A33359:182
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and ancient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and antient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Diocesan Churches not yet discovered in the Primitive times.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A great part of the City (says the Letter) was assigned to the Jews, so Strabo indefinitely as Josephus quotes him, others tell us more punctually, that their share was two of the five divisions; though many of them had their habitations in the other divisions, yet they had two 5th. parts entire to themselves; and this is I suppose the [Greek or Hebrew] which Josephus says the Successors of Alexander, set apart for them; thus we see how 6 or 7 miles of the 10 are disposed of. To this he says, The number of those Jews was much lessened within a little while after Strabo by an insurrection of the Alexandrians against them.
A great part of the City (sayes the Letter) was assigned to the Jews, so Strabo indefinitely as Josephus quotes him, others tell us more punctually, that their share was two of the five divisions; though many of them had their habitations in the other divisions, yet they had two 5th. parts intire to themselves; and this is I suppose the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 which Josephus sayes the Successors of Alexander, set apart for them; thus we see how 6 or 7 miles of the 10 are disposed of. To this he sayes, The number of those Jews was much lessened within a little while after Strabo by an insurrection of the Alexandrians against them.
I suppose he means by that slaughter of them which Josephus mentionsq, where 50000 were destroyed; but what were these to the vast number of Jews in Egypt, which Philo rsays amounted to no less than a million?
I suppose he means by that slaughter of them which Josephus mentionsq, where 50000 were destroyed; but what were these to the vast number of Jews in Egypt, which Philo r