Theological Dissertation on the Theologoumena of Macarius Magnes

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The very inscription Ἀποκριτικῶν Apocriticus/The Answerer testifies that MACARIUS MAGNES wrote an apology of the Gospel against the slanders of the Gentiles; since FRANC. TVRRIANVS expresses the Greek title of this work thus: 7) "As Magnes the most ancient writer says in the third book of the apologies concerning the Gospel to Theosthenes." And we find that he also occasionally reconciled, among other things, such discrepancies of the Evangelists objected to by the enemies of the Gospel in that work, and not unsuccessfully solved the most difficult knots that still today torment the minds of the learned. An example of this is provided by those things which FRANC. TVRRIANVS in Defense for the Canons of the Apostles and Epistles of the Pontiffs Lib. II. cap. 3. p. m. 120. b. 8), and from him ALB. FABRICIVS in his Selection of arguments and Syllabus of Writers on the truth of the Christian religion p. 65., have brought forth from our MACARIUS MAGNES for reconciling the words of the Evangelists: "Nay, an example of the Evangelists is also added here, (these are the words of TVRRIANVS 9) who at times did not take the name from the very truth of the matter, but from the custom and opinion of the common people, is testified by MAGNETES, a most ancient writer

of the supposed disagreement in the Gospels concerning the resurrection. I see that this passage has already been alleged by RICH. SIMON in his Critical History of the N. T., Vol. III, p. 89. Therefore, after Eusebius, HIERONYMVS answered in the same manner, l. c. "But we think the name of ISAIAH was added by the fault of the Scribes, which we can also prove in other places. And indeed in most of the corrected Codices it is not read 'in Isaiah the prophet,' but 'in the prophets'."

7) in Apologetic Scholia on the Apostolic Constitutions edited in Greek, Venice 1563. 4. p. m. 132.
8) edition Lutetia, at the house of Seb. Nivellius, 1573. 8.
9) It seemed necessary to append this connection of the words of TVRRIANVS, overlooked by the blessed Dn. FABRICIVS l. c., from the book of Turrianus himself, since Turrianus at any rate abused this testimony of Magnes for the defense of Pope Anacletus against the Magdeburg Centuriators, and to palliate the error