of the Old Testament , Moses , he intends to shew , even according to their own chronology , lived prior to the worship of Jupiter , to the birth of Latona , of Bacchus , Apollo , and most of the heathen deities ; to the flood of Deucalion , the fall of Phaeton , the rape of Europa , and ages prior to the fir § t poets , philosophers and historians of Greece .

    . The fruit of inquiries of this sort was a series of chronological tables , forming his Xpovticovq Kavovo ^ , compiled in parallel columns , graduated by a scale of years much on the same plan as our modern historical charts , preceded by a work on which it was grounded , and which formed its development and illustration . This Eusebius entitled his iravroW ^ v \< rr *? iav . It was , in fact , a digest , with copious extracts , of all the writers of note who could be regarded as the original sources of information on the subject . The work was , as it deserved to be , highly valued , both for the original materials which it preserved , and the industry , skill and originality of its compilation .

    These books , now long lost to the world , or at least only preserved in scat- * tered aj * d imperfect fragments , have lately been restored ia an Armenian versjon , of which a Latin translation has been published under the title of Eu » sp \ A \ pamphiii , CaesarAensis Episcopi , Chronicon Bipartitum , nu » c primum e # Armepiaco textu in Latinum conversion , adnotationibus auctum , Grsecis fragmentis exornatum , opera P , Jo . Baptists Aucher , Ancyrani , Monachi Anneni , et Doctoris Meehitaristee . Venetiis , 1818 . 2 Tom . quarto , " We

    derive pur information as to this book and its valuable contents from the analysis of it in a contemporary ( the British Critic ) . If opportunity shall occur , we shall gladly avail ourselves of it to present a more minute account of it to our readers , comparing it with the fragments preserved , and , as he fancied , reunited and connected into almost their original form by Sea * liger ; and we shall also examine how far the system of such inquirers as Bryant are affected by an addition like this to the slender materials they possessed . At present we can only perform the humbler office of recording as matter of iuteresting intelligence such information as we have been able to

    procure . There is every reason to believe that the original text of Eusebius is irretrievably lost ; for though many searches were made during the two last centuries io the libraries both of the East and West , not a single copy has been hitherto discovered . The version of Jerome , indeed , still exists ; but it Garnet supply tfrc place pf the original for two reasoos , First , u eonigtinft

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/11/