Phlegon re-examined: in answer to Dr. Sykes's second defense of his dissertation concerning Phlegon. To which is added a postscript, concerning the Chronicon paschale / By John Chapman.

  • John Chapman
Date:
1735
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Credit: Phlegon re-examined: in answer to Dr. Sykes's second defense of his dissertation concerning Phlegon. To which is added a postscript, concerning the Chronicon paschale / By John Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fee, the very Paffages alledg’d by him in op- pofition to it, do themfelves, when narrowly examined, afford us new Arguments in its favour. And if the Chronicon itfelf thus dif- covers two different Authors concerned in the Compofition of it, why may not we admit what the antient Manufcript of Holjlenim af- furesus, that one of thefe Authors lived in the Reign of Conjlantius about A.D. 354, and the other in Heraclms about A.D. 630? It is true, the MS. does not give us the original Chronicon quite pure and perfed, but that is no reafon, why we fhould not regard what it fays as to the different Authors and Ages of them. For #tis impoffible to explain, how fo antient a MS. of the Chronicon fhould be as it is, if one Perfon had been the Author of the whole, and liv'd fo late as Heraclius’s time 5 but 'tis eafy to conceive how fome Adulterations might creep into it, if we fuppofe with Holfienius and Du Trefne two different Editions of it at different Times, the firft publifh’d by an Author in the fourth Century, the fecond by another with large Additions and Adulterations in the [eventh. Upon the firft Supposition no probable Rea- fon either from Negligence or JDefign can be given, why the MS. fhould be fo fhort and defedive as to want two thirds of the whole Chronicon, and to end in the year 354; but many may be given upon the latter, why it is not quite free from the later Additions to the O- yiqinal
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