Steven Avery
Administrator
Vigilius of Thapsus (Tapsensis)
Griesbach
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rro9AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA-702
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rro9AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA-705
Theophilus Lindsey - 1788
http://books.google.com/books?id=wiA3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19
Thus also the following history of recent facts will shew, in what different estimation this creed of Athanasius is held by some in high places in the church, than it was in Tillotlon’s days, by him, and others : and this, even after it has been still more clearly demonstrated not to have been composed by Athanasius, but drawn up long after his time, and put out under his name, most probably by one Vigilius Tapsensis; the same who first cited the spurious text of 1 John v. 7, as genuine; one who accustomed himself to put the names of learned men of former times to his works, and pass them off as their's; a practice, whatever his motive was for it, most highly to be condemned, tending to throw confusion into history, and to prevent our coming at certainty about any persons or things in former ages.
Thomas Belsham - 1805
https://books.google.com/books?id=9MkEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA67
Creed, falsely ascribed to St. Athanasius ... Vigilius Tapsensis, a notorious writer and forger of ancient writings and records, in the fifth century*
* He is supposed to have been the interpolater of the notorious text relating to the three heavenly witnesses. 1 John v. 7. See Griesbach on the Text.
Improved Version of the New Testament (1806)
https://books.google.com/books?id=y4pAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA563
Abner Kneeland - 1818
http://books.google.com/books?id=thNtMNKC30EC&pg=PA123
6. It is first cited by Vigilius Tapsensis, a Latin writer of no credit, in the latter end of the fifth century, and by him it is suspected to have been forged.
Oxlee - adds Fulgentius and Carthage
https://books.google.com/books?id=i_EDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA135
Nolan response
https://books.google.com/books?id=i_EDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA461
http://books.google.com/books?id=Xwg4sZ80GmcC&pg=PA184
we are instructed (2) how to dispose of the positive testimony of the Latin Church to the disputed verse, by the intervention of Vigilius Tapsensis. It is at length fortunately discovered that this father disposed that Church to receive the verse as authentic text, “by inserting it as the testimony of St. John, in several tracts," which he imposed upon them “under the names of Athanasius, Augustinus, and Idacius." CONTINUES
David Harrowar (1822)
comments on Theophilus Lindsey - refutes
A Defence of the Trinitatian System, in Twenty-four Sermons: In which the Leading Controversial Points Between Trinitarians and Anti-Trinitarians are Stated and Discussed
http://books.google.com/books?id=vqAOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142
It is insinuated however, by Mr. Lindsey, that Vigillius forged it himself; saying, that he is “the same person, who, most probably, forged the creed, which goes about under the name of Athanasius.” This retreat is the best that he could make from the position he had taken. Mr. Lindsey, however, has contradicted my opponent, by placing the first use of the text, three hundred years beyond his statement, Which was made in unqualified terms. Seeing that men of the same school disagree with each other, we may he justified in thinking, that other writers may be right in differing from them all. In the historical testimony which I haw adduced in defence of the text, Vigillius was mentioned; and it is supported, we see, by high Anti-Trinitarian authority. We may venture to believe, therefore, that it was quoted also by Jerom, in the beginning of the fifth century—by Augustine in the fourth —by his cotemporaries, Marcus Celedensis and Phebadius —by Cyprian and Tertullian in the third—and by Clemens, in the second century. We may rely on this evidence, until it can be removed by solid proof.
John Wilson - 1848
http://books.google.com/books?id=TfQ41TdITZ0C&pg=PA129
. It is first cited by Vigilius Tapsensis, a Latin writer of no credit, in the latter end of the fifth century; and by him it is supposed
to have been forged.
Victor of Vita
Richard Simon
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ia01_pLxGr8C&pg=PA179
Griesbach
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rro9AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA-702
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rro9AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA-705
Theophilus Lindsey - 1788
http://books.google.com/books?id=wiA3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19
Thus also the following history of recent facts will shew, in what different estimation this creed of Athanasius is held by some in high places in the church, than it was in Tillotlon’s days, by him, and others : and this, even after it has been still more clearly demonstrated not to have been composed by Athanasius, but drawn up long after his time, and put out under his name, most probably by one Vigilius Tapsensis; the same who first cited the spurious text of 1 John v. 7, as genuine; one who accustomed himself to put the names of learned men of former times to his works, and pass them off as their's; a practice, whatever his motive was for it, most highly to be condemned, tending to throw confusion into history, and to prevent our coming at certainty about any persons or things in former ages.
Thomas Belsham - 1805
https://books.google.com/books?id=9MkEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA67
Creed, falsely ascribed to St. Athanasius ... Vigilius Tapsensis, a notorious writer and forger of ancient writings and records, in the fifth century*
* He is supposed to have been the interpolater of the notorious text relating to the three heavenly witnesses. 1 John v. 7. See Griesbach on the Text.
Improved Version of the New Testament (1806)
https://books.google.com/books?id=y4pAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA563
Abner Kneeland - 1818
http://books.google.com/books?id=thNtMNKC30EC&pg=PA123
6. It is first cited by Vigilius Tapsensis, a Latin writer of no credit, in the latter end of the fifth century, and by him it is suspected to have been forged.
Oxlee - adds Fulgentius and Carthage
https://books.google.com/books?id=i_EDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA135
Nolan response
https://books.google.com/books?id=i_EDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA461
http://books.google.com/books?id=Xwg4sZ80GmcC&pg=PA184
we are instructed (2) how to dispose of the positive testimony of the Latin Church to the disputed verse, by the intervention of Vigilius Tapsensis. It is at length fortunately discovered that this father disposed that Church to receive the verse as authentic text, “by inserting it as the testimony of St. John, in several tracts," which he imposed upon them “under the names of Athanasius, Augustinus, and Idacius." CONTINUES
David Harrowar (1822)
comments on Theophilus Lindsey - refutes
A Defence of the Trinitatian System, in Twenty-four Sermons: In which the Leading Controversial Points Between Trinitarians and Anti-Trinitarians are Stated and Discussed
http://books.google.com/books?id=vqAOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142
It is insinuated however, by Mr. Lindsey, that Vigillius forged it himself; saying, that he is “the same person, who, most probably, forged the creed, which goes about under the name of Athanasius.” This retreat is the best that he could make from the position he had taken. Mr. Lindsey, however, has contradicted my opponent, by placing the first use of the text, three hundred years beyond his statement, Which was made in unqualified terms. Seeing that men of the same school disagree with each other, we may he justified in thinking, that other writers may be right in differing from them all. In the historical testimony which I haw adduced in defence of the text, Vigillius was mentioned; and it is supported, we see, by high Anti-Trinitarian authority. We may venture to believe, therefore, that it was quoted also by Jerom, in the beginning of the fifth century—by Augustine in the fourth —by his cotemporaries, Marcus Celedensis and Phebadius —by Cyprian and Tertullian in the third—and by Clemens, in the second century. We may rely on this evidence, until it can be removed by solid proof.
John Wilson - 1848
http://books.google.com/books?id=TfQ41TdITZ0C&pg=PA129
. It is first cited by Vigilius Tapsensis, a Latin writer of no credit, in the latter end of the fifth century; and by him it is supposed
to have been forged.
Victor of Vita
Richard Simon
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ia01_pLxGr8C&pg=PA179
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