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    sheim , ^ lie relates ( Lett . vii . Sect . 5 , ) that the majority of Hebrew Christians , having divested themselves of ( he form of Judaism , which to that time they had borne , they removed from Pella , and other towns to which th < y had retired , and settled in great numbers

    at iElia . " Dr . Priestley , however , not having been able to discover any traces of this return from Pel . la , in all his researches into ecclesiastical antiquity , nor yet in MosheimY General History of the Oburch , plainly taxes the bishop with being the inventor of this cir . cutnstance of the narrative . But

    the learned prelate conscious that in this particular he had not advanced a step beyond his great authority , Mosheifn , indignantly swpels the charge of his acute , but 44

    too precipitate , antagonist . It iappens /' says the bishop , c 4 that this fact , of which Dr . Priestley does me the honour to make me

    the inventor , is asserted by Epiphanius . " Tracts , p . 416 , And again , p . 417- "To this assertion ofEpiphanius , Mosbeim , relating the fact , refers . Relating the same fact , to Mosbeim I referred : to the very passage where Dr . Priestley , had he known what it is to examine

    authorities , before he pronounces upon them , might have found the reference to the original author .

    The confidence with which he mentions this as a fact , forged by me , is only one instance out t > f a great number , of his own shameless

    intrepidity of assertion . " Passing over tbe wrathful exptfessibns of ^ tlie indignant writer , let us noW attend ta the passage in Eprphanius , which the right ** evere » i ^ ffceifete has citeii at Jcmgt ^ « nd which , for reasonssuf . iiikrklyia ^ ioufe ^ de ihaj ^ cited ia

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    tttfe ortgkmi fi>ikj ^^ iri ttttvtft « translation . T % ei following - is thepurp 6 ft of ihb passage . That Aquilfl , residing at Jerusalem , as

    overseer &f Adfatan * s works , in the twelftb year trf his refgn , ^ saw the dfsci ^ les of the apostles flourishing in the faith , and working great miracles of heal . ing , and other wonderful things . For they had returned frbzn Pel la

    of the Dedapolte , to Jerusalem , and were teaching . For when the city wai about to be taken by the Romans , all the

    disciples were forewarned by an angel to withdraw fronv the city which was about t& be utterly destroyed * ¦ These having with - drawn from Jerusalem resided in

    the aforesaid PeUay a city beyond tbe Jordan ,- but after tke'tfesbtation of Jerusalem returning as I said , they performed -gireal mtracies . " Bpiphan . dd Pbn& . ^ it Mtus . Se € tiXv- > ^ ' "

    Now Sir , it appears undeniably from this passage of Epiphamas , and still more froln't * T ^ > eoniext , that these holy men w ^ h ^ fiv A ^ Jttila saw , who were returned-frfrm

    Pella , and % vho were prea ^ hift g d working miracles lit Jerusalem , in the twelfth year vftrAdMn , were the vei ^ y same persons who , warned by an ttngel , had ^ escaped from Jerusalem , previously to its

    desolation by Titus ,. forty . seven years before ^ according - U > Epiphanius ' s *> wn calculation , © r . Horsley adds , * trhat they netiirneJ from Pella , ^ afit ^ r tbe demoliiion and

    of Jerusalem hy Adrian ^ that * they fnasdte ito scfupl ^ to ienounce the Mosaic law , th ^ t they might be qualified to partake in the vftlusbii privileges x )* the ^ li an colony . ^ ' JDrtaUr'jp& ' jtf + O ' ' ^ canonized bishopM Ss * urtiirr # lates

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    SS 4 Mr . Behh ^ t ^ s-R ^^ t& n ^ R ^^^^ HWkley .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/24/