Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">On the plagiarizing of the dogmas of the philosophers from the Hebrews,\r\nwe shall treat a little afterwards. But first, as due order demands,\r\nwe must now speak of the epoch of Moses, by which the philosophy of\r\nthe Hebrews will be demonstrated beyond all contradiction to be the\r\nmost ancient of all wisdom. This has been discussed with accuracy by\r\nTatian in his book <i>To the Greeks</i>, and by Casian in the first\r\nbook of his <i>Exegetics</i>. Nevertheless our commentary demands that\r\nwe too should run over what has been said on the point. Apion, then,\r\nthe grammarian, surnamed Pleistonices, in the fourth book of <i>The\r\nEgyptian Histories</i>, although of so hostile a disposition towards\r\nthe Hebrews, being by race an Egyptian, as to compose a work against\r\nthe Jews, when referring to Amosis king of the Egyptians, and his\r\nexploits, adduces, as a witness, Ptolemy of Mendes. And his remarks\r\nare to the following effect: Amosis, who lived in the time of the\r\nArgive Inachus, overthrew Athyria, as Ptolemy of Mendes relates in his\r\n<i>Chronology</i>. Now this Ptolemy was a priest; and setting forth\r\nthe deeds of the Egyptian kings in three entire books, he says, that\r\nthe exodus of the Jews from Egypt, under the conduct of Moses, took\r\nplace while Amosis was king of Egypt. Whence it is seen that Moses\r\nflourished in the time of Inachus. And of the Hellenic states, the most\r\nancient is the Argolic, I mean that which took its rise from Inachus,\r\nas Dionysius of Halicarnassus teaches in his <i>Times</i>. And younger\r\nby forty generations than it was Attica, founded by<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_422\">[422]</span> Cecrops, who was\r\nan aboriginal of double race, as Tatian expressly says; and Arcadia,\r\nfounded by Pelasgus, younger too by nine generations; and he, too, is\r\nsaid to have been an aboriginal. And more recent than this last by\r\nfifty-two generations, was Pthiotis, founded by Deucalion. And from\r\nthe time of Inachus to the Trojan war twenty generations or more are\r\nreckoned; let us say, four hundred years and more. And if Ctesias says\r\nthat the Assyrian power is many years older than the Greek, the exodus\r\nof Moses from Egypt will appear to have taken place in the forty-second\r\nyear of the Assyrian empire,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_991\" id=\"FNanchor_991\">[991]</a> in the thirty-second year of the\r\nreign of Belochus, in the time of Amosis the Egyptian, and of Inachus\r\nthe Argive. And in Greece, in the time of Phoroneus, who succeeded\r\nInachus, the flood of Ogyges occurred; and monarchy subsisted in Sicyon\r\nfirst in the person of Ægialeus, then of Europs, then of Telches; in\r\nCrete, in the person of Cres. For Acusilaus says that Phoroneus was\r\nthe first man. Whence, too, the author of <i>Phoronis</i> said that\r\nhe was “the father of mortal men.” Thence Plato in the <i>Timæus</i>,\r\nfollowing Acusilaus, writes: “And wishing to draw them out into a\r\ndiscussion respecting antiquities, he<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_992\" id=\"FNanchor_992\">[992]</a> said that he ventured to\r\nspeak of the most remote antiquities of this city<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_993\" id=\"FNanchor_993\">[993]</a> respecting\r\nPhoroneus, called the first man, and Niobe, and what happened after the\r\ndeluge.” And in the time of Phorbus lived Actæus, from whom is derived\r\nActaia, Attica; and in the time of Triopas lived Prometheus, and Atlas,\r\nand Epimetheus, and Cecrops of double race, and Ino. And in the time\r\nof Crotopus occurred the burning of Phaethon, and the deluge<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_994\" id=\"FNanchor_994\">[994]</a> of\r\nDeucalion; and in the time of Sthenelus, the reign of Amphictyon, and\r\nthe arrival of Danaus in the Peloponnesus; and under Dardanus happened\r\nthe building of Dardania, whom, says Homer,</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXI. THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF FAR HIGHER ANTIQUITY THAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GREEKS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_994","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-750"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c3f67e0a5d5d0c3be195ef3b8806b89b92495d83398b001f50a866dd79369e19","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_994","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. 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