16.) Theodoret, (l.v.c.

22,) and Rufinus, (l.

ii.
c.

22.) Yet the last, who had been at Alexandria before and after the event, may deserve the credit of an original witness.] [Footnote 36: Gerard Vossius (Opera, tom.v.p.80, and de Idoloaltria, l.i.c.

29) strives to support the strange notion of the Fathers; that the patriarch Joseph was adored in Egypt, as the bull Apis, and the god Serapis.