We are much indebted to the learned father Theophilus of Antioch: he had great knowledge; yet could not help giving way to this epidemical weakness. He mentions Noah as the same as Deucalion, which name was given him from calling people to righteousness: he used to say, δευτε καλει ὑμας ὁ θεος; and from hence, it seems, he was called Deucalion. Ad Antol. l. 3.
[469] Plato in Cratylo. p. 409.
[470] Suidas, Stephanus, Etymolog. Eustathius, &c.
So Coptus in Egypt, from κοπτειν.
[471] See Callimachus. vol. 2. Spanheim's not. in Hymn. in Del. v. 87. p. 438.
[472] Cumberland's Origines. p. 165. so he derives Goshen in the land of Egypt from a shower of rain. See Sanchon. p. 364.
[473] Hyde de Religione veterum Persarum. c. 2. p. 75.
[474] Genesis. c. 22. v. 20.
[475] Universal History, vol. 1. b. 1. p. 286. notes.
[476] Bochart. Geograph. Sacra. l. 1. c. 18. p. 443.