SCRIPTISQUE EIDEM SUPPOSITIS. original: AND THE WRITINGS SUPPOSEDLY ATTRIBUTED TO HIM.

to destroy with all his might the argument of the Anti-Areopagites drawn from the silence of the Fathers of the first five centuries, especially Eusebius and Jerome. For in order to accomplish this, he appeals to the testimonies of the Fathers of the IV and V centuries, Gregory of Nazianzus, Isaac the Syrian, Juvenal of Jerusalem, and Andrew of Caesarea, on the grounds that they remembered this Dionysius and took some things from his writings. I wonder why he did not also add the Father of the III century, Dionysius of Alexandria, to whom, from the poorly understood words of Anastasius the Sinaite and Nicetas Acominatus, some, along with Maximus the Confessor and Baronius, attribute the Scholia on the Hierarchies of the Areopagite: although Abraham Echellensis, in his Annotations to Chapter XV of the Catalog of Ebed-Jesu, differs from them; yet he is no less hallucinating in that he attributes these Scholia to a certain John Dara, a bishop in Syria, a writer of the IV century, as he asserts: to whom, however, Joannes Morinus not only rendered this epoch doubtful through letters; but also in his Work on Sacred Ordinations, Part II, Annotation 22, On the Ordinations of the Syrians, p. 433 and following, he attacked it with many reasons and made it probable that said John of Dara wrote after the year 692 A.D. I wonder also why he did not add from the IV century John Chrysostom in his Oration on the Pseudo-Prophets, calling Dionysius the Areopagite the ouranou peteinen Bird of Heaven, because of his heavenly and without doubt divine writings, as Schelstratus loves to speak in his Apology, Chapter VII, article 2. I could indeed deflect all these arrows of Arnold, if I were to concede to the opinion of Pearson, who refers the age of this Pseudo-Dionysius to the IV century, with the famous Tenzel in the same place, p. 292. For these things are very distant from one another: Dionysius, whose writings are circulated, is already cited by the Fathers of the IV and V centuries; there-