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Chapter XXVIII.—Musanus and His Writings.
And as
for Musanus,1321
| 1321 Of
this Musanus, we know only what Eusebius tells us here, for Jerome
(de vir. ill. 31) and Theodoret (Hær. Fab. I. 21)
simply repeat the account of Eusebius. It is clear from Eusebius’
language, that he had not himself seen this work of Musanus; he had
simply heard of it. Here, and in chap. 21, Eusebius assigns the
activity of Musanus to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, making him a
contemporary of Melito, Apolinarius, Irenæus, &c. But in the
Chron. he is put much later. The Armenian version, under the
year of Abr. 2220 (the eleventh year of Septimius), has the entry
Musanus noster scriptor cognoscebatur. Jerome, under the same
year (2220 of Abr., but twelfth year of Severus) has Musanus
nostræ filosofiæ scriptor agnoscitur; while Syncellus,
under the year of Abr. 2231 (fourth year of Caracalla) has Μουσιανὸς
ἐκκλησιαστικὸς
συγγραφευς
ἐγνωρίζετο. All of them, therefore, speak of Musanus (or Musianus) as
a writer, but do not specify any of his works. The dates in the
Chron. (whichever be taken as original) and in the
History are not mutually exclusive; at the same time it is clear
that Eusebius was not working upon the same information in the two
cases. We have no means of testing the correctness of either
statement. | whom we have mentioned among the
foregoing writers, a certain very elegant discourse is extant, which
was written by him against some brethren that had gone over to the
heresy of the so-called Encratites,1322
| 1322 On Tatian and the Encratites, see the next chapter. | which had
recently sprung up, and which introduced a strange and pernicious
error. It is said that Tatian was the author of this false
doctrine.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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