²⁵¹ Matt. xxiv. 21.

²⁵² en pasi toij spoudaioij kai arxaioij antigrafoij. This passage is interesting, as showing how very soon the autographs of the New Testament must have perished, and various readings crept into the mss.MSS; . of the canonical books.

²⁵³ That is, C into EI, according to Harvey, who considers the whole of this clause as an evident interpolation. It does not occur in the Greek here preserved by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., v. 8).

²⁵⁴ Rev. xxii. 19.

²⁵⁵ 1 Thess. v. 3.

²⁵⁶ Jer. viii. 16.

²⁵⁷ Rev. vii. 5-7. [The Danites (though not all) corrupted the Hebrew church and the Levitical priesthood, by image-worship, (Judg. xviii.), and forfeited the blessings of the old covenant.]

²⁵⁸ [A very pregnant passage, as has often been noted. But let us imitate the pious reticence with which this section concludes.]

²⁵⁹ Massuet here quotes Cicero and Ovid in proof of the sun being termed Titan. The Titans waged war against the gods, to avenge themselves upon Saturn.

²⁶⁰ Rev. xvii. 8.

²⁶¹ Matt. viii. 11.

²⁶² See the note, book iii. xx. 4.

²⁶³ Matt. xi. 40.

²⁶⁴ Eph. iv. 9.

²⁶⁵ Ps. lxxxvi. 23.

²⁶⁶ John xx. 17.

²⁶⁷ Eph. iv. 9.

²⁶⁸ John xx. 20, 27.

²⁶⁹ Ps. xxiii. 4.

²⁷⁰ Luke vi. 40.

²⁷¹ The five following chapters were omitted in the earlier editions, but added by Feuardentius. Most mss.MSS; ., too, did not contain them. It is probable that the scribes of the middle ages rejected them on account of their inculcating millenarian notions, which had been long extinct in the Church. Quotations from these five chapters have been collected by Harvey from Syriac and Armenian mss.MSS; . lately come to light.

²⁷² Or, "gradually to comprehend God."

²⁷³ Rom. viii. 19, etc.

²⁷⁴ Gen. xiii. 13, 14.

²⁷⁵ Gen. xiii. 17.

²⁷⁶ Acts. vii. 5; Heb. xi. 13.

²⁷⁷ Gen. xxiii. 11.

²⁷⁸ Gen. xv. 13.

²⁷⁹ Luke iii. 8.

²⁸⁰ Gal. iv. 28.

²⁸¹ Gal. iii. 16.

²⁸² Gal. iii. 6, etc.

²⁸³ Matt. v. 5.

²⁸⁴ Matt. xxvi. 27.

²⁸⁵ Ps. civ. 30.

²⁸⁶ Luke xiv. 12, 13.

²⁸⁷ Matt. xix. 29; Luke xviii. 29, 30.

²⁸⁸ Gen. xxvii. 27, etc.

²⁸⁹ Matt. xiii. 38.

²⁹⁰ Gen. xxvii. 28, 29.

²⁹¹ Gen. xxxi. 41.

²⁹² Gen. xxxiii. 3.

²⁹³ From this to the end of the section there is an Armenian version extant, to be found in the Spicil. Solesm. i. p. 1, edited by M. Pitra, Paris 1852, and which was taken by him from an Armenian ms. . in the Mechitarist Library at Venice, described as being of the twelfth century.

²⁹⁴ This word "true" is not found in the Armenian.

²⁹⁵ Or, following Arm. vers., "But if any one shall lay hold of an holy cluster."

²⁹⁶ The Arm. vers. is here followed; the old Latin reads, "Et reliqua autem poma."

²⁹⁷ [See pp. 151-154, this volume.]

²⁹⁸ Isa. xl. 6, etc.

²⁹⁹ Isa. xxvi. 19.

³⁰⁰ Ezek. xxxvii. 12, etc.

³⁰¹ Ezek. xxviii. 25, 26.

³⁰² Matt. iii. 9.

³⁰³ Jer. xxiii. 7, 6.

³⁰⁴ Isa. xxx. 25, 26.

³⁰⁵ Isa. lviii. 14.

³⁰⁶ Luke xii. 37, 38.

³⁰⁷ Rev. xx. 6.

³⁰⁸ Isa. vi. 11.

³⁰⁹ Dan. vii. 27.

³¹⁰ Dan. xii. 13.

³¹¹ Jer. xxxi. 10, etc.

³¹² See. iv. 8, 3.

³¹³ Matt. xii. 5.

³¹⁴ Isa. xxxi. 9, xxxii. 1.

³¹⁵ Isa. liv. 11-14.

³¹⁶ Isa. lxv. 18.

³¹⁷ Isa. vi. 11.

³¹⁸ Isa. xiii. 9.

³¹⁹ Isa. xxvi. 10.

³²⁰ Isa. vi. 12.

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