¹⁷¹ kai\ w9j eu0dokimou=nte/j ge o#son ou0k e9gkatlei/ponto. The negative particle (ou0k) is wanting in the editions of Hoeschel and Spencer, but is found in the Royal, Basil, and Vatican mss. Guietus would delete o#son (which emendation has been adopted in the translation), while Boherellus would read o#soi instead. - Ruaeus.

¹⁷² [Josephus, Antiquities, b. xi. cap. viii.]

¹⁷³ gohtei/a.

¹⁷⁴ to\n kunoke/falon.

¹⁷⁵ o#ti krei=tton eu#romen.

¹⁷⁶ Cf. Isa. ix. 6. [according to Sept. See vol. i. pp. 223, 236, this series.]

¹⁷⁷ [See p. 380, supra.]

¹⁷⁸ [Gen. vi. 2. S.]

¹⁷⁹ [See Dr. Lee on The Inspiration of Holy Scripture, p. 383, where it is pointed out that the primitive Church was fully aware of the difficulties urged against the historic accuracy of the Four Gospels. Dr. Lee also notes that the culminating sarcasm of Gibbon's famous fifteenth chapter "has not even the poor merit of originality." S.]

¹⁸⁰ to\n e0r0r9wme/non bi/on.

¹⁸¹ kai\ to\ mhde\n tugxa/nonta.

¹⁸² e9autw=n. Guietus would read au0tw=n, to agree with tw=n e0kklhsiw=n.

¹⁸³ Instead of ta\j a0po\ th=j didaskali/aj tou= 'Ihsou= a9forma/j, Boherellus conjectures tou\j ... a0formw=ntaj, which has been adopted in the translation.

¹⁸⁴ tw=n a0po\ mega/lhj e0kklhsi/aj.

¹⁸⁵ kate/pausen.

¹⁸⁶ a0napausa/menoj.

¹⁸⁷ sabbatismou=.

¹⁸⁸ th\n e0kei=qen e0pa/nodon.

¹⁸⁹ fugh/n.

¹⁹⁰ 2 Cor. iii. 15.

¹⁹¹ a0spasame/noij.

¹⁹² 2 Tim. i. 3.

¹⁹³ e0k kataskeuh=j.

¹⁹⁴ a0po\ tou= plh/qouj.

¹⁹⁵ Sibullista/j.

¹⁹⁶ 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13.

¹⁹⁷ Tit. iii. 10, 11.

¹⁹⁸ Ki/rkaj kai\ ku/khqra ai0mu/la.

¹⁹⁹ Cf. 1 Tim. iv. 1-3.

²⁰⁰ a0koh=j dausth/ria. Cf. note in Benedictine ed.

²⁰¹ ai0ni/gmata. Cf. note in Benedictine ed.

²⁰² skanda/lou.

²⁰³ e0corxoume/naj kai\ sofistri/aj.

²⁰⁴ Cf. 2 Cor. x. 3-5.

²⁰⁵ [Irenaeus, vol. i. p. 353.]

¹ a0nata/sewj.

² polu\ de\ to\ h#meron e0a\n . . . oi[oj te/ tij te/ tij ge/nhtai e0pistre/fein.

³ polla\ xai/rein fra/santej.

⁴ a0ndrapo/doij.

⁵ kai\ mh\ oi[oi/ te katakou/ein th=j e0n fra/sei lo/gwn kai\ ta/cei a0paggellome/nwn a0kolouqi/aj, m o/nwn e0fro/ntisan tw=n a0natrafe/entwn en lo/goij kai\ maqh/uasin.

⁶ e0nei=don.

⁷ [See Dr. Burton's Bampton Lectures On the Heresies of the Apostolic Age, pp. 198, 529. S.]

⁸ filolo/gwn.

⁹ 1 Cor. ii. 4, 5.

¹⁰ Such is the reading of the Septuagint version. The Masoretic text has: "The Lord gave a word; of them who published it there was a great host." [Cf. Ps. lxviii. 11. S.]

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