(a) Tibullus, (b) Clemens Alexandrinus, and (c) Lucian (for I need not mention the Hebrews) that the Memory of the seven Days' Work was preserved, not only among the Greeks and Italians, by honouring the Seventh Day; but also (d) amongst the Celta and Indians, who all measured the Time by Weeks; as we learn from (e) Philostratus, (f) Dion Cassius, and Justin Martyr; and also (g) the most (a) Tibullus, &c.] "The Seventh Day is sacred to the "Jews." (b) Clemens Alexandrinus, &c.] Who in his Strom. V. quotes out of Hesiod," that the Seventh Day was sacred." And the like out of Homer and Callimachus. To which may be subjoined what Eusebius has taken out of Aristobulus, Book XIII. Chap. 12. Theophilus Antiochenus, Book XI. to Antolychus, concerning the Seventh Day, which is distinguished by all Men And Suetonius, in his Tiberius XXXII; Diogenes the Gram"marian uses to dispute at Rhodes upon the Sabbath Day." (The seventh Day of the Month ought not to be confounded with the last Day of the Week. See what John Selden has remarked upon this Subject, in his Book of the Laws of Nature and of Nations, Book III, Chap. 17, Le Clerc,) (c) Lucian, &c.] Who tells us in his Paralogist, "That " Boys were used to play on the seventh Day. (d) Amongst the Celtæ, &c.] As is evident by the Names of the Days among the different Nations of the Celta, viz. Germans, Gauls, and Britons. Holmoldus tells us the same of the Sclavonians, Book I. Chap. 48. (e) Philostratus, &c.] Book III, Chap. 13. speaking of the Indians. (f) Dion Cassius, &c.] Book XXXIII. The Day called Saturn's. Where he adds, that the Custom of computing the Time by Weeks, was derived from the Egyptians to all Mankind, and that this was not a new, but a very ancient Custom, Herodotus tells us in his Second Book; To which may be added Isidore concerning the Romans, Book V. Ch. 30, and 32. (g) The most ancient Names, &c.] See the Oracle, and Orpheus's Verses in Scaliger's Prolegomena to his Emendation of Times. (I suspect that the Foundation of Weeks was rather from the Seven Planets, than from the Creation of the World in Seven days. Le Clerc.) ancient ancient Names of the Day. The Egyptians tell us, that at first Men led their Lives (a) in great Simplicity, (b) their Bodies being naked, whence arose the Poet's Fiction of the Golden Age, famous among the Indians, (c) as Strabo remarks. (d) Maimonides takes Notice, that (e) the History of Adam, of (a) In great Simplicity, &c.] See what we have said of this Matter, Book II. Chap. I. Sect. xi. concerning the Right of War, and the Notes belonging to it. (b) Their Bodies being naked, &c.] Whose Opinion Diodo rus Siculus thus relates: "The first Men lived very hardy, "before the Conveniencies of Life were found out; being "accustomed to go naked, and wanting Dwellings and Fires, "and being wholly ignorant of the Food of civilized Na"tions." And Plato, in his Politics: "God their Governor fed them, being their Keeper; as Man, who is a more "divine Creature, feeds the inferior Creatures." And a little after: "They fed naked and without Garments in the open Air." And Dicearchus the Peripatetic, cited both by Porphyry, in his Fourth Book against eating living Creatures; and to the same sense by Varro, concerning Country Affairs: "The Ancients, who were nearest to the Gods, "were of an excellent Disposition, and led so good Lives, "that they were called a Golden Race." (c) As Strabo remarks, &c.] Book XV. where he brings in Calanus the Indian speaking thus: "Of old we met every "where with Barley, Wheat, and Meal, as we do now-a-days "with Dust. The Fountains flowed, some with Water, some " with Milk; and likewise some with Honey, some with "Wine, and some with Oil. But Men, through Fulness "and Plenty, fell into wickedness: which Condition Jupiter "abhorring, altered the State of Things, and ordered them a "Life of Labour." (d) Maimonides, &c.] In his Guide to the Doubting, Part III. Chap. 29. (e) The History of Adam, &c.] In those Places which Philo Biblius has translated out of Sanchuniathon. The Greek Word pwróyov, First born, is the same with the Hebrew Adam; and the Greek Word wv, Age, is the same with the Hebrew Word in Chavah, Ave. The first Men found out the Fruit of Trees. And in the most ancient Greek Mysteries, they cried out Eva, Eve, and at the same Time shewed a Serpent. of Eve, of the Tree, and of the Serpent, was extant among the Idolatrous Indians in his Time; And there are many (a) Witnesses in our Age, who testify that the same is still to be found amongst the Heathen dwelling in Peru, and the Philippine Islands, People belonging to the same India; the Name of Adam amongst the Brachmans; and that it was reckoned (b) Six Thousand Years since the Creation of the World, by those of Siam, (c) Berosus in his History of Chaldea, Manethos in his of Egypt, Hierom in his of Phoenicia, Histaus, Hecateus, Hillanicus in theirs of Greece, and Hesiod among the Poets; all assert that the Lives of those who descended from the first Men, were al Serpent. Which is mentioned by Heyschius, Clemens in his Exhortations, and Plutarch in the Life of Alexander. Chalcidius to Timæus, has these Words: "That as Moses says, God "forbad the first Man to eat the Fruit of those Trees, by "which the Knowledge of Good and Evil should steal into "their Minds." And in another Place: "To this the He"brews agree, when they say, that God gave to man a Soul by a divine Breath, which they call Reason, or a Rational 66 Soul; but to dumb Creatures, and wild Beasts of the Forest, one void of Reason: The living Creatures, and Beasts being, by the Command of God, scattered over the Face of the "Earth; amongst which was that Serpent, who by his evil "Persuasions deceived the first of Mankind." 