...Addend, p. 603. ValentinusT who taught his heretical doctrines about AD 14-0. * and might lie born at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, says ; E/if \k iftt a-yaflof v ora^iw/'a » o« TV lyv q>a.rtfovi(' xa/ li aJrv n'ora StlrajTo aV ,••...

...the versions. It certainly was made before the fourth, and there are arguments to shew it was made at the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century. There are more modern Syriac versions of the New Testament, the principal of which is the Philoxenian,...

...translation, continues he, of the Greek Testament, that I have ever read. He holds it to have been made at the end of the first, or the beginning of the second , century. It is, beyond a doubt, 'of extreme antiquity. But Mr. Marsh has observed, with the singular accuracy...

...also owing to the fame of Christ • and his apostles, and the great success of their ministry. By the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, there were in the church many learned men converts from the several sects of philosophy, especially...

...certainly made before the fourth, and there are circumstances which render it probable, that it was made at the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century. In 1552> the Maronite christians having, under the direction of Ignatius their patriarch, sent Moses...

...(e) In short, this counterfeit Esdras, who seems to have been a Christian, and to have lived about the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, is not only so inconsistent in his account of this, and several other transactions, but so fond of...

...of the north parts of Italy, (or Italy proper,) of which Milan was the capital, received the Gospel in the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century of the Christian aera, is uncertain. During the first four centuries, their doctrine, worship, discipline,...

...from the several arguments advanced in this section is, that the Syriac version was made either at the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century ". SECT. VII. AnxKT to several objections in regard to the antiquity . of the Syriac version. I. The...

...were also owing to the fame of Christ and his apostles, and the great success of their ministry. By the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, there were in the church many learned men, converts from the several sects of philosophy, especially...

...undoubted. It is of great importance to the character of this epistle, that in the Syriac version, made at the end of the first or the beginning of the second century, while the second epistle of Peter, the second and third of John, and the Apocalypse, are omitted, the...