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Address to the Greeks

Tatian

Chapter 37

About this work

Tatian attacks Greek claims to cultural and philosophical superiority, defends Christian teaching about God, creation, resurrection, and ethics, and argues for the antiquity of biblical wisdom.

Author: Tatian
Date: c. AD 165–175
Origin: Rome or the eastern Mediterranean
Genre: Apology

Testimony of the Phœnicians.

After the Chaldeans, the testimony of the Phœnicians is

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as

follows

.

There

were

among

them

three

men

,

Theodotus

,

Hypsicrates

,

and

Mochus

;

Chaitus

translated

their

books

into

Greek

,

and

also

composed

with

exactness

the

lives

of

the

philosophers

.

Now

,

in

the

histories

of

the

aforesaid

writers

it

is

shown

that

the

abduction

of

Europa

happened

under

one

of

the

kings

,

and

an

account

is

given

of

the

coming

of

Menelaus

into

Phœnicia

,

and

of

the

matters

relating

to

Chiramus

,

who

gave

his

daughter

in

marriage

to

Solomon

the

king

of

the

Jews

,

and

supplied

wood

of

all

kind

of

trees

for

the

building

of

the

temple

.

Menander

of

Pergamus

composed

a

history

concerning

the

same

things

.

But

the

age

of

Chiramus

is

somewhere

about

the

Trojan

war

;

but

Solomon

,

the

contemporary

of

Chiramus

,

lived

much

later

than

the

age

of

Moses

.

Notes

90
Called Hiram in our authorized translation.