66 (a) Witnesses in our Age, &c.] See amongst others Ferdinand Mendesius de Pinto. (b) Six Thousand Years, &c.] What Simplicius relates out of Porphyry, Comment XVI. upon Book II. concerning the Heavens, agrees exactly with this Number; that the Observations collected at Babylon, which Callisthenes sent to Aristotle, were to that Time clɔ ɔ ccc I. which is not far from the Time of the Deluge. (c) Berosus in his History, &c.] Josephus in the First Book, Chap. 4. of his Ancient History, quotes the Testimony of all these Writers, whose Books were extant in his Time; and besides these, Acusilaus, Euphonus, and Nicolaus Damascenus. Servius in his Notes upon the Eighth Book of Virgil's Eneid, remarks, that the People of Arcadia lived to three hundred Years. most most a thousand Years in Length; which is the less incredible, because the Historians of many Nations (particularly (a) Pausanias and (b) Philostratus amongst the Greeks, and (c) Pliny amongst the Romans) relate, that (d) Men's Bodies, upon opening (a) Pausanias, &c.] In his Laconics, he mentions the Bones of Men, of more than ordinary Bigness, which were shewn in the Temple of Esculapius at the City of Asepus: And in the first of his Eliacs, of a Bone taken out of the Sea, which aforetime was kept at Piso, and thought to have been one of Pelops's. (b) Philostratus, &c.] In the Beginning of his Heroics, he says, that many Bodies of Giants were discovered in Pallene, by Showers of Rain and Earthquakes. (c) Pliny, &c.] Book VII. Chap. 16. Upon the bursting of a Mountain in Crete by an Earthquake, there was "found a Body standing upright, which was reported by some "to have been the Body of Orion, by others the Body of "Eetion. Orestes's Body, when it was commanded by the "Oracle to be digged up, is reported to have been seven "Cubits long. And almost a thousand Years ago, the Poet "Homer continually complained that Men's Bodies were "less than of old." And Solinus, Chap. 1. "Were not all "who were born in that Age, less than their Parents? Aud "the Story of Orestes's Funeral testifies the Bigness of the "Ancients, whose Bones when they were digged up, in the Fifty-eighth Olympiad, at Tegea, by the Advice of the "Oracle, are related to have been seven Cubits in Length. "And other Writings, which give a credible Relation of "ancient Matters, affirm this, That in the War of Crete, "when the Rivers had been so high as to overflow and break "down their Banks, after the Flood was abated, upon the cleaving of the Earth there was found a human Body of threeand-thirty feet long; which L. Flaccus, the Legate, and "Metellus himself, being very desirous of seeing, were much "surprised, to have the Satisfaction of seeing, what they did "not believe when they heard." See Austin's Fifteenth Book, Chap. 11. of the City of God, concerning the Cheek Tooth of a Man, which he himself saw. (d) Men's Bodies, &c.] Josephus, Book V. Chap. 2. of his Ancient History: "There remain to this Day some of the "Race of the Giants, who, by Reason of the Bulk and Figure of their Bodies, so different from other Men, àre won "derful ing their Sepulchres, were found to be much larger in old Time. And (a) Catullus, after many of the Greeks, relates, that divine Visions were made to Men before their great and manifold Crimes did, as it were, hinder God, and (b) those Spirits that attend "derful to see or hear of: Their Bones are now shewn, "far exceeding the Belief of the Vulgar." Gabinius, in his History of Mauritania, said, that Antenus's Bones were found by Sertorius, which joined together were sixty Cubits long. Phlegon Trallianus, in his Ninth Chapter of Wonders, mentions the digging up of the Head of Ida, which was three Times as big as that of an ordinary Woman. And he adds also, that there were many Bodies found in Dalmatia, whose Arms exceeded sixteen Cubits. And the same Man relates out c Theopompus that there were found in the Cimmerian Bosphorus, a Heap of human Bodies twenty-four Cubits in Length. And there is extant a Book of the same Phlegon, concerning Long Life, which is worth reading. (That in many Places of old Time, as the present, there were Men of a very large Stature, or such as exceeded others, some few Feet, is not very hard to believe; but that they should all of them have been bigger, I can no more believe, than that the Trees were taller, or the Channels of the Rivers deeper. There is the same Proportion between all these, and Things of the like Kind now, as there was formerly, they answering to one another, so that there is no Reason to think they have undergone any Change. (See Theodore Rickius's Oration about Giants.) Le Clerc. (a) Catullus, &c.] In his Epithalamium on Peleus and Thetis : But when the Earth was stain'd with Wickedness Then Brethren vilely shed each other's Blood, And Parents ceas'd to mourn their Children's Death. (b) Those Spirits that altend him, &c.] Of this, see those excellent Things said by Plutarch in his Isis; Maximus Tyrius in his First and Sixteenth Dissertations, and Julian's Hymn to |