THE CONTENT S. PART I. F Mr. Voltaire's injuries to Jofephus. page 1 Of his faying in chapter twenty-fourth of his Philofophy of History, that the Jews called their city Hershalaïm, and that the Greeks altered it to Jerufalem, according to Jofephus. SECT. II. 2 Of his faying in chapter twenty-fifth of the same, that Jofephus owns Minos received his laws from a god; where alfo Dr. Middleton's affertion, that he does not infist on any divine authority of Mofes, nay, that he had no inward conviction of it, is confidered. SECT. III. 5 Of his lame and defective account of Jofephus's prediction to Vefpafian in chapter thirty-first. SECT. IV. 14 Of his misrepresentations in chapter forty-fifth; where he affirms that Jofephus makes Daniel governor of three hundred and fixty provinces, and Zorobabel a Jewish flave, an intimate friend of the king of kings, and very imperfectly relates his account of Darius's queftion, and of the answers of his academy of wits. SECT. V. 16 Of his falfhoods in his detail of Jofephus's flory of Jaddua and Alexander, in chapter forty-fixth; to gether with his unjust reflection on Rollin. SECT. VI. 23 Of his assertion, that Josephus does not include the book of Job among the writings of the Hebrew canon, in chapter forty-seventh. SECT. VII. 30 Of his concluding, in chapter forty-ninth, that the Jews did not call Jacob, Hrael, nor themselves Ifraelites, till they were flaves in Chaldaea, from a paffage of Philo.-And of his faying, that Josephus owns the practice of circumcifion was learned from the Egyptians, agreeably to the teftimony of Herodotus.-That he ascribes their being unknown by the Greeks, to their omiffion to cultivate letters.---That he makes the tranflators of the law into Greek, tell fome ftories to Philadelphus, which he does not.---And of his wrong in : Of his mifrepresentations of fcripture, for which he may plead the authority of the Vulgate version. 50 SEC. I. Of his faying in chapter thirty-fourth of the Philofophy of Hiftory, that the fecond temple is represented in the book of Efdras, to have had only three rows of rough ftone. SEC. II. Of his reprefenting in chapter fortieth of the fame, and in other pieces, that Mofes commandéd the Levites to kill twenty-three thoufand, on occafion of the golden calf. 51 53 SEC. III. Of his making, in chapter forty-third, God direct Ezekiel to cover his bread with human excrement, and thereafter with the excrement of oxen. 58 SEC. IV. Of his faying in the fame chapter, that the Lord threatens by Amos, that the cows of Samaria fhall be put into the caldron. 64 SEC. V. Of his inference from certain pfalms, that the Jews were of a fanguinary difpofition; and of his mifquoting one paffage, and perverting another, in their Pfalter, to prove that they were a carnal people, in chapter forty-fourth. 66 SEC. VI. Of his affirming in his Treatife on Toleration, that Ezekiel fpeaks of pigmies, perfons not above a cubit high. SEC. VII. That the Vulgate translation favours these accounts, which Mr. Voltaire hath given, is no fufficient apology for his fairness and candour. 83 CHA P. II. 80 Of his misrepresentations of fcripture, for which he cannot plead the authority of any tranflation. 89 SEC. I. Of his faying that the Jews are reproached for copulation with he and fhe-goats in the defert, and forbidden the fame, in chapter fecond of his Philosophy of History. 99 SEC. II. Of his making Jephtha and Jeremiah ac 98 knowledge the divinity of Melcom and Chamos, in chapter fifth of his Philosophy of History, and in other works. SEC. III. Of his afferting there and elsewhere, that the Jews, for forty years in the defert, worshipped no other God than idol deities. SEC. IV. Of his faying also, in chapter fifth of the 105 was the prophet of another God,—that Jeremiah, Ifaiah, &c. were ill-treated, because it was difficult to distinguish between falfe and true pretenders to the prophetic character,-that Hofea declares the prophets fools,----that the prophets treated one another as visionaries, there being no other method to separate the true from the falfe, but by waiting for the accomplishment of the pre- SEC. XVI. Of his ill-founded reflexion in the fame chapter, that Elifha's reply to Benhadad's fervants was equivocal, That he might recover, but that SEC. XVII. Of his faying that 'little innocents' were devoured at Bethel for words which they faid to Elifha in laughing.'----That Ifaiah walked three years quite naked in Jerufalem.----That Jeremiah was only fourteen years old when he was em- ployed as a prophet, and that he prophefied in favour of Nebuchadnezzar.---And of a mistake in his account of God's order to Hofea. SEC. XVIII. Of his enumeration, in chapter forty- seventh, of popular prejudices, to which the facred writers conformed,---That the Scripture calls the rainbow the ark of God,---That Mofes erected a brazen ferpent, a God whofe look cured,----That Christ fays, new wine fhould never be put into old casks,---That Paul fays, the feed is not quick- ened, except it die,----and that Chrift grants, the Pharifees difpoffeffed devils. SEC. XIX. Animadverfions on his forty-eighth chap- Satan is a Chaldaean word, and the Arimanius of SEC. XX. Of his afferting in the same chapter, that fome have imagined Enoch left a written history of fallen angels,---That the falfe Enoch is cited by St. Jude,---and that the book of Enoch and Ge- nefis of God with the daughters of men, and in the race of giants their iffue. SEC. XXI. Of his faying in the forty-ninth chapter of the fame work, that the Jews, according to their own confeffion, were not circumcifed till the time of Jofhua; upon which occafion alfo, the affertion by this writer and others, that the Jews borrowed circumcifion from the Egyptians, SEC. XXII. Of his affertion in his Philofophical Dic- tionary, that it was cuftomary among the patri- Peter's conduct at Antioch, in the fame work. 327 SEC. XXIV. Of his false relation there of Peter's behaviour to Ananias and his wife, and his cen- fures thereof, together with the observation he a- fcribes to Erafmus, that the head of the Chriftian religion began his apostleship by denying Jefus SEC. XXV. Of his account, in the fame piece, un- der the article Refurrection, of James's advice to Paul about obferving all the ceremonies in the temple, that he might perfuade every person he